 Alhamdulillah wa salatu salamu ala Rasulillah, Bobby pleasure being here, pleasure meeting you, I've seen some of your videos and I think you are somebody who is sincerely looking for the truth. I think, I mean this is my perspective, I mean we've got Bobby's perspective we'll take after the Bob's perspective but you know I see a lot of people on YouTube that have kind of preconceived ideas or they're just kind of doing things for clicks and views and I don't see you like that. I think you've been through a Christian background you know a lot about the church you know about the Trinity and I think kind of on your own you've realized that that's not the truth that that's just it doesn't really fit you know and and I myself as I don't know if you know much about my background but I grew up going to churches I mean I didn't grow up going to the churches I grew up going to Bible studies and there's a place called Horizon Christian Church here we have this Bible study group and you know myself growing up I had no Muslim friends I wasn't around Muslim community all my friends were either Christian or Catholic and and kind of like you you know like like I really wanted to believe it for a while like I really wanted to understand it even though like my family's Muslim but I didn't go to a mosque growing up I grew I went to only churches but it didn't make sense like I didn't really fit together and and when I started to study Islam when I went on kind of a spiritual journey you could say it really made sense I mean everything fell together some you know misconceptions had to be cleared up but other than that I mean it really did and it resonated with what I really saw as the message of the earlier prophets as well so that's a little bit about me and I think you have already come through a lot of that journey and inshallah by the will of Allah we're going to answer your questions today anything you have and then you're becoming Muslim inshallah inshallah god willing so thank you very much for us and for most for having me it's a great honor to be here a little bit about my break around as well for people that don't know yes it's correct I come from a Christian background however from an Orthodox Christian background my parents are from the Balkan from this little country called Northern Macedonia used to be Bulgaria used to be Greece constant shifting moving then it was under the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire the caliphate so to speak left a very negative perception on the Balkan with the Christian Slavs so therefore I grew up with a lot of hate for Islam I've been told that Islam is the enemy I've been told that Islam is only for the Turks or the Albanians because those were the only ethnic groups that were Muslim around us and I've been told that they wanted to destroy us as people our religion our culture everything right and then I grew up in Germany surrounded by Turks yet again being Muslim right and I saw them being unfortunately involved in a lot of criminality violence and prostitution drugs etc etc and that gave me even a worse perception of Islam right and it confirmed at the same time that Islam is wrong many many times I would see certain bodies of mine that were Muslim they would end up in jail and I would say that must be due to the religion man you know they just didn't get the memo that's probably why right but when I actually started looking into my own religion and this is after a long long journey of exploring everything else Buddhism Hinduism Taoism Taoism psychedelics shamanism and whatnot traveling the world I even been to South America to the shamans to the Native Americans to see what they are doing what they are brewing and ultimately I came to the conclusion that all of this doesn't fulfill me so I start looking naturally into my Christian roots right and to cut the long story short ultimately I came to the conclusion that you just have two options it's basically nihilism or God that's basically it so aside from religion that's all you got right you always end up either worshiping yourself worshiping desires worshiping pleasures worldly things or you're gonna decide for God I found that at first at Christian orthodoxy but I was the first one within my family cousins uncles my father mother they didn't know much about the theology to actually look into Christian orthodoxy and find out about the Trinity and that's no joke I want to clarify that again for many Muslim viewers most Christian orthodox that I personally know they have no idea about the Trinity they might have heard surely about the father the son and the Holy Spirit but in that combination nobody ever thought about God being three and one they think as God is God God is one God I was the first one to actually research that and I really got shocked because I was expecting this to be some sort of Catholic theology maybe Protestant theology but not an orthodox theology now looking back of course kind of naive of mine I started researching into the council of Nicaea etc etc and yes then I sure now it all makes sense of course it is an orthodox doctrine so to speak an orthodox Christian doctrine however it didn't resonate with me at all zero right and I started having talks even with my father and I told him about the Trinity and he looked at me and said oh that's really what they believe in that is crazy who is there who is there Muslims right I'm like no no no it's not the Muslims they don't believe in the Trinity believe in one God we believe in the Trinity so what that doesn't make any sense I'm like yeah I know yeah so that's basically it so I started researching further and ultimately I became a dad one and a half year ago almost now thank God for that and I just felt that my journey hasn't finished I didn't feel content within my own faith any longer having all of those questions about my own faith didn't make sense it can't give you peace anymore if you're consistently just looking within your own ideology and it doesn't add up so I said to myself you know what I have to debunk Islam first basically so I can become even more content within my own faith right if I discard the enemy then my faith will finally make sense again yeah and then I started reading the Quran for the first time and the rest is history basically now we're here right no no no so tell me more this is beautiful so when you read the Quran how did it affect you yeah at first I said that in my previous videos what affected me is that the Quran almost on every surah starts worshiping God right this praise to God and for me that was mind blowing and I know that too many Muslims this is just common sense but for me personally this was absolutely mind blowing because the bible itself there are different books piled together right stories etc it's interesting to read but nevertheless the Quran starts in a very very specific fashion of worshiping God and that on its own already discarded my preconceived notion of looking for the devil within the Quran right because I was really looking for the devil and then I started praising God so I said okay man so if you're praising God's on almost every page here yeah how will this be from the devil every time we begin the recitation of the Quran we begin with the awudu billahi minash shaitan al-ghajim we seek refuge with Allah from the cursed and discredited devil so this is always something interesting because in other religious traditions and again like like yourself I have gone through Hinduism Buddhism Jainism in that form and you know every every type of Christianity that I could get my hands on I do have an orthodox bible as well I recently got one I've been to an orthodox church before Greek orthodox and obviously I've been to a lot of Catholic churches Protestant churches I've been to kingdom halls Mormon temples and all of that I never saw a religious tradition that every time they began a recitation of their text they would seek refuge away from cursing the devil and and with Allah with one creator and myself in the same way when I read the Quran having come from a background of studying the bible more which was again it was very much the accounts of people I mean even if you look at the old testament you will find a lot about different kings and it really seemed more like people giving their accounts than God speaking to you the new testament again if you look at the gospels very little is actually God speaking you know even Jesus peace and blessings be upon him I have a bible that it highlights everything that they say as the words of Jesus compared to everybody else it's very few words in comparison to the rest of the bible and obviously Paul and you know about the Pauline doctrine and his and the fact that he was condemned by some of the original followers of Jesus for leaving the old testament laws and so on and so on you know so to me when I read the Quran the first time in a focus way not as you know a little child or something it was amazing because it was really as if God is speaking to me directly and I would get that feeling in every chapter that it would kind of affect me on how I should live my day-to-day life so I think that's wonderful now a little bit just for the benefit of the viewers because you have a very good background and you know a lot what I can tell you from my own self and none of these are loaded question this is all just a friendly conversation right what was very difficult for me with the trinity was two things that personally just didn't make sense to me as a person one was that Jesus being co-equal to God right because every time I read the bible it didn't read like that when I read the bible Jesus was always praying to God Jesus was always asking help of God Jesus even sometimes complaining to God and you know asking for this cup to be taken away from me or why have you forsaken me and fulfilling those prophecies putting his head on the ground praying to God Jesus not knowing whether there's leaves on a or fruit on a fig tree or not knowing about the hour clearly demonstrated a hierarchy to me right and many clear verses like even in John where it says that you may get to know eternal life and the one true God and then to separate from that and Jesus crime who you have sent clearly man even the people in the bible when they recognize Jesus they said this is the prophet of Galilee you know of so to me when we're not when the preacher would tell me that they're co-equal coexistent Jesus has always been God and then tells me you know Jesus was praying to God then I would say okay well then he must not have been God at that time right I mean that doctrine must be that when he came to earth he was no longer God and they're like no no he was fully God what that didn't make sense to me at all you know what about you like what was the what was the most you know conflicting thing that yeah we basically have the same hang up there on the Trinity predominantly what I found later on researching especially orthodox Christianity was that they have a wording for everything right so for example okay how about that Jesus didn't know about the fruit on the victory as you said right yeah well then he was fully human okay but he was fully God as well and if you asked about something else a little side tangent here how about all the icons within the orthodox church right right we worship them we don't worship them we venerate them right so I always see this wording you know what I mean yeah ultimately I found a very disingenuous because we use different words for the exactly same issue here right venerating worshiping we all know what's right there is no real difference here and so when it comes down to the Trinity the core equality was the biggest hurdle here of course because if we are speaking about the God man he is fully God which for me was a hiccup already at the beginning because I was thinking that the all transcendent God cannot be contained even if we would believe in some sort of Hindu perception of that somebody can actually receive the wisdoms of the universe within oneself you can never receive all of them in one mere little human being it's absolutely impossible to contain all of that knowledge so therefore the full God man that then is lacking knowledge is not the God man any longer even if we accept that premise so that doesn't make sense to me and that makes this perfectly put I mean you know I think of it like this you can't have a square circle you know it's not that you know some people like oh you mean God can't do it no no it's not that it's by definition they can't be the same the circle has no sides and the square has sides so you can't have a square circle I mean God can make a circle God can make a square he can do whatever he wants but by definition those two cannot be the same so God is all knowing as we find in the Old Testament as we find in the Quran as we find in the New Testament that God knows everything so okay so that's that's the definition and I think everybody in their nature we in Islam called fitrah the natural belief they would agree that God knows everything he's all powerful makes sense but then you cannot not know the hour and be God and Christians would do all kinds of like and it's not something new like they would do a kind of backflips and give different explanations but to me in my heart it just it just didn't fit you know so alhamdulillah when I read about Allah being the all knowing there's nothing that is not known to Allah there's nothing that is new to Allah Allah being all capable, Allah being so great, the Quran tells us there is no example that we can give to give so many to it to Allah in this earth that was beautiful like it made sense a one creator that created everything and look at the DNA of everything has things in common I mean even bananas humans have things in common in their DNA not that I'm saying we came from bananas but but it does show that there is one creator you know the signature is there so it made sense you know if you looked at the earlier Prophet what was their message here oh Israel your Lord is one and this is the same thing Jesus when he was asked what is the greatest or the first of all the commandments he said your Lord is one right Islam say Allah is one made sense and you follow the Prophet of your time so the believers in the time of Abraham they followed Abraham the believers in the time of Moses followed Moses the believers in the time of Jesus followed Jesus the believers in the time of Muhammad follow Muhammad peace and blessings be upon all of them makes perfect sense for me no what do you think yeah what you said there with there is nothing new to God that is very important as well right because as Christians we assume as well that God is perfect however when he takes on the form of Jesus that must be new to God as well right so therefore there is something that God himself no matter which part of the trinity if you believe in that has to have a new experience so to speak in order to reach some sort of way of perfection some sort of knowledge even right why would you have to make that experience as God if he is perfect from the beginning to the end he has no beginning he has no end where is this actually happening right and this will be discarded as well as a divine mystery then that is not sufficient explanation this is always the the term used by Christians when they can't explain something the mystery of the trinity you know and it's like you know again if this is going to be a core part of our belief system then it's gotta it can't be a mystery I mean some things about God we don't need to know we don't need to know you know some details because that's between God and his creation all that but but what is going to be our belief has to be something that even a illiterate farmer can fathom well there is one creator he sent the prophets you worship none but that one creator easy make sense from a phd scientist to a illiterate fisherman can understand grass that concept right so anyway this is a beautiful conversation but I know you have some questions I'm gonna let you put me in the hot seat the hot seat all right let's do it so first and this is not for me personally necessarily but much more for my audience as well for your