 إنه الحمد لله نحمده للسعر والسقوة ويقول الله ينشفوا يام فتنى ورسل يأتي عملنا ومن يكفي بنا فترى من بنا وبيهن فترى هنيرا وأجل والله إلا هفن الله بحلوله لشركة وأشهدوا أننا محملاً أبهوا في ورسوله يا إله لننا من تقلواها حقوا تفقات المبارات المفنية إلا وانتن سيمون يا إله الناس فتقوا ربقهم الذين خلقتوا من نفسه واحدة وخلقوا بالهاز وجهة وبثوا منهم يجاني كثيرا ونساء واتقوا الله الذي تساءلوا ليه بقى أعمل ما الله كان عليك مراقيه يا إله لنناقلوا افتقوا الله وكونوا قولاً سهيدا اسمش لكم عادا لكم ويكفي لكم بربكم وليت إلاها أخبركم ورسولكم وفقاً دفازاً فضل عمينا أما بعد فتننا أصدق الحديث بطاب الله أخبركم الحجي حبنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وشباً أموني محتثاتها وكل محتثة البلعة وكل برأة من ضلالة وكل ضلالة دمي كنا أقوم برئة وشكراً لكم ورسولكم ورسولكم ورسولكم يجب أن نعرف العالم أكثر مهمًا بما يفعله وأنه يجب أن يفعله بما يجب أن يكون أكثر مهمًا أكثر مهمًا بأي شخص أكثر أكثر مهمًا كما كانوا مدينة أو أكثر مهمًا وإن الله سبحانه وتعالى حتى لذلك أمام شخص كذلك حتى فعلت محمد الصلى الله عليه وسلم أن يصبح المسلمين وأن يؤكدوا للأصفل بإمكانه أنفس يكون كما يعتقد أنه هو أهم الشيئ وعلى الله سبحانه وتعالى ومثلهم في المساعدة فهي ذهبوا من إدينة أنفسهم ومع مدينة ليس أنهم قد تلعبونها ولكن ما أهم هو كانت تفتحهم الله ومفتحهم من المساعدة ومع المساعدة وعلى الله سبحانه وتعالى ومع المساعدة ومن الموقع أن نعيش في هذه العام و والأشياء التهديوة again is something which has become very crucial. و هناك in any thing there are a lot of talk of what is called identity politics going on و امريكا اه If America is a place whose identity就劫 roles not only as a country اي دمانكوسي اي place where people were expected to live free but a country that defined itself on the basis of racial discrimination of racial differentiation but we have today even more complicated was more complicated than even racial identity politics but gender identity politics exist as well to the extent that there are those who believe that you can just simply change your sex by thinking it that if you wake up this morning and you are biologically a man and you think that you're a woman then that's what you are today a vice versa but at any rate don't point being that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ he came into the world he came into Mecca and Arabia and revolutionized their sense of identity and one of the things that Islam is known for is for what is sometimes called its radical monotheism it's our heed it's our heed Islam is not only opposed to the worship of physical idols but Islam is concerned with anything that the human being will attach it in her heart to which is other than the one who deserves the attachment of their hearts the creator of all so this is why the Quran talks about how an individual can take their awa as their ila their lusts or their will as their guide because the Islamic monotheism is radical it is something revolutionary something that when it enters into any given society if it comes in this pure fashion it revolutionizes society it changes people it changes society it makes us not only look to ourselves and become selfish because Islam is not a selfish religion rather Islam is concerned about everybody that is about honoring God but also aren't honoring the neighbors that in the Quran when Allah speaks about this umla and what makes it the best of umla the best of communities he mentions that that that you enjoy what is good you forbid what is wrong and you believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but that's what makes you the best of umla because you begin with enjoying good if you're forbidding wrong but what is this good what is that who defines what that is the Muslim believes that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defines the good and he defines the good that which is bad Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala determines that even if we may we ourselves may be able to perceive the general harm that something may bring to us or the general good or benefit that something may come to us if we indulge in it just because we perceive that doesn't make the actual thing good or evil because sometimes there are some things that are good in the beginning but in long term they're bad or they're bad in the beginning but in the long term they're good there's hardship that comes from not eating and drinking during the daytime but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala didn't consider that to be an evil if anything considered it to be a good we fast among the Ramadan but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us the criteria on the first of Mecca we had a conquest of Mecca the Prophet ﷺ we stood up and gave a speech and this is what he said oh people, oh men Allah has rid you of the vain glory of the pre-Islamic days and your magnification or their magnification of their fathers men are of two types people are of two types one type of person is one who is righteous upright and has value in the sight of God and the other is a wicked person who is wretched who is insignificant in God's sight all of you or each of you is from Adam and Allah created Adam from dirt now begin this way of course because I'm leaving it up to something and the most important question I think that I wanted to was the question of the value of being a Muslim what value does being a Muslim have in our time when we think about the ideas of identity what sort of identity do you have what is the most important ask of your identity what is the value of being a Muslim is a Muslim anything that a person