audience for people that are watching why Islam as a concise quick answer why Islam why not any other religion why you know what I mean why religion I decide to give your life to Islam great question I'm gonna give a brief answer look I know and you know and everybody knows in their heart of hearts that we didn't come by ourselves we didn't create ourselves we didn't choose to be born we didn't make the universe that there is a creator when we even as humanity sometimes when you fall into these concepts of worshiping your own desires called atheism or agnosticism I've been on a plane next to somebody that I've had a long conversation about God and he told trying to convince me there's no God and that plane starts to shake immediately like oh god oh god oh god turns me pray for pray for us pray to who so so the reality is we know there is a creator in our heart we know it it's we see it in the perfection of the human the perfection of the universe so if there is a creator I cannot believe that all knowing all wise creator would leave us without guidance look Bob if you were to create a new machine or some new technology that nobody's ever seen and you're such an intelligent person you made this new technology you're not just going to give it to people like here do whatever you want with it no you're going to tell people this is how it works this is what it's for any cell phone any laptop that you get it's going to have a user manual that's going to tell you how to use that the manufacturer who knows the designer knows it's going to tell you how to use it correctly so if there is a creator which obviously from seeing all the signs in the universe there is then that creator has to have given us some guidance how to live what what's the purpose of our creation so then it comes to what religion so this tells you why I believe there is a god right I have and as you have been through the studies of many religions and no doubt that I find in all of them there is a a concept that is man-meaning meaning before the console of Nicea if you find the Aryans if you and I'm not talking about the race I'm talking about the Christian sect and if we talk about some of the earlier followers of Jesus as many atheists have also in their research like Bart Ehrman and others said that they did not consider Jesus to be God they saw him as a prophet and they saw him as somebody who brought a message until this pagan ideology of God having a son was kind of brought into Christianity and then look let me give a very simple example for your viewers I mean I think you're past that but for everybody else look at Christmas almost every Christian across the board except maybe Joe witnesses and stuff celebrates Christmas every church decorates up Santa and gifts and reindeers and throughout different parts of the world you know I was I was in Malaysia and I saw Christians in Malaysia celebrating Christmas I was in the UAE in in the Arab country in the United Arab Emirates and I saw Christians celebrating Christmas in the United States in the UK everywhere and anybody who takes five ten minutes to research will know that Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus peace and blessings be upon Jesus we love him Christmas was a pagan satanalia festival that they brought into Christianity they imported it in in one of the earlier popes and it's documented when he did it the many of the church fathers rebelled even the purists who came to America were against Christianity against the concept of Christmas yeah so if we look at that and how widely that has become accepted in the in the churches across denominations it tells you that these man-made ideas have been put into Christianity same thing with Judaism if you look at Judaism and I have studied it in some depth you know if you look at most very orthodox practicing Jews today their manner of dress has nothing to do with Moses or the Torah or or David it has to do with Europe this is the just things that they the the haps the big you know the big furry head I don't know if you've seen one of those yeah and the suits right I was always wondering why the suits right why the suits I mean that's not native dress to where Moses was or David Christmas blessings be upon both of them we love them as well I asked a rabbi in Israel I was in the codes I love free Palestine and there I asked one I mean I asked one of the rabbis and I asked him you know why do you wear this and he told me you know in in Austria there was a king that kind of mocked the Jews by making them wear fox tails but tied up fox tail as an insult and we kind of owned it like we just took it and went with it and the big furry hat that comes out it looks like you know it's they're usually black today I'll think wait a minute what does that have to do with the Torah what does that do the 10 moves what does that have to do with Moses or David or King Solomon peace and blessings be upon them nothing so a lot of what we see a lot of the practices of taking a live chicken and taking it over your head and you can YouTube video this it's not a joke they take live chickens and think it's not in the Torah it's not in it's not in the practice of Moses so I saw that a lot of that was man made a lot of the the rules and regulations that have been brought into Judaism are not from the Torah they're from the writings of different rabbis and that's why you have so many different types of Judaism from Reconstructionists to reform to a CDH to Orthodox to all kinds of Kabbalah and all that when I went to Islam it's the only religion that I found that first had a actual preserved holy text meaning even if you talk to a Jewish researcher they will tell you that if you're talking about the Torah that was with Moses we don't have that today you know meaning after the fall of Babylon after the people of Israel were you know they had to wander all of that they lost a lot of the earlier writings one of the earliest and I have the Dead Sea Scrolls one of the earliest that you will find I mean it's a copy not the original yeah of course it's about 200 BC that is very recent compared to when Moses and David and them were so that means we have no manuscript for the original text the Bible as I mean you studied well we have absolutely zero manuscripts from the time of Jesus peace and blessing be upon him the earliest semi-complete manuscripts going to be around the fourth century and then most of the manuscripts that we have for the Bible from seventh and ninth century so the earliest Quraig, Sinaricus and stuff is still going to not be complete and it's going to be nowhere close the Quran on the other hand you know one thing amazing about the Quran is that we have the original manuscripts they meaning the original writings that were you know carbon dated I have actually a scanned copy right now one of those early ones that is what's called the Birmingham Quran it's about a page and a half where they have non-Muslims in the UK have carbon dated that to the lifetime of the Prophet peace be upon him and the beginning of the Khilaf of Abu Bakr we have the Sunnah Quran and Muslims memorize the Quran whatever country you go to you can go to any mosque and call and tell them recite al-Fatiha and from memory letter by letter we have it memorized that's why we only have one Quran 114 chapters Shia Sunni this second nobody has a different Quran we have one Quran maybe different styles of recitation but everything will begin al-Fatiha and with the Nas 30 sections 114 chapters unlike as you know the Greek Orthodox Bible is different from the Catholic Bible Jovet and many of the chapters that are there you will not find in the King James Bible the New World translation of the Joe witnesses has different verses than you do in NIV or KGV and all of that literal different chapters and verses not a different style of recitation or different accent no so I found that this is there and then the worships in Islam all go back to the original meaning the way we pray five times a day the Prophet prayed we didn't invent new ways and if somebody does invent we can sit as a bid'ah innovation we rejected even if some Muslims deviate like you met Muslims that were off the religion they were doing crimes and things that's true Muslims are humans there's good and bad but the religion is preserved and that's something beautiful we have two celebrations Eid al-Adha Eid al-Fitr both of them proven from the Quran itself from the practice of the Prophet peace be upon him we don't have Christmas and Eastern all these things that were innovated so when I saw that preserved religion true and it in line with the message of all the Prophet to me that's the only one that made sense yeah that's a beautiful answer what you said there about the Bible with the earliest manuscripts there was one of the really really big chakras to me personally when I found out that the New Testament was only in Greek that's the only thing that we could find so I said wow that doesn't make any sense but the same time it makes a lot of sense because I understood the Greek infused flavor within the Greek Orthodox Church right and again from the history on the Balkans the Greeks they came over to Macedonia start building their Greek Orthodox churches and it makes only sense of course that those manuscripts are written in Greek definitely not written by the followers of Christ himself and yeah that leads to that type of religion then this cultural type of identity exactly it brings a lot of Greek mythology and those pagan ideas into Christianity because it was left over from what they had already and that's why if you look at the language of Jesus peace and blessings be upon him which is Aramaic you will never find unless they translate backwards original text in Aramaic even the Greek texts that we have are written by unknown authors I have the MacArthur study Bible even though it's a very evangelical Christian minded study Bible even then it says you know what Hebrews the author is anonymous you know Matthew Mark Luke these are these are in accordance to them not physically written by them I have a whole book just on Luke and it shows that these writings were not written by the original people it even references things that differently because their accounts were compiled later and that's why we have clear contradictions as well unlike the Quran the Quran is from one source from Allah to Jibril to the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him written down by the companions compiled the whole thing during the lifetime of the Prophet peace be upon him and that's why you will never see Muslims disagreeing on the chapter of the Quran nobody will come and say there's no al-Baqarah you know of course we have come to a conclusion here I have a follow-up question because you mentioned that God would send down a manual to us right it's a follow-up question that I just some guidance how about before the Quran excellent would have been the guidance excellent question we as Muslims believe that Allah sent guidance from the first man meaning Adam the first man to be created was a prophet he had the guidance with him it was not a book but it was a teaching that he knew that he taught his children during that time yes there were crimes committed and there were you know the the murders and so on but people didn't worship other than the one created in the time of Noah this concept of worshiping idols came and it came through an interesting deceit from the devil which is that you know he kind of told them you know you're going to mist the pious people so kind of build up on their graves and then to make a statue of them and like what we see with saints and saint worship in Catholicism and the Orthodox Church and so on so this is something that came in the time of Noah so Noah was then sent as a messenger to the people Allah revealed to him from his time onwards Abraham was given Ibrahim and we say peace and blessings be upon them that's another thing I love about Islam is we love all of the prophets and we love David we love Moses we love Abraham we love Jesus we love Muhammad peace and blessings be upon of them you never see a Muslim disrespect Jesus or disrespect Moses even if you may see a Christian or a Jew disrespect the Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon all of them but we we love all of them so every one of them was given a a a a message some of them were given scriptures like Moses was given the Torah like David was given the Zabur Jesus was given the Injeel we today don't have those scriptures right they were given to them at that time they ruled by them but today like when we look at the Bible today the Old Testament the New Testament any biblical scholar will tell you that these were written by many different authors over a large period of time kind of compiling what they could remember some parts of it maybe from the true message Christians definitely to a certain time would have had that true Injeel with them but around the seventh and ninth century when we get most of the manuscripts definitely a lot had changed and that's why many Gospels like the Gospel of Barnabas were at times put into the Bible and taken out Tobit for example in the Catholic Bible you will find it you will not find it in the Christian KGV Bible right so the prophets were all given messages the last of those is the Quran but it's not the first there were others that were revealed before him right that's a beautiful answer makes a lot of sense okay so that is the explanation for why Islam now I would really love to understand your understanding about God within Islam I think that's the most important thing I know I know what's our heat I know about the monotheism nice I have a specific question however coming from a Christian background and that is in Christianity the kingdom of heaven is within all right where's the kingdom of heaven in Islam excellent question is there a little follow-up here is there an internal internal aspect to Islam where do we find God's light for example that would be my question that is a great question in Islam we're very clear about some of the differences between guidance light in the sense of guidance Allahu nuru Samawati wal Ard there is a statement that a verse in the Quran that Allah is the light of the skies and earth and we as Muslims looking at the statements of the Prophet peace be upon him and the companions who were there when the Quran was revealed we know that that is the guidance that Allah gives right so there is in our hearts a light that is the guidance from Allah right there is in our books in our religious tradition a guidance from Allah we believe in that but we don't fuse the Creator with the creation meaning Allah is unique he is above us and what do we say about Allah we only say what Allah said about himself so in the Quran when Allah says that he is one we say he is one when Allah says that he there is a verse in the Quran that the most merciful is in reclining or established on the throne we believe in it as Allah said it right we don't start saying nah this could mean you know this might mean we don't go there right Allah is so great we don't try to use our own our own logic to give a figure to we just say look whatever Allah said about himself we believe in it in that sense so regarding where is the kingdom of heaven there is a a physical paradise right when we're talking about what's called al jannah and al jannah is a place and Allah has told us about it and it's a place where we live forever we will not be on the same level of existence as we are today even our appearances will be different our our lifestyle will be different because there's no death there is no sickness that is a place to enjoy so I'll give you an example from a worldly life to kind of give an example just to understand a concept let's say you know I tell you hey let's go on a vacation to the Maldives right Maldives are beautiful place going through all kind of hard trades maybe there's customs issues all this stuff you know there's that there's that hardship when you get there you forget all that right it's all it's all gone now you can relax now you can live up a beautiful life you forget physically sometimes all the hardship you went through because now you're sitting on the beach right so this life is that test you know no matter how rich you are no matter how powerful you are no matter how popular you are how handsome you are you're always going to have beautiful woman or handsome husband or whatever you're always going to have tests you're always going to have sickness you're always going to have stress you're going to have because this life is that test Allah tells the Quran the one who created death and life to see which one of you puts forth the best of deeds so this life is a test but when you get to paradise that's your destination that's where you're going to enjoy that's that's you made it right if you make it if you worship other than Allah if you worship cows and monkeys and humans and saints then then you fill that test but if you worship that one creator you passed that test then that is the reward right it is where we were meant to be and that's why even in our own selves we never think of humans ending like like ourselves when we think about life even when you think about death you always realize in your heart that there is something after you may not know what it is but you realize it and that's because we weren't meant to just finish like animals like you see animals don't think about you know we've studied animals they don't think about here after they don't they don't organize religions they don't worship you know anything right because their creation I mean their creation is to be of a certain purpose right and their purpose is on this worldly life right so they're eaten they live they they're part of that cycle that that's it but humans are always asking this question what is afterlife why because we were meant to live after this this worldly life so this is that paradise it is not something that is just in your heart no it's a physical place where you will live you will see Allah in in paradise there's a part of the belief of the Muslim that in this worldly life we cannot see God it's too great right we are limited and he's unlimited but in that hereafter we will see our creator we will see Allah and we will meet other people who are died if they also were in paradise and we'll meet family members and friends and you will sit and you will enjoy an everlasting beautiful life so that is paralyzed a part of the light of Allah in the sense of guidance is with us but Allah is above he's above the creation Allah he has told us things about himself like that Allah for example that Allah gives us life right so we believe in that but we don't believe that he's physically in us rather we worship Allah we don't worship the creation right the reason why i'm asking is because as i said with my background not only from Christianity but even prior to that i was very very interested in metaphysical topics and i still am and so i started researching even further not only into let's say mainstream Islam but i looked into certain people like even arabi and rumi which came way way later than the prophets i of course think that would be the explanation of that but even within the Quran there are certain passages that i understood to explain the existence of god the reality of god in a very mysterious and not so straightforward like he's just external for example so there is this passage everywhere you turn there is the face of Allah right so everywhere you turn what does that mean or you're another one just the name of Allah for example al-hak which is the ultimate reality sure the truth what does yeah the truth the ultimate reality or surely he encompasses all things there's another one so there is in the Quran there are ayah there are verses that are muhaqam muhaqamat yani those that are very clear and uh in their meaning is well known right for example uh Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah in the Quran he says uh kufu one ahad that is none like Allah right that is very clear explicit that creation are not like the creator he is the creator he is the khaliq we are the mahluk we are the creation then there are mutashabbihad those verses that are not explicit they're not very clear they have a very spiritual deep meaning to it some of it we explained through statements of the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him some of it we explained through the statements of the companions who were there when the Quran was revealed and the Prophet explained it to them some of it we leave to Allah we leave it to Allah what does alif laam mean which is the beginning of surat al-baqarah or alif laamra what do those letters mean Allah knows there is a meaning to it we don't say it doesn't have a meaning but we leave that to Allah because some things we cannot grasp in this world right our our our intelligence is too limited right so those things we leave to Allah but our core belief is very clear it's from the Quran Allah is one Allah is the creator we are the creation we worship the creator we don't infuse the creator with the creation now ibn al-arabi or al-halaj or some of these people that came later rumi and so on they they were mostly people who brought some concepts that were external to islam and tried to fuse them in right they were even the method of prayer for example rumi and the whole dancing and troubling thing we don't find in the tradition itself we don't find in the Quran we don't find in hadith and a lot of what they would say would go against the clear text of the Quran so for us we believe in the Quran as it is as Allah has revealed it if there is something that we don't have a clear hadith about or a clear statement of the companions and it's something that is not evident in itself then we leave it as it is we believe in it as it is okay so if Allah is completely beyond his creation he's nothing like his creation which i personally agree with good how how about the physical body parts that are described physical body parts great question so Allah has sifat Allah has characteristics but as we mentioned the Quran it says clearly there is nothing in comparison or resemblance to Allah and there is none like Allah so that tells you that the characteristics of Allah are not like us right i'll give you a linguistic example to understand the example of Allah is unique to him but i'm talking about linguistically for example you have a foot right and we could say the mountain has a foot we say the foot hills or the foot of the mountain but your foot and with toes and nails and all that and the foot of a mountain are nothing alike except that the mountain that does have a foot and you have a foot right we have we say the head of the mountain right the top part right well we have heads the mountain has a head but the mountain doesn't necessarily have eyes and a brain and ear and so on right so even though we don't deny that the mountain has a head or you have a head but we don't say they're they're similar right Allah tells us about himself about a wedge about a face about a yid about a hand about a shock or a shin and so on we believe in them because Allah said it about himself but we don't compare it to anything of the creation right we don't say in Arabic use a calf or a myth like in like like we don't say Allah has a hand like a person no this would be kufr this would be disbelief right we also don't say that Allah doesn't because if Allah said about himself he done right but how is it that in Arabic we say the cave how we don't know when we see Allah in the hereafter then we can see Allah then we can ask Allah then will be evident for us but when Allah tells us something about himself in the Quran the preserved book we believe in it I'll give you an example right if you were to go to the Amazon and I think you've been in Central America right that's interesting right and you go to some of the remote tribes and even in the Amazon now it's very hard to find the really remote tribe there is an island in India of the coast of India as well where technology has not gone people are allowed to visit when the helicopter went by they shot arrows at it and stuff right yeah just you they're throwing coconuts right yeah actually we're shooting arrows yeah that was interesting um but think about that if you went to those people and you had to explain to them how does the internet work that'd be a difficult thing because they don't have anything like it so what would you do you would give an example you would say you see how that you have these vines going across the trees and if you make a murmur on this side you can kind of feel on that side it's kind of like that right now that is nothing compared to a TCP TCP IP package that has a header and goes through the you know the fiber optics and all that kind of stuff how the internet works right but it does have a similarity so some characteristics of Allah are so great that Allah knows everything like that's a very hard concept for humans Allah sees everything Allah hears everything so sometimes when Allah sees it and you know it's in the Quran and khalas we believe in it how exactly we can ask Allah on the Day of Judgment but the things that have to do with your core belief what do you have to believe there is one creator I think it's very simple everybody gets it that creator sent messengers we believe in those messengers they brought a good message they told people don't worship idols don't worship things perfect now if we start getting into well does that creator have regrets well no because he knows everything it's in the Quran in the Bible we see some some things that are strange but very easy right well if that creator knew everything why did he create the creation it's a test that's what he tells us this life is a test that's it right so we believe in it we don't get started then getting into okay what exactly does the creature look like what color is he this is this is foolishness this is trying to put human ideas right whatever that creator told about himself we believe in it as it yes now that's a very satisfying answer because for me personally the concept which is already transcending the concept itself that God is all transcendent and therefore nothing like his creation resonates with me deeply and then to literally talk about the hand wouldn't make sense but the way that you explain that it makes sense to me absolutely can you just expand on the name al-haq I find that beautiful it is a beautiful name al-haq is the truth or the ultimate truth and we find it in the Quran just on you know I taught the different names of Allah in one of the series I did we went through all of them that are in the Quran Sahih hadith you know I found about 10 verses in the Quran just on my own that I found this reference in and here when we look in the Quran we find that it is that it is Allah who is al-haq that there really it is Allah who is al-haq that he is the truth that he is the one that gives life to the death and so on and you also find that Allah is the one that is the haqq and everything that is called upon other than Allah that is falsehood so what does it tell you that Allah is the ultimate truth and anything that is worshiped that is other than Allah is falsehood and all truth come from Allah the core truth of the universe is that there is a creator Allah everything past that is judged in accordance to that truth right meaning me and you can look at stars in the night and today scientists tell us that those stars aren't even there for that light to reach us it took so long that we see a star but it doesn't exist true that means things that we see could be false things that we hear sometimes you hear somebody's voice you look around they're not there right something you hear could be false sometimes you touch could be false you know they have these 3d printing reality thing is now right yeah right but Allah is the only ultimate truth and then whatever Allah tells us then that is the truth so for example where do we come from right what's the truth right so somebody will say we came from primate somebody will say no you know we came from a fish and the fish became a primate and then these are all people guessing at it you know and I can tell you from somebody who works in the scientific industry somebody who's I my my education is not just a religious education you know a lot of what we believe today about the development of species is not what Darwin said a lot of the writings of Darwin actually were very racist and very sexist and so on nobody wants to talk about that today right yes so it leads to the pinnacle of evolution the british basically right exactly right exactly and what what he wrote about some other races and some other people and the difference between men and women you wouldn't want to mention today you'll get cancelled your youtube will get cancelled from that right but but that's the funny thing is people have taken when we were young they taught us this this this thing where it was a chimpanzee looking thing and then he became like a ape and then became a human they had this graph you can still google and find it and then you see this guy walking or the briefcase right and then they're like no no no no that middle stage of the neanderthal that that wasn't a part of the state that was a separate so wait wait wait wait what you taught us as science is no longer the truth that so that tells you that these are guesswork so how do we know what is the truth from Allah is the ultimate truth and we know what is true from what Allah has told us that totally resonates with me i see it in the way that if you have a temporary being like us at least in this existence so therefore this cannot be absolutely true if you have a god that is eternal right so therefore only the eternity in comparison to temporarily states can be eternally true and therefore the wording al-hak makes so much sense to me excellent that's beautiful man that's it man you're ready for that islam man i can feel it no wait wait we have some questions left here so let's get let's get let's get into the quran and the laws that's how i title it how do you see this verse of the quran those who believe in the quran and those who follow the jewish scriptures and the christians and the sabians only any who believe in Allah and the last day and work righteousness shall have their reward with their lord on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve what does that mean for jews for christians if they say i believe in one god i believe in our scriptures i'm living a righteous life what happens to those people that's a great question um as uh myself i like to give actual references not just give answers kind of the top of my head um you know this library is not a green screen these are actual books that i actually read it's not cgi yeah and and that's the thing you know one thing i loved about islam is it wasn't just hollow answers like sometimes i would ask my pastors and preachers and and they would kind of just make up an answer like you were saying they would just make up terms to give a different name to the same thing and you're like what you know um but in islam we always go back to the original text so the quran and this verse is in surat al baqala this is a tefsid this is an explanation that is based only on evidence so not a scholar's opinion like ibn kathir or saadi those are later scholars this is a a work that has been done to compile actual narration meaning from the prophet peace be upon him himself or the companions that were around the prophet that learned the quran from them so regarding this in the ladina just one second who comes this tefsid from who wrote this just so this is excellent so this is not a work by a particular scholar a a entire team of scholars they came together it's called mosoor tafsir mahtur which does it mean that if they have collected a all of the earlier books of tafsir like atabari which we have you can't see it in the it's kind of higher up here atabari and ibn kathir and all of them when they have actual narration like not a scholar's opinion but when the prophet peace be upon him explained the verse himself in a hadith or the companions like ibn abbas or ibn masood or salman al farasi they explained a verse themselves then they collected all of them checked authenticity this is what i love