who calls him or himself a Muslim says it is and we say no Islam is not a culture Islam is not a race Islam is a religion and you can't just decide what Islam is or any given day Islam is what it is I wanted to tell a story but after reciting a verse from Surah Al-A'ram Allah SWT says he said he said recite to them the story or the news of the one we gave our signs to and then he was stripped of it and then Satan was given power over him and later he was among the Muslim those who are Muslim well I'll share now if we had willed we would have lifted him up with them meaning these signs and I'll come back to talk about what this is a reference to ولكنه أفضل واتبع حواه however he cleaned to the earth and followed his desire and his will فمثاله يلهف أو تفرقه يلهف أن تفرقه if you place something on his back to carry it'll just put its tongue out in a patent and if you leave it or you put anything on his back it'll put his tongue out in a patent ذلكة المثاله ومثالهم قوم الأدينة شكرا لك that is the similarity of those who rely those who don't believe فقصص وقصصا لعلهم يتفكرون. لذلك الله يقول. لذلك يخبرون السؤال. لذلك يتفكرون. لذلك يتفكرون. المفصلين يقول. يخبرون بعض الأشياء. أشياء about this verse in terms of who is it is a reference to. Who is this person that Allah gave his signs and he was stripped of them. Who is this person? The majority of them say that this particular person was a man from the children of Israel by the name of بالعام ابن بعغورة. بالعام ابن بعغورة. According to one story بالعام ابن بعغورة was a follow of Musa A.S. And Allah had given him knowledge of the greatest name. Now the greatest name was a name specific and hidden from most people that for those who discover what that is of Allah's then if they call on Allah with that name Allah will give them whatever they want and anytime that they want. You will be that you will be an individual whose prayers are always answered immediately. And بالعام ابن بعغورة was a wali in that sense. That he was saintly in that sense because he was from the family of Mood A.S. And so Musa A.S. according to this first story he sends بالعام to the king of Median calling him inviting him to the way of Allah but the king seduced by بالعام by offering him lands and بالعام accepted and he left the dean of Musa into the dean of the king that's one version of the account of بالعام. The other more popular account of بالعام is that the بالعام was from the people of Areeha of Jericho and we know this story in the Quran when Allah spent time inside it after Musa A.S. had brought the children out of Batnich and Allah had asked them to go into a town and to fight the people and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will give them inheritance of that land and they refuse to say No They are from Jehbatin and they are from Jehbatin that there are some these massive these giant these people there right and so because of Allah He punished them to wander in the desert for 40 years but I was amongst these people but He was a believer in spite of that from the people of the book and so Musa A.S. according to one one version and another version Nusha Ibn Nuh who actually the prophet who came after Musa A.S. had come to to liberate or to gain to acquire what Allah سبحانه وتعالى had promised the chosen of this idea naturally the people of of Ar-iha-Jaraco seeing these massive numbers of people coming they're going to get ready to fight because this is the type of world that they existed back then that if you didn't know these people they didn't have treaties and people would just get gotten that was the way that it worked but at any rate they're on their way the people see and hear that Musa A.S. is coming and so they go in appeal to Ba'a knowing that He was in an individual when He asked Allah He talked to Allah for something that Allah gives it to Him and they asked Ba'a prayed against Moses prayed against Musa A.S. asked Allah to destroy Him and destroy the army Ba'a of course was uneasy about this he said how could I do this this is God's messenger coming and I can't pray against God's messenger so He He turned to Allah according to what am I expecting in the story He makes a du'a and expects a response and He receives a response and the responses that don't fight against Musa A.S. the people they are uneasy He tells the people no I can't do anything here the people they insist and insist and they offer him gift after gift after gift and so His wife suggests to him to ask Allah again to see what He says so He again He turns and asks Allah about what He should do this time He doesn't receive a response and once He tells those around Him about it they say well this has to be a sign that if Allah didn't tell you know that what's being is okay right so but I am He goes out to the battlefield and He starts to pray against Musa A.S. and His people but Allah does not allow for His tongue to speak the words or the prayers of the prayers that would be against Musa A.S. but actually every time we try to make a prayer against Musa the prayer was made against His own people and when He tried to pray for His people they would be in the favor of the people of Musa A.S. and as a result of this and because of His cleaning to the earth and His His heart being attached to wealth Allah سبحانه وتعالى قرار this this sign his sign from knowledge of the greatest name and his his sense of or sort of the status of of same-hood now I mention all of this because I think one of the lessons we should learn from