about islam is checking the chains of of narrations you know so when they did that they compiled it into one set which is 24 volumes right so this is just one volume from it and this is on this is the third volume or sorry second volume and this is regarding surat al baqarah and this is a 60 second verse about those who believe and are in guidance from the nasara from the christians and the sabians right uh man amanubillahi they believe in Allah on yawm al akhirah the day of judgment wa amil al salihah and they do good good deed for them for for them adjuruhum they have their reward in the rabbi him with their lord la khawfun there is no fear alayhim upon them wa lahum yahzunoon and they will not be people of regret or misery or sorrow right so then and again this is just a rough translation i'm giving i don't have english in front of me um regarding this verse there are clear statements from for example Abdullah ibn abbas Abdullah ibn abbas was a very close companion of the prophet peace and blessings be upon him it's his cousin abbas is his uncle and he was very young when he became a muslim and he memorized the entire quran and went over the meanings of the entire quran and he explained that this is about the christians and jews that were there before the time of the prophet peace and blessings be upon him because and he explains because later in the in the same quran Allah says that those from the christians and jews who hear this message and don't believe then they will be from those who are losers so they will be in punishment so it no so this is referring to those before this is also statement from mujahid that and he's one of the early tabi'un scholars of islam that he asked salman al farasi salman al farasi salman the persian he was an actual companion of the prophet peace be upon him so mujahid the great tabi'i scholar he said i asked about this particular verse and that's why i have the book with me to show the reference and he salman al farasi says that this is for those that died for example christians that were following jesus peace be upon him before they heard about islam and they were following the true message of jesus they were not worshiping jesus they were actually the true followers women and whoever heard of this religion and did not believe in him is destroyed so this verse is regarding those christians and sabians and jews whoever else that in that early time were truly following their prophet that not about somebody today who worships jesus or worships any a golden calf or something else and then says i believe in god and this is unfortunately true i mean amongst the jews we saw people that you know historically they worship a golden calf and they still said they believed in god so in islam you cannot just profess a belief and then do acts of kufr meaning even as a muslim even as a muslim if you say i believe in Allah i believe in islam but then you go and worship a saint or you go and say i believe in Allah but i don't believe in the Quran for example i believe in the Quran but i don't believe in the prophet peace and blessings be upon him then it's kufr it's destruction we as people look you and me we realize there is a creator and like you've been saying we realize that creator has sent us a message that resonates with us that that makes sense it's a very core belief that was very it's simple once we have that then it is upon us to know what our creator wants from us and do that right to the best of and again all of us have shortcomings right i have sins i have shortcomings if there's no human on the page of the earth today they can say i have no sin if they are they're lying and that's a sin in itself right so we all have shortcomings but we need to say okay if i believe in Allah then whatever Allah said in the Quran whatever is proven from the prophet peace be upon him this is going to be my way i'm going to do my best to follow it even with my shortcomings and i ask Allah for forgiveness and Allah is the most merciful sure enough so speaking about the Quran and seeing the Quran as the word of God so everything that the Quran states comes straight from God that is the claim the question is here for me personally when the Quran speaks about Jesus this is very interesting for Christians i believe sure why doesn't the Quran call him jeshua or yashua or however that would have been pronounced back then but rather calls him isa isa if it is the word of God sure so Allah said in the Quran in and Allah Quran and arabian but only we reveal the Quran in arabic right it is a Quran revealed in arabic so even though many of those words will go back to a root that will be with the aramaic terms like yashua and think that we find today are still changed from their original texts right so the original reference to Isab the mariam is going to be of that right but there's going to be a arabized tint to it because the Quran is in arabic but the word daud for example or salaman these are not originally arabic names but when Allah says in the Quran that musa alaihi salam said hold her grab or when Allah said to musa alaihi salam grab that and don't be afraid right of course this is being revealed in arabic whatever language was spoken to in musa was in was spoken to me in musa but the Quran is revealed in arabic and in arabic in the Quran the name is isa that makes sense yeah i remember the passage when the Quran says it was revealed to you in clear arabic in paraphrasing yeah right so then my other question is muslims always say for example that they're not eating pork by the way i'm not eating pork either i stopped eating it when i was a teenager i wouldn't miss it i never had bacon i never had bacon in my life i talked about this on my channel as well when i was 14 15 or so i ate ham without knowing it because i thought it's chicken breast and i puked but because i always want to experiment and understand what truth is even back in the day i bought the same ham again just to see if i'm really puking of this ham so i puked again and then i started researching and i read the old testament and i saw that there are laws that you shouldn't part right even within the old testament look look at how beautifully allah's guiding you from your childhood from your teen at the time allah was showing you the truth you know allah was putting that in your heart to see the truth and that's a beautiful thing us sitting here is not a coincidence there's no such thing as a coincidence in life allah brought you through all of that christian background and hindu and buddhist to the truth of islam and brought you know uh to be very honest with you we get a lot of requests from a lot of different youtube personalities to do interviews and i hardly ever ever do them i just i don't have time and i mean i don't get paid by omf i don't get paid by my mosque i have a job i got four kids all of that right but i reached out to you uh because when i saw a little clip and a very sincere person who showed me the clip may allah reward them for it i saw that you had that sincere to find the truth and that's something beautiful that allah took you through that so go ahead about eating pork and the and the law now thank you very much for that man i was really wondering because i didn't reach out to you you reached out to me and i was wondering because i've seen people reacting to islam talking about it from a christian background i was really wondering so thank you for clarifying that by the way you're the only youtuber i've reached out to ever wow that's amazing that's not a man thank you very much brother i appreciate the honor for me yeah so as i was saying i puked twice i experimented i wanted to realize that then i started researching saw in the old testament that pork was forbidden and out of sudden it is not anymore i knew that muslims are not eating pork then i found out that the jews are not eating pork either that was new to me as a teenager and that was basically it even back then i said there is a clear contradiction here and i was a teenager and i wasn't even deeply religious but i was identified as a christian i said that is a contradiction so i'm not going to eat pork anymore and my uncles they're butchers they were eating pork every single day but i just said no right then right there right so i didn't have pork in the past over 20 years because it didn't make sense to me that's beautiful look um allah made haram for us those things that are not good for it right makes sense i i was i was taking a class a health class when i was doing my master's here in the u.s and they had a they had a study done and they said the worst meat for you is pork a meat that even if you cook the heck out of it there's going to be parasites there's a guy here in san diego that got a worm in his head from eating a pork taco right allah didn't make something haram because it hurts allah no allah is a master of the universe he's the owner of everything he wants us to live a pure clean life so when jesus according to christian theologians and professors that i've spoken with lived on this earth according to christians he didn't eat pork you know it was paul that was like yeah you know because he knew come on come on now come on all right right exactly yeah circumcision your robots don't like to be circumcised so forget that you know so so you see how the christian faith was was manipulated and changed and perverted to fit a roman or european mindset to gain followers in islam we don't do that we stick to the original message now one second that is actually sorry that is actually very powerful because to this very day you will see christian quote-unquote nationalists that will identify with christianity because it is also european and islam is also foreign to europe not realizing that they stem of course from the same place but yes a lot of adaptations made to please the europeans and to make it comfortable for them and to appear as a quote-unquote european white religion all right and the thing with islam is islam is not an arab religion i'm not arab right i learned arabic because i wanted to read the quran and original language but less than 14 percent of the muslim world is arab and even those most are not originally arab like morocco algeria northern africa they're not originally arab they speak arabic today but they're not original arab most muslim the biggest muslim populations today are going to be in southeast asia indonesia malaysia these areas and then you're going to have the india pakistan area so really nationalism should have nothing to do with your belief set you know europe was pagan way before i was christian that doesn't mean paganism as a european religion right but go ahead yeah back to the initial question is that many muslims especially back in the day in my surroundings would pride themselves we are not eating pork we are not drinking alcohol that's cool man but how about the rest i was wondering how about the rest of the mosaic law i have one quote here of jesus himself when he says don't misunderstand why i have come i did not come to abolish the law of moses or the writings of the prophets no i came to accomplish their purpose right so i was just wondering as muslims why not keep all of them great question um we keep everything that is confirmed in the quran but we do know that many of the mosaic laws were changed and many were introduced later like we were talking about what we see practice in judaism today a lot of it is not actually from the law actually it's from the writings of the rabbis um you know very there are some very very strange practices and again everybody um has their own idea of the strange but you know taking live chickens and putting them on your head or or you know some of the uh some of the ways of circumcision i mean i don't know if we know i don't know if we can talk about this on youtube but i know yes right so let's let's not but let me just say this there's a uh uh a rabbi in new york and this is a jewish man who came to our table the video's online told us about this um he had herpes and he gave herpes to all these kids because of the way he was using his mouth for circumcision google it google it i'm not gonna say i don't want to get banned but but the whole point here is that those we don't find as original we see these are corruption so what do we do is we look at that and we see what does the quran and what does the prophet peace and blessings be upon him confirm and we keep those so we are circumcised nobody's mouth is involved in it but we are circumcised uh we we do have uh we don't need pork we have halal which is not exactly the same as kosher because kosher some of the laws are not from the Torah they're made up uh we do stick to the the humane method of raising and killing animals we do believe we eat animals alhamdulillah we have canines we're not vegetarians we're not vegans but we do believe yeah alhamdulillah we do believe in a humane way which is the halal way so those laws that are confirmed yes we keep to those laws that we don't know that they may have been corruptions that were added and so on we can't follow because a lot of those really don't make sense some of the marital laws i don't know if you know about some of the the sheet and the shaving of the head and all that kind of stuff that they've this is really things that they've kind of made up so we can't follow those that is something that i encountered in sydney quite interesting that a big jewish community in australia and the women would shave their heads and then for the rest of their life wear a wig yeah very expensive wigs yeah yeah but what's the logic the idea is that they're supposed to cover their head yes cover their self so they made a little trick yeah they shave the head and they wear a wig and they say well technically you know it's not my hair but you can't fool god you can't you know it's like the whole thing in the Quran about putting your nets in on friday and taking it out on sunday well you're not supposed to fish on saturday you can't trick god you know but this is why we don't follow those mosaic laws but whatever is confirmed with the Quran and sunnah yes we follow yeah that's quite interesting even when paraphrasing here as well in the old law it says that a woman should cover if she doesn't cover she should shave her head right if that defiles her then she should cover of course that's actually that's actually a verse in the new testament yeah that's actually it's in the new testament yeah it's very and then i show that to a lot of christians and we don't see anybody practicing on that today but the judeic laws of hijab of covering is also very different because their covering is even in front of the husband and even when they're sleeping and so on and and we believe that's a corruption like that something has been changed because the Quran a woman covers outside to protect her from the evil eyes of those that would mean her harm but with her husband that's your husband i mean do whatever you like that's that's what is the marriage is for right yeah so yeah so that is very very interesting man i didn't know about the covering in front of the husbands that's very strange yeah i had a powerpoint that had listed all the rabbis writings on this and stuff and again these are the corruptions of the original laws of Moses you mentioned you mentioned halal slaughter there for people that don't know shame on me but i was a vegan myself i experimented for quite some years yes it failed miserably i talked about that extensively on my youtube channel as well i was a vegan for four years straight wrecked my health completely and i did it right because i'm a fitness as well certified etc so i tracked my nutrients and i really wanted to make it work right protein calories everything and then the end destroyed pretty much everything in my body teeth digestion depressed etc etc quitting veganism actually led me to god because i realized i was looking into the science and the science was pointing towards a plant-based diet but within the old scriptures it says we shall eat meat right yeah so i said wow apparently science is not the ultimate truth after all here and it didn't work even though i did it right anyways my question would be about halal slaughter i've seen a bit about it but how is it practiced is it truly humane for the animal maybe this interesting for vegetarians that are looking to eat again i mean the thing if any of the viewers here are vegans the vegetarians look let's just be honest right we have canines these would not be there if if we as humans were not meant to eat meat if the creator the designer even if you don't want to believe in god even if you want to go by nature cows don't have canines right the lions do right what do lions eat meat so yes we have the back teeth that we can chew vegetables and rice and wheat no problem with that but we also have canines that's just the natural designs of humans and there are nutrients as you have mentioned and you've experimented and seen that you just can't get without meat and is this true and and you will find all kind of unnatural ways of trying to get proteins in trying to live a natural life like you know it just doesn't make sense right there is no there is no vitamin a no vitamin b12 no vitamin d3 no dha epa no k2 there is nothing on those sorts of course no cholesterol carnus and carnitin right none none of it in plants so you have to supplement your diet every single day and there is no study done on a long-term effect of supplementation either so it's all in there and look uh from a humane perspective when they say i don't want to kill an animal look go out and look in nature there is a system are you going to stop lions from killing animals then are you going to stop coyotes from killing animals like this is not something that's up to us to make god made the system it works use the system as it is now um regarding halal i'm going to be very blunt right when you slaughter an animal and kill an animal it's not it's never going to be uh where it's just like you know flowers and clouds and i mean even if you cut a plant you know you know when you when you mow grass the the smell is actually a a scream or a call for help the grass ends out you know like animals have plants have feelings you know this is something that many scientists have proven now right so the point being in the end yes that there is a a somewhat unpleasant thing you're going to have to go through right but the system in the west where they electrocute them or they shoot them in the head with nail guns or they you know bam them with metal doors and either the documentary called food ink where they show this horrible condition that they keep animals in that's torture that's that's in humane that is against islam it's against i think anybody who's fitra who's natural state would understand in islam we are told to raise the animals in a way that is befitting meaning the prophet peace be upon him when he saw even an animal overburdened he got upset he told them you can't overburden an animal when he saw people riding an animal that wasn't meant to be ridden he told him this is not for that you can't misuse animals you can't just pump them full of hormones and you know never let them walk like the chickens that you know their feet cracked because they were pumped this is against islam and islam we want to give them a humane life and at the time of death the prophet peace be upon him this is why i love islam because everything goes back to evidences he he saw a companion sharpening a knife to slaughter an animal and the animal could see the knife the prophet told him are you going to kill the poor animal twice meaning don't let him even see the the blade he told him sharpen the blade so it's quick painless and it's done where the animal doesn't know it's going to go into that state meaning you don't let the animal know so out of the ways of slaughter it is the most humane and i have slaughtered animals myself and i can tell you in a few minutes it's done and i have gone to slaughterhouses in the west where i have seen the hours that animal goes through agony being shot in the head with a nail so in islam yes we are meant to eat meat for humans we do it in the most humane way possible in a way that the animal lives a good life a life where it's free range where it can walk around where it can enjoy its life and then at a time you know where it's slaughtered it doesn't even know it's going to be slaughtered so it doesn't have that agony reaching up to it the slaughtering is fast it's done the blood gushes out it doesn't feel the pain so in the way the slaughter it is the most humane way i've seen it i've done it and i have never seen anything as easy as it in other ways of slaughter in mass slaughtering houses you see chickens is put on and you see a machine going and the chickens are freaking out and the machine misses and they throw them many a times in uh you know a huge electric electrocuted bucket and it's going through all that pain to us that's that's in humane that's not something that we feel is the correct way to do things so we feel that the islamic method is definitely the best method and the only way that we would see to be as humane as possible in a way that we understand that you know this is a slaughtering process it's not something that's easy uh in the sense that it's not going to be like totally uh you know nothing but like i said i i've been to many slaughterhouses i've been to places in san diego i've been to places in la up to five freeway and you go into some of these places and the method they keep these poor animals in and the way that they torture them at the time of death it's this horrible and then i've been in pakistan and i've seen you know when when you know when we have the aid we have the slaughtering of the of the sheep and the goat and the meat that's given to charity and so on you know in a minute they take the poor animal out the animal doesn't know it's kept away from the other animals that are dead in two minutes it's done it's the little past that you take that meat you slaughter it up right there you give it out so it really if somebody researches it it is definitely the most humane way great answer okay let's get into my personal i would say challenge in researching islam excellent because when i read the koran for me it was so external to everything that i witnessed within my life as i said i had negative experiences with muslims i would have never expected the koran to say what it says i didn't expect the koran to even speak about the worship of one god believe it or not that was the biggest surprise to me personally aside from that once i started looking into the koran i found that islam doesn't have only the koran but it has hadiths as well right yeah and since the koran is the word of god and i know you heard this question a million times before but nevertheless personally it's still so strange that then i would need hadiths in order to compliment it right and i heard that you are into hadith science yes i have a i have a masters in hadith and uh these books that you see here these are all hadith books so we have a the whole section here is on hadith yes so my basic question is what is the importance of hadiths that's basically excellent question so when we see a verse from the koran um we know many people today will want to misuse that verse right okay and the verse will be explicit for example uh you know the the verse about uh to prepare the seeds of war against your enemy but if they inclined towards peace then inclined towards peace right what islamo folks do is they'll cut off the next verse or they'll cut out that context and interestingly uh it's the khawaret or the extremists amongst the muslims who do the same thing they will take that verse out of context and the islamo folks the anti islam people do the exact same thing they kind of come together on that misuse of the koran so what do they do they take that verse out of context and then they will use it where it should not be right so here this is the beautiful thing about hadith and i'll explain a little bit about hadith first i'll just tell you what's the point it gives you that context it gives you that reference so people don't misuse the words of Allah so when we say uh we don't want to be on the path of those that earn the wrath of Allah or those that went astray who are those so if we don't have hadith then everybody will come up with their own ibn Arabi for example they give some strange meaning you know other people like that uh they will give their own strange meanings but the prophet peace be upon him explained that maghdubi alehim is the jews and daulin are the christians so now we have a clear reference to understand the context of the verse hadith also tell us about some verses that were during battle and that's why i was telling you about some of the sahaba the companions they said yes we were there when this reveal this verse was revealed to the prophet peace be upon him and it was during battle so then that tells us you can't take that verse and put it in during peacetime sometimes we're doing travel so hadith really gives us the context needed the quran tells us pray that's the order of Allah okay but what are the minute details about the prayer how am i going to fold my hand how am i going to go into rapport what verses am i going to recite that is going to come in hadith if all those rulings were in the quran now and look these are books of hadith right imagine the quran had all this in it how would we memorize it you know how would we memorize exactly the quran is the words of Allah it's perfect it's revealed hadith there are weak hadith you know sometimes they're weak that's why we have a ho and i have a whole section in the library over there and my particular passion is in the science of grading hadith and classifying hadith called so unlike christianity where you're like we don't know who wrote it but it's in the bible now no for us if we don't know who narrated the hadith it's called majhul it's an unknown error we can't accept it right so in hadith we have books like al-Bukhari and muslim who we know to be a compilation of authentic hadith then you have great works of hadith that have some weak hadith and we reference to know which ones are weak and which ones are strong and we don't rely upon weak or fabricated or unknown narrators kind of hadith we only accept that which is authentic and it gives us that context needed to practice our daily life right for me my questioning is because i come from a christian background not trusting paul necessarily right i see him as somebody that innovators i agree when when were the hadiths written down how can i trust them excellent question um even if they're sorry even if they're graded as sahi if they're graded as okay we accepted them but when was that accepted excellent excellent question um the hadith were written down during the lifetime of the prophet peace be upon him there is clear references where he told ali alib nebi talib companion who was his cousin and one of the earliest followers to write down the rulings that have to do with accidental death and so on and send it to a certain people so that was written down as hadith meaning his statement during the lifetime of the prophet peace be upon him during the earlier time the prophet forbid writing down his word because the companions would be writing down memorizing the Quran and he didn't want that his words are confused with the Quran in the early times they didn't know like if he said something they may assume it's in the Quran so he said no just write down the Quran in the later times he the prophet peace be upon himself said and there's a clear statement where he said look earlier i forbid you now i allow you because nothing comes from this mouth meaning what he's been reviewed except the truth so in the lifetime of the prophet peace be upon him hadith were written down and then after that time the companions like abu hurayra and others they memorized like the Quran was memorized they realized when the prophet used the Quran in prayer and told them that this is the Quran so they had by the consensus of the companions 114 chapters 30 juz is the Quran so the other statements of haslam they also memorized and they wrote down and there's sohb they had these scrolls that some of these students of the first generation this is talking about sahaba they had written down now during the very early time there's a book that i have it here this is called the muqtaf imam malik imam malik was very early on in the first hundred years he compiled an entire war categorized and each hadith it takes the and this is arabic and english but you see it takes a chain all the way back to the prophet peace be upon him right now that means in the first generation we already had complete works in the first hundred years somebody from the first uh i mean early times between him and the prophet sometimes is only two narrators where he will say an nafi'a said abdullah abni amr said the prophet alhamd said right so they had written down complete works and every work of hadith that's an original work will give you the chain of narrators unlike paul who never met jesus that chain is broken unlike only in a dream only in a dream like in hadith we don't rely on dreams right unless you physically heard saw something we don't accept it in hadith right so even if you look at the the earliest biblical manuscripts that were written in fourth century that means between that and even paul's time you have a huge gap unknown people not in hadith um let me show you a book here this is sahih al-bukhari only the point i will make if you look at the the hadith it's not just from an bukhari it will go all the way to the abuhir radiya allahu who said i heard the prophet peace be upon him so you see the chain is going to be all the way so there is there is no writing later they were compiled maybe later but the chain will go all the way to the prophet meaning who did they hear it from who did they hear it from who did they hear it from all the way to the prophet if the chain is missing a link that's a weak narration we can't accept it right so these were written down in the earliest generations there was complete works that were put together like books in the first hundred years that we have and even the later works will give you the chain all the way back to the prophet peace be upon him now each person in that chain we have their biography i have an entire other section of the library that that is al-murrijal this is just the biographies of the narrators so each person in that chain i can pull his biography or her biography when were they born where did they live wives husband children what they did for work how trustworthy were they how good was their memory and then we don't just rely on one chain we have some hadith that have 70 independent chain so it's a very precise science i mean like i said i have a master's in it there's phd's you can do in it that goes through a whole checking so unlike in christianity or other religious tradition where you kind of just go with like well that's what the church father said uh it's not like that in islam so for somebody from the outside like myself when bukhari that you just showed so i think his complete name is muhammad ibn ismail al-bukhari he was a person right and he compiled it yes in in 846 or something like that that's right so yeah i mean we go by hijri dates so it's 200 something hijri uh after the time of of the of the migration of the prophet peace be upon him yeah okay when he compiles those hadiths what does he have in front of him just for my understanding i really don't see how does he have text in front of him does he have people how does he compile them great great question so imam bukhari he has teachers that have memorized that teach him word by word letter by letter and they will tell him who did they memorize it from who did they memorize it from all the way back to the prophet he also has actual books because like i mentioned the muwatta imam malik is almost a hundred years about before imam bukhari so these works are already written down right and even before the muwatta you have the writing there is a scholar named imam ahmad ibn hamban he's a very strong and instrumental scholar he's one of the teachers of imam bukhari meaning imam bukhari reported ahadith from imam ahmad imam ahmad has a book called the musnad imam