the story is that that Allah سبحانه وتعالى that He will test all of us to see where our hearts are as He is now with many of the believers that He is testing us and we continue to test this and just because we see ourselves as Muslims we may not actually be as committed to this book as we should be there was a time there have been times from ancient times there have been people who would say that okay but prayer is enough that's all we need it might be a shaffer it might be some so people say all we need is the Quran we don't need the Hadith but I'm afraid that we're living in a time now where many Muslims they added to that you know we don't need the Quran anymore we don't even need the Quran right or anything in the Quran that's problematic problematic then let's be at the toss inside find a way to make some claim about it or at least we just cherry pick present the books I'm fine with these verses and with those other verses I'm fine with the Prophet he predicted this this is similar to what we find amongst the Christians amongst the Jews the attitude with their own books you know and the Prophet said لتتبيعون سنة لما كان قبلكم حضر القدوة حتى لدخل لدخل طموه that you will indeed follow the ways of those who came before you exactly identical to them up to the point that if one of them were to go into a school that you would follow you will follow them in tune كُنَّا مَنْ هُنْ يَعَرَسُمُ اللَّهِ أَلْ يَهُونْ بَنَّا سَعَرًا they said who are these people mentioned by Allah the Jews and the Christians call us a man he said who else am I talking about but they talked about this and sort of attitude that Muslims have with the Book of Allah how much do we even read the Book of Allah سبحانه و بِالسعاره do you even know was there but what we have today what I've noticed I feel it's become very dangerous is that many Muslims seem to feel that I'm just simply a Muslim if I say I am or I can define as found and Muslims anyway that I want to and and as long as I call myself a Muslim then I should be okay so instead of me rejecting the Quran outright and openly what I do is I try to redefine what a Muslim is when I actually set the chain to definition of a Muslim seeking that and doing so that Allah سبحانه و تعالى is not going to hold me accountable for rejecting His Book for rejecting His Book that we have we live in a situation or a time when you have Muslims making certain things lawful on lawful and vice versa you find many Muslims who are pro-LGBTQ but they're anti-Polition and you may have an issue with Polition but it's really interesting in how something was clearly Quran and the Quran Muslims themselves are advocating for it and they're against the opposite which Allah سبحانه و تعالى clearly allows under the right conditions that we find people saying they don't want to feel different between a man and woman they say Allah سبحانه و تعالى what can you say the males are like the females and we're not going to talk about issues of superiority but there's a difference between the two you can't be a woman just because you think you are you have to actually be one of vice versa you can't just if Allah that He brought you into this world and you have certain organs on your body that you belong to that particular sex you can't choose whatever you want but there are many Muslims who are Christian forward with these ideas well even the idea that really there's no difference between Muslims and non-Muslims anyway we're all human beings which is true of course we all share our humanity but you're not going to tell me that if you place an atheist beside a believer and even if you say both of them they say the atheist person is a moral person and the believer is a moral person do you think that Allah is there's no difference between those two Allah He loves Eman He hates Khufa He loves Eman so don't tell me there's no difference between a believer and an unbeliever of a man kind of of a man kind of a facifal is the believer like the the transgressor right you are not equal that's what Quran teaches us أفضل على مسلمين كمجرمين ما لكم will you make the Muslims like the criminals what's wrong with you how do you judge questions as in the Quran about that and again this is not to say that we should have an arrogant attitude to look down upon people or that we call on our Muslims maybe we've just said in the criminals and people are criminals against God they commit crimes against God but not believing in God right that is a crime right but but there is a difference Allah is talking about He loves Eman Eman is part of our identity we are Muslims we are believers right and it should mean something to us that there is a Muslim way to look at things but we won't know that if we don't read the book and then even if we read the book it won't mean anything if we don't believe in the book if we don't believe that this when we reveal about Allah سبحانه وتعالى then what really is the point you're not you can't trick God you can't trick without God but you're simply trying to redefine Muslim right redefine Muslim you can't you're not going to trick God Allah سبحانه وتعالى has his definition of Muslim he has his definition of movement he has his definition of Omasin you can't trick God by creating a new definition to make life easy for yourself somehow because you have some type of attachment to this world so we asked the Boston panel to Adam to help us to live in this world from from faith and to lead this world from faith when we have some we welcome that