ahmad it's on the other side of the library but it is actually bigger than al-bukhari it's about 40 000 narration and that was already written down so imam bukhari has those written references in front of him he also has the verbal the oral tradition in front of him that he memorizes imam bukhari memorized around two to three hundred thousand ahadith right from memory and from that he collected only about two thousand seven hundred something to be in his sahih so before him scholars of hadith fully written books you know this is the this is the lie that some people oh hadith weren't written until 200 300 years later that's just that's just a lie anybody with academic honesty would know that imam malik being in the first hundred years from hijri this from the the way from the not even from the death of the prophet peace be upon him and his teacher imam zohri and the earlier imam like imam abu huraira who was a companion his students had written down scrolls imam ahmad the teacher imam bukhari says in the musnad that i saw this hadith written down in the handwriting of the students of the companion meaning even in his time they had written records that they were able to verify reports with okay fair enough this is pretty impressive the hadith sciences like we don't have time to get into it in depth yeah sure so accurate that i can tell you that if i was to take the scientific method of clinical trials and the science of judging hadith the science of judging hadith is more precise wow many muslims are just ignorant about it that's true they use weak hadith and things that's just because they're ignorant but if you spend the time to study it and inshallah after you become muslim i'll set up a special class for you uh where i'm gonna go over these with you you will realize that in hadith sciences there's no doubt right it is such a precise science we have this thing called mutawatir and we have so many different ways of judging a hadith that it is amazing it's beyond the scope of this conversation but i have videos i have a on our majd ribad channel we have uh i think it's seven or eight short introduction called the science of grading hadith made easy once you go through that you will be amazed you'll be amazed because in a clinical trial that i i work in on pharma and med device we don't go through that much precaution like the scholars of hadith that's how accurate it is um and that's why in islam we rely on it and but again the quran is the words of allah quran there is no doubt no hadith can be contradictory to quran when people say this hadith contradict to the quran is this either the ignorant of the of the authenticity of the hadith or the application of the hadith that's just their ignorance you know and that's why we have scholars who spend a lifetime studying these things and teaching these things so that's amazing you mentioned the contradictions to the quran my question would be when i was reading the quran the topic of four wives for example doesn't pop up explicitly right and by the way guys i have no issues with four wives i would like to have four wives as well but other than that allah bless you for it god knows it's a lot of work as well though anyways the way that i understood it is in the quran and correct me again if i'm wrong here that there is a verse in the quran orphans right like in some way but it is a verse he says to many two three or four but if you cannot then one right so that ruling is in the quran itself about uh polygamy and uh the prophet also in a hadith mentioned it but the quran itself does give that uh leeway not just for orphan even though it is sometimes definitely in the context of people that are in need right but even if you look in the earlier traditions if you look at salam and if you look at david if you look at the old testament it's filled with polygamy there's nothing um in the earlier religious traditions that stops it in the quran it is a clear verse that tells you two three or four and if you're unable to be just then one is best and that is the natural state you have adam and eve you have one one great if you're happy with one wife great you're happy she's happy live your life right but no doubt until today there is a need uh i mean for example uh in iraq recently there was a war as we know and many of the men were killed and many women unfortunately the documentaries were forced into prostitution and things that they really shouldn't be because they had no way to make a living there there was no economy there was no men were out there fighting each other you know with guns and whatever women couldn't so we in islam don't believe in that hypocrisy where you put a woman in that state in in the west and i mean in europe and you've lived in europe and in other countries what that is it is a hypocrisy right they will say oh polygamy oh how could you but if a man has 30 girlfriend there's no no no problem with them which which president hadn't had much mistresses i mean if you talk about donald trump having sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant that somehow is legal but if she was to get a second wife that would that would be like oh no you know they'll actually marry her actually marry her right openly and the no secret marriages i mean there's something that should be done open look if bill clinton's in the oval office doing whatever with the winski he still stays the president it doesn't even get any right but if he was to say hey you know what i want to take a second wife i want to be open about it i don't want to do it hidden then oh that's that's horrible right all these massage parlors and strip clubs and dance clubs and what happens in vegas days in vegas and all this stuff all this underhanded hypocritical all these church leaders that get found out in hotel rooms with prostitutes that all goes on and we try to try to blind the eye to it in Islam we don't believe in that look if you're happy with your wife and she's happy with you great live your life and that's 99% of the muslim world i mean if you go to the muslim world you will hardly in most muslim countries you will hardly see polygyny because that is just the way people live but if there is a situation that in a halal in a clear way in a permissible way without trickery and all that you can have a second wife great i mean if they're all happy with it but why do we have a problem with it right yeah makes sense now you see a lot of hypocrisy like that in the west of course people being against as i said marrying women right and making them honest women but as a woman or a man nowadays you can be promiscuous as much as you want to be and swipe on tinder left and right and have a good time quote unquote no worries right yeah that's ridiculous that's ridiculous anyways now we're going to get into the nitty gritty speaking about sexuality this is something that i heard from david wood himself right the first things that you hear from those islamo folks or anti islamist column what you will is always violence sexually charged comments etc etc so before i mentioned the sexually charged comments i don't know what all it can fee ullum al quran is right that is the source i want to start like that first and foremost what is that source and then we can read out the comments if you want to let me get it for you i have it actually unlike david wood i actually have books i don't just google them yes the internet it is disposable but he disappeared he's not online anymore yeah so this is al itkhan fee ullum al quran imamo syuti who is uh from around the ninth 900 hijri meaning about 900 years after the prophet peace be upon him um and you can see i have studied this book quite extensively this is a book dedicated to the sciences of how you explain the quran and how you understand that it's not a quran uh it's not a it's not a book it is not so so this is this this is why the problem islamo folk they don't actually know what they're talking about they google things they don't know arabic they don't know the text david wood doesn't know what this book if i showed this to him he wouldn't know the book it is yeah let alone be able to read it right so this is a book that just goes over uh the different scientists about the quran it doesn't even explain the quran itself it just tells you how explanation is done how the quran was compiled how the companion to memorize the quran how you know different sciences of the writing of the quran how the different lettering and the meanings and those things it's it's about the sciences ullum of quran it's not a quran book it's not a tafsir book it's not a hadith book it's not a book book it's not jurisprudence none of that when i heard this statement made at first i thought oh that's in the quran right then i looked further into it then i thought okay it's in the hadith and now my latest researcher was like okay that's a tafsir then it must be an explanation but it's not even that it is not yeah and again um if we go through the different chapters i mean it will talk about the difference between abrogation and abrogation it'll talk about the differences between some of the different ways of recitation this is a section about those companions that memorize the quran by heart i've got my own notes with it obviously but this is not a book we rely upon for tafsir itself i have a whole section that has tafsir ibn kathir and tabbari and imama syuti the author of this book also wrote a tafsir book he wrote a few tafsir books one is called dorar and he has another one qatsul azhar which is a two volume very rare one i have it as well and other books tafsir al mahtur and so on this is not one of them so go ahead that's very interesting so it has been written 900 years after the prophets on top yes yes and again it's not a hadith book it doesn't have any chain of narration for hadith it's just more giving it even gives you sometimes contradictory opinions to explain to you how how those opinions are merged or understood which one is stronger and so on okay all right the quotes each time we sleep with a huri we find her virgin besides the penis of the elected never softens the erection is eternal the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and where you to experience it in this world you would faint each chosen one i.e. muslim will marry 70 huris besides the woman he married on earth and all will have appetizing vaginas okay what's the reference it's fine because i have it here with me yeah the reference the reference again according to david wood was al-iktaan phil al quran page 351 okay is there a volume or just give you a page that's the only information i get so that's interesting um 351 you said 351 is okay so i have the whole it's gone here it's the original is actually in three volumes none of those volumes go past 320 okay so this volume the special pages ends right this is the second volume that begins here which goes to the end of it which is 278 it ends it is the third volume and it goes on to 279 and then it ends so and then the last volume here and at 242 first off right so this is a full volume work i have it printed in one volume i none of those references would make any sense because you couldn't look it up in the actual book i don't know where you're doing it from secondly that's not a verse in the quran that i know of if it's not on let them know that's not a hadith explicitly by those words i've never heard that hadith if there is i'd love to see it in a book of hadith we can look at the chain of narrations if it's a statement of shiuti himself or if he's referencing somebody else those are people's statements right in the quran and the sahih hadith we don't find anything like this with those words right so this is really them but but since we're on the subject of uh sex and sexualization and things i've got a bible i'm not talking about some christian scholars writing 900 years after jesus or some priests in some monastery with some boy i don't mean all that let's leave all that aside let's take the bible itself let's talk about lot and him having drunken sex with his daughters where is that in the that i'm not again i would love to see david would come and bring me a verse from the quran i believe in it and i'll explain it or authentic hadith from the prophet from bukhari muslim abud awd ibn majah and nisa i jamia imam ahmad al bazar any of these books of hadith and give the chain and we'll look at that because they're weak hadith as well but from the bible itself you're talking about a man who's called a righteous man in the new testament so don't try to get out of oh no you know having repeated not one night multiple nights drunk and sex with two different daughters that's incest well let's talk about david i mean if you talk about david you know he in the in the old testament you will see that he looked at a woman taking a bath this is in the bible right and we can give you references if you like i mean i i can go get my bible and show you right now no no i know them okay um and and he likes this woman and he's called a prophet again they try to oh no i've got a bible verse he's called a prophet so david who's in the new testament called a prophet he sees this woman she's taking a bath she's a married woman and he brings her and he whether by force or not or you know he has sex with her and her husband is a soldier in david's army and this is a prophet in the bible and then not not just that i'm not talking about virgin's in heaven and how this is a somebody's wife you're committing adultery with with your own soldier's wife until she gets pregnant and then when he figures out she's pregnant he has job send her husband back who is a righteous good soldier and then he sends a letter with him to job and say hey put him in the front lines so he can be killed because i got his wife pregnant david come on man you want to talk about perversion and sexuality let's get the bible and let's take a look don't go to alam al quran and a book that was a reference that you don't understand that's not in the quran itself that's not in sahih hadith let's talk about the bible right so these things are just done in islamophobic manner most authentic hadith will never have explicit wordings like penis and vagina these you just don't find because they're not you will not find such wording in the quran or sahih hadith in those words right yeah you will have references to intercourse because obviously that's a part of human life but it would i have never found an authentic narration that mentions those wording it's not in the quran for sure it's not in a book of hadith that i've seen i have never i've studied the book and i didn't come across such a quote but if it isn't there it's going to be in reference to somebody's statement not to original text itself all right on yeah i didn't know that as i said for me and first when i heard from david wood i thought okay this is in the quran done deal right this is explains the 72 versions and then knowledge is also not in the quran no it's not in the quran what are your thoughts on that there is a hadith for it and yeah i mean when we talk about the different things in in hadith and things there is context to understand what does it mean to be a martyr and so on i mean we do believe that there are spouses in paradise that are from the women of paradise but the prophet please we have also told us that the women of this world the world will be your wives in paradise so if you are married and you know like the prophet nobody's a single person in in in paradise so if you're a woman it was never married you will be married in paradise you will live a happy life if you're married to a woman in this world then you and her both make it paradise and you want to live together it can be you and her and you can live your life but any if you if you control your desires in this world and Allah blesses you with beautiful women in paradise and that's something Allah blesses you with you know as as the other beautiful things of paradise are a reward nothing wrong with that let's continue with the claims of islam of hopes etc because those are the things that are consistently my subconscious while researching islam you know it is what it is the only time that i really put my bias aside was when i was reading the Quran itself and it had a transformative effect on myself right just by leaving the bias aside and just looking at it completely far far away from what i saw in germany or in mesudonia or whatnot that was amazing however now further researching into it i always get reminded of those claims you know be it david would be it whatever ask away we'll clear those up before you i'm gonna i'm gonna line up the points the main points that they've made about prophet muhammad and we can go through them point by point okay so the claims are again allegedly allegedly based on buhari muslim and kitab al-hudud so the first one is that prostitution was allegedly legalized by prophet muhammad the next one is he got poisoned by a jewish woman which husband he killed then he killed hundreds of people including children in banu koreja and took the widowed women and girls as sex slaves then the next one has been discussed a billion times aisha's age let's take them one by one okay let's take one by one so first one prostitution was allegedly legalized by prophet muhammad that is uh and the reason he didn't bring that in front of me is because he knows that that's just a bold lie there was a practice called mut'a and this is something that shia the rafa does still have which was a pre-islamic practice meaning before islam this was a practice among the arab like drinking alcohol like gambling and it was forbidden in stages there is a book in sahih muslim which i have here um where in a hadith the prophet pfp upon him he said that this is something that was halal that was permissible before because the ruling had not come but now allah has made it haram till the day of judgment meaning it was forbidden now many evils were there in in arab society burying of of daughters right and these things were forbidden by islam but in stages now imagine if all the ruling aisha radiyan has she has a beautiful hadith that if all the rulings came at one time people wouldn't be able to handle it people used to drink they used to gamble they used to do all context to have prosecution the women would have multiple men that would come visit and they would just pick one this is the father all this kind of stuff all right that's and what if one day they said all of that's gone people human nature they can't handle it's like taking a kid into kindergarten and telling him here's here's the book on physics and uh you know it's calculus and uh no you can't handle it so everything even the stopping of drinking alcohol was in stages it was a stage you just couldn't pray when you're drunk there's a stage where you should better stay away with that stage completely forbidden right so like that in stages the practice of mut'a was made haram first was only in certain situations then it was allowed only during battles because the people couldn't handle it and then as the final ruling as the ruling of islam today is mut'a was made haram till the day of judgment that's in sahih muslim the hadith from the prophet peace be upon him uh so no that claim is just totally false that practice was there pre islam islam and the prophet peace be upon him forbidden we as muslim today do not believe in prostitution we don't believe in mut'a we don't believe in this we have nikah which is the marriage the zawaj and that's the only way for sexual intercourse is the proper islamic halal way that's one that's a very very interesting explanation man because i talked to shears and they still practice it apparently where they marry a woman and then divorce her afterwards yes the mut'a doesn't actually have a marriage they have a time contract and unfortunately this is something that they practice but this is wrong and it's in sahih muslim in the quran even when Allah revealed that the verses about marriage and being the way this means that those pre islamic practices were forbidden if the shea practice it this is their mistake but the vast majority of the muslims around the world you will see will clearly know based on the authentic sahih hadith that is something Allah made haram till the day of judgment right on let's continue he got poisoned by a jewish woman which husband he killed i was reacting to a video just recently and there i don't know exactly who it was zakr naik i believe and he said that Muhammad died a natural death and for me that was a surprise because i only heard that he got poisoned by that jewish woman from david no he he the i have a series on the life of the prophet peace be upon him more authentic sources and we talked about the death of the prophet peace be upon him he did not die as a direct result of the poisoning even though he felt the pain of some of that poisoning even at the time of death but regarding the woman herself this was not something that caused the death directly meaning it was not like he got poisoned and then he died from it but the poison had an effect and he felt some of the pain of it and there's a great wisdom in that his death was a natural death meaning that Allah had written for him and he died at that time he was not killed he was not stabbed he was not shot you know that kind of thing but Allah gave him the status of a martyr even though a Allah didn't allow that somebody in battle would take down his prophet right so but he was given that status by having that he was poisoned earlier and he felt some of that pain from it so that he is given the status of a martyr without being killed in battle because he was killed in battle than people like oh what kind of a prophet gets killed even though we know prophets of humans humans die but but this is the wisdom of Allah there's a deep wisdom in that but his death was not directly due to the poisoning that is incorrect and her husband being killed for the poisoning is incorrect that's incorrect reference regarding this will take us into and what happened at Haibar and by the way if you look up the One Message Foundation channel I had a debate when I caught David Woods ignorance in this where he didn't even realize that Haibar was was close to Medina you know he didn't realize what happened he thought as if the prophet peace fell went into Haibar and just massacre Jews this is historically incorrect and I mean I have references that I marked to show him but he ran away and never came back and now the channel is gone so I won't be able to show him but I mean if you like I can bring them here but I can just tell you about it you can just tell me it's one the battle of khandak was a battle when the when the Arab tribes from outside of Medina attacked Medina there was a contract amongst the people of Medina that we will defend Medina together whether you're Muslim whether you're Jewish whether you're an idol worshipper whatever you are doesn't matter there was a peace treaty that we will not if the Jews are attacked from outside the Muslims would defend them it was to say that we are together as a community in Medina to protect Medina and this was a contract made when the battle of khandak happened and the different Arab tribes attacked Medina the Jews of Banu Qureyda, Banu Qayruqah, Banu Nadeer these are three tribes they betrayed that treaty this is not all Jews this is a particular tribe that were a part of that treaty not only did they help the enemies they sent them weapons they sent them soldiers and on top of that they tried to attack the Muslim women and children during the battle because the men had gone out to dig a trench that's what's called khandak so that people don't get any Muslims and Jews were all protected by the Muslims there but these Jews even tried to attack the Muslims and this is I have a book here I mean I can show you some of the books and see that that had marked up to show just so he understands but because he's just googling he's not looking at actual books even the references he does he gets from online sources and websites which have a lot of mistakes that's why we try to use books so here now when the battle finished the Muslims realized that a part that the treason had taken place then yes those people that were involved in trying to attack Muslims and help the enemies and they betrayed the treaty they were killed as part of treason that was part of the deal makes sense women and children were not killed this is a lie women and children were not killed even some of the children that were involved in the fighting were left alive when they because there were children some of them that were a little bit older where they could make their decision yes they were because they were a part of the force that was used in that treason and that attack on the Muslims during the battle of Khandaq this is what happened now other Jews and other parts of Arabia that still had treaties with Muslims even after the time of the Prophet peace be upon him in the time of Abu Bakr and Umar and Osman and Ali radiallum they were Jews they used to come in and rack with Muslims this is a particular situation of situation of war where there was a treaty and there was a treason made and those that did the treason were put to death as was the contract between the Muslims and the people of Madinah at the time fair enough okay next one Aisha's age age of Aisha excellent i have a longer video on this so you can watch that for more detail but i'll give a brief answer regarding the age of Aisha radiallum there is nothing in the Quran about it there's no verse in the Quran that discuss the age there's nothing from the Prophet peace be upon him where he mentioned her age there's no hadith we call Marfu'a i mean where the Prophet peace be upon him said about her age we do have narrations from her and we have some in Bukhari we have some in Muslim and there are some discrepancies between those narrations and not okay again like i want to be very clear i'm not denying those narrations because they are authentic but what does that mean that the chain of narrators do go back to her and she made certain statements um the one in Sahih Muslim for example it mentions that she was seven at the age of engagement where the where the engagement took place and she was nine at the time of the actual consummation of marriage the one in Bukhari one of them and another one in Sahih Muslim mentioned six and nine and so on so and these are authentic narrations Imam Muslim he has Sahih Muslim the most famous explanation is called a Sharh of Sahih Muslim by Imam An-Nabawi Imam An-Nabawi a later scholar but still a very classic scholar he discusses the differences why different ages were given and so on so this is not something we're rewriting history with or something rather what we do know is that ages were not well kept at the time because there was no calendar imagine if i asked her age but there was no date there was no 1990 1980 2000 none of that right basically the Arabs would go by the events of a year like the year of the elephant where the elephants attacked Mecca or so on when they would have certain events we kind of remember dates from that that's why many of the companions even Khatija the first wife of the Prophet peace be upon him we have different opinions about her age at the time of marriage ranging from 25 and 28 which is more authentic to all the way from 40 40 years range yeah the the narration for 40 is actually a weak narration but you find in most of the history books but the point being until the hijri calendar began in the time of Omar meaning after the death of the Prophet ﷺ after the death of Abu Bakr and the time of Omar the first Muslim calendar developed the hijri which we still use today so how would she really know her age why did she give two different ages probably because this was an estimate based on what people told her it doesn't mean that she's a weak narrator she's a very strong narrator of hadith she's amazing but obviously she wasn't present minded at her own birth right meaning if you ask me my age i'm going to ask somebody like my mom or check my passport or my birth certificate well if you don't have a passport or a bird certificate not even a year numbering system and basically you're going to rely upon other people older sister hey you know when was i born well i think you're born around this a years you're about this age it's going to be an approximate and then on the night even my father's generation he doesn't exactly know when he was born it's an estimate as well and there's just one generation back in Macedonia exactly i mean even if you look at a lot of the Somali citizens that we have in America today all of their birth dates are January 1st i don't know what happened nine months before January 1st but somehow they're because they didn't in Somalia they didn't really care it just didn't really matter to them when they came here they just kind of put that at their birth date so the point being that's not really something in the Quran or it's not a part of the Islamic belief as we say it's not something the Prophet peace be upon him told us so this whole big deal that has been made is just trying to distract what we do know of authentic Hadi that she was already engaged at that time so that means in the Arabian society whatever age she exactly was it was the age that girls would usually get engaged and they would wait till they were physically capable of bearing children which you know usually would be indicated through Haid which is the menstrual cycle which is the natural way of letting you know a woman is ready and then they would go ahead and consummate the marriage so that was society of that time and that was correct and none of the pagans none of the enemies of Islam ever objected to that marriage as unusual for that society so now let's talk about recent time my grandmother was married at 14 you know my other grandmother from others I was married at 12 right yeah and that is just like I said and like you said it's very recent now today in America we would find that unacceptable right but it is incorrect for us to judge history by our standards right because absolutely today why do we not have girls get married at 14 and 15 for example is because they got a very high school and they want to go to college yeah that's true but in a society where you don't have high school you don't have middle school you don't have elementary school you don't have colleges you don't have universities once a boy is physically capable he gets married once a girl is physically naturally indicative that she can produce children she gets married that's how that society runs so the marriage of Ayesha was at an age that was perfectly acceptable for the society of that time whether she was nine at the time when they actually consummated or older as her older sister some of the narrations mentioned doesn't really matter what matters is that she was of the right age for marriage for that society we have in America many presidents they got married to girls that were underage according to our standard of 18 today we have Elvis Presley Elvis Presley a younger girl you have I mean if you go to Europe all your kings right yeah and since we're on the subject you know how old was Rebecca according to biblical references when she got married in the bible three right so I'm just saying that if David Wood or any of the Islamophobes want to be just and honest about it well according to the majority of the biblical scholars Mary was about 12 when she got married they might come back oh no no no Mary's age is not in the bible well Ayesha's age is not in the Qur'an right but if you go to any historical references like the catholic encyclopedia and others they will mention that she was around 12 to 14 years of age and Joseph according to those references was around 90 at the time and you know they had sexual intercourse afterwards as most references will mention and you know she was married to him at that age now today that would not be acceptable but then people say oh no no no at that society that's when Jewish girls would get married okay well then Arabian society that's when Arabian girls would get married all right yeah I just want to point out the hypocrisy again here in the west if you look into what teenagers do everybody knows that it's an open book when they hit puberty they go out partying that promiscuous sex teen pregnancy etc etc so this is nature this is God showing you that the bodies are fully functioning and instead of using it productively like your grandparents in that case they use it absolutely in the wrong way and end up yeah never married single mom households whatever there's a school in San Diego I used to be a teacher's assistant when I was going to college in that school and they have a daycare for the girls and it's a middle school right that means sixth seventh eighth grade and I remember there was a 12 year old girl that had a child in that school now imagine that means she was sexually active at 11 or under right and nobody considers that to be a illegal act here in America today right she did it she's not in jail her boyfriend that she had the child was not in jail right right if that is okay for people to have sex at that age then why wouldn't they get married at that age if they're ready for it right absolutely in Islam we have books of fiqh jurisprudence and what those books like al-mughni and al-majboa they tell us is marriage has to do with physical readiness and mental capability of a person meaning if you're in a society where through menstrual cycles or whatever else you are ready and that's not the only thing there are other indicators that can be taken for sexual intercourse and you want to get married at that age we cannot say no you cannot right because if you don't like some societies the average lifespan is around 30 years of age and even till today it's interestingly and if that is true and you tell somebody you have to wait to be 21 to get married who's going to raise the kids right everybody's gonna like by the time you're 10 your parents are dead right and in earlier society you had certain things like that as well so you know in accordance to the society of that sign and this is why none of the polytheists none of the jews or christians or atheists or anybody else in that society ever objected to that marriage because that was the norm of society makes sense okay let's move on to the next one this concerns the prophethood itself or the revelation itself it's a two-part question so angel gabriel never revealed himself as gabriel according to my knowledge and his wife told him that he is the prophet to muhammad even though muhammad was scared of his experience so for example in the bible from what we've seen is that the angel gabriel actually introduces himself to marry but it's not the same interface not the same respondents with prophet moments yeah so that's actually incorrect the angel gabriel did introduce himself as the angel not once but repeatedly and you will find in the Quran references to when the angel gabriel showed his actual form to the prophet muhammad peace be upon him the prophet muhammad peace be upon him at the first incident he was in shock and as anybody else would be you know having given that huge responsibility at the age of 40 so when he went to his wife she comforted him and she told him that you are a honest man and Allah would not allow somebody as good as you who is somebody who keeps the trust who's always been honest never lied to be misguided she comforted him but the angel gabriel came to the prophet peace be upon him in many forms repeatedly through his life introducing himself so this is one of the islamophobic lies because even in the hadith in al-bukhari he came and the companion saw him and he came at that time in the form of a man and he sat with the prophet sallam and he asked him questions the prophet sallam told the companion this is the angel gabriel and many times in authentic narrations he came and he asked permission to enter the house and he came and saw him and sometimes in his actual form which covers the sky sometimes in a in angelic form but less than that and sometimes in human form when the companions even saw that he was somebody that had no traces of travel and he had very clean clothes and he was not from madina so they were shocked and the prophet sallam told him this is gibriel and he's come to teach you the religion by asking questions the very famous hadith authentic hadith in al-bukhari where the five pillars of islam and six pillars of iman are mentioned in that hadith and so on so so though he definitely did introduce himself repeatedly and there is no doubt to that prophethood very good to know this is something that i didn't know i learned something so after this questioning we are pretty much through with those questions i just want to hear it from you as a sheikh how you would describe prophet muhammad his character his actions he's been called the perfect example how would you describe him the prophet muhammad peace and blessings be upon him was human we don't worship him we don't consider him to be god but no doubt in my mind at all that amongst humanity he was the best of them um other prophets were also excellent we don't we don't we don't try to put down any prophet jesus was an amazing person moses was an amazing person abraham was an amazing person peace and blessings beyond all of them that's one thing beautiful about islam we love all the prophet we love we respect all of them we take all of them to be equally a part of our belief meaning if i deny as a muslim david or moses or jesus or abraham peace and blessings be upon them i'm no longer a muslim that's a part of our belief right the prophet muhammad peace be upon him lived in a time where he showed us everything meaning like jesus for example he was never in a time where he had to leave a state or he had to defend against a war or get married and deal with children right his lifespan and again as muslims we don't believe that he's finished that he's he's not dead he was raised to Allah and he will come back but his life in this worldly life as was here until he was taken up to Allah was very short so we don't see a lot of these things right but the prophet muhammad peace be upon him 63 years was his life when he passed away from this worldly life so that tells you that all of those states were known and if we look at and again like i said i have a series on the life of the prophet peace be upon him it's on the one message foundation channel and it's also on the mirzribad channel we have the beginning all talking about him as a person and what is authentic sahih hadid anas ibn malik one of the young companions who was there as a servant not a slave but he was there to serve the prophet peace be upon him he said i served him and he never got upset he never told me uff even which is the lightest word of displeasure he never told me why didn't you do this why did you do this the prophet muhammad peace be upon him never hit a wife he never hit his children he was such a beautiful character i mean in a there is a hadith where he playing with his wife aisha he pokes her chest a little bit and they're like oh he abused his wife aisha radian herself says the prophet never hit and this is his companionship he used to joke with his wives he used to race with them and and they would win the race sometimes and he would win because he would have that loving relationship he had an example of tolerance that i cannot imagine you know people slandered him people hit him with rocks blood would flow from his head and fill his shoes and he had the ability that he could destroy those people but he forgave them the people of taif in mecca when he was victorious when Allah gave him victory in mecca he didn't say you i remember you said bad to me i'm gonna kill you no other than people that had committed war crimes and things he came in with being humble his beard touching his camel he was he was lowered that much and he came in a way of forgiveness he said whoever goes in this house they're forgiven whoever goes to the cabba he's forgiven whoever goes here they're forgiven i like imagine that somebody kicks you out of your house kills your companions causes the deaths of your wife's to the hardship that khatija went through caused the death of abu talib your uncle to the hardships killed your uncle hamsa and you forgive them look at that beautiful example the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he showed us how to be a leader of a state he showed us how to lead a war how to defend a people he showed us all those things because those are things we go through humans have wars if we say okay you know this is the islam doesn't breathe in hypocrisy right christians will say we turned the other cheek but you know that's hypocrisy i i challenge any christian come to me let me slap you a good bam let me hit you hard and let me see you turn the other cheek right so it's hypocrisy you're saying something you don't do turn the other cheek why does every christian country have an army why do we have police why do we have uh us invading iraq why do we have the why do we have crusades why did we have crusaders with your swords and and spears and and where's the pacifism this is hypocrisy right in islam we don't believe in hypocrisy yes there's the time to defend you you don't do the love you don't do oppression you don't we don't believe in terrorism we don't believe in killing innocent people but there is a time if you're going to kill me i'm going to defend myself that's a truth yes so i see the prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him to be a perfect example in all those situations right it's not a his life is better documented than any other historical figure everything from what he ate and how he slept and what he did when he first woke up and mella reward aisha the wife of the prophet peace be upon him that she is the one that really one of the greatest narrators of hadith because of her we know a lot of those personal details everything about him and with that scrutiny to have that great character that michael heart a non-muslim who wrote 100 most influential people in the world put him as number one shows you what a great amazing person he was peace and blessings be upon him beautiful my personal question about this is because he is seen by yourself as well as this perfect role model as muslims should you or shouldn't you distinguish between the prophets should there be an exalted position for Muhammad's like when you become a muslim do you see Muhammad as higher slightly or are they all the same prophets of God so there is three aspects to that one is our belief we believe in all of them equally meaning that a part of the Islamic belief is to believe in all of the prophets we can't reject any of them second is a love and respect we have for all of them meaning the prophet peace of himself said don't praise me over you Eunice like don't say oh he's better than Eunice and another hadith he said don't praise me over Musa so don't compare between prophets and this one is better and this one we don't do that but we don't do sorry to interrupt and don't do what the Christians have done to Jesus right exactly don't over exaggerate my status or start praying to me or through me and all this stuff that some Muslims do do which is wrong but at the same time we do know that he was the Sayyid of Ibn Adam he is the leader of all of the children of Adam on the dear judgment he is the one that will do the intercession for all of mankind and we know he's the last of all prophets so he has that status we don't deny that status that he is the one that led all of the prophets in prayer for example right but we don't sit around saying oh he's better than this prophet we don't do that right we love him and we love all the prophets peace and blessings be upon all of them beautiful okay next short burst question this is of extremely big interest to me personally because I do love dogs I do love drawing pictures as well so why are those things haram we have music question we have dogs we have chess even pictures and drawing animated beings and I love chess too I will go through I will go through all those with you but first thing I will say is the most important thing is the belief right so when we're talking about Islam and kufr and all of that the most important thing you need to think to yourself is do I believe there is one great creator that created everything that is the one soul power of the universe that runs everything that is the shahada that nothing else should be worship except him and do I believe that he sent prophets that he sent those messengers the first of them being adam and the last king Muhammad peace and blessings be upon them this is the core of Islam that you have to first believe except reject right then we get into particular rulings and madaheb and fiqh these are what we call the nitty gritties of it right yeah if you haven't gone through that first I wouldn't really go worry about I will explain them today anyway but I'm just saying that we shouldn't let any of that render us because Allah if we believe there is a creator we believe there is Allah that Allah knows better than me whether I should drink or not drink read pork or not eat pork then if Allah says haram it's haram now regarding dogs we as muslims love dogs there's nothing against dogs there is the mention of the cald the dog of ashab al kaf the people of the cave in the Quran and his praise and so on there were companions that own dogs for hunting and they asked the rulings of those and we have nothing against that so if somebody has a dog for a purpose whether it is for shepherding or guarding or hunting and from an extension of that emotional support or ci dogs in Islam that is permissible right when there is a purpose when people have dogs without purpose and they use them in a way that is against the nature of the dog then in Islam that's not allowed meaning you know a dog has a nature to it right like some dogs are naturally good shepherds some are naturally good guard dogs when you take that and you put little bows on them and you put them around little kids and you act as if it's like a mouse it's not and that's why you have every year so many children that are killed by their own dogs masters that are bit and so on because they're taking something Allah made with a certain role and giving it a different role right and that's wrong it's oppression to the dog if you have a dog for shepherding like I said or if you have a dog for hunting or if you have a dog to protect your house or if you have a dog because it helps you get around as a seeing eye dog or any of those things that's halal that's fine no problem with that but you know don't take a dog and a little kiss it on the mouth and act like I make it your baby make it your baby yeah I see a lot of that in the west before you proceed I just want to clarify quickly why I'm so interested in those little nitty gritties the details because the thing is I'm completely honest here with you and transparent I always conduct myself like that on youtube as well I treat my subscribers as friends the point is that I always dive into everything I do deeply so I will find out about everything even if I would take Shahada I would make research my mission on a daily basis I would have to actually and this is why those little things that are now on my way I have to discuss them prior before taking no problem I will explain all those things the reason I was saying is because sometimes what happens is shaytan gets you to procrastinate and this is one of the tricks of the devil that we know so if you have the belief you shouldn't procrastinate but any question you have I'm here for you until we do your Shahada and then after that as well thank you very much okay next one after dorks let's go with music or some music even though if I look at pop culture I could already assume why it is haram but excellent what an explanation so in Islam we have certain forms of music that's halal right one of them being the what we call spoken word meaning poetry and beautiful wording that comes out nothing wrong with that some of the greatest scholars like a chef and others were great poets some of the companions of the Prophet peace be upon him like Hassan ibn thabit was a great poet the Prophet was not a poet peace be upon him because Allah chose somebody that wasn't a poet that wasn't literate to reveal the Quran to show is a miraculous book he didn't write it but there were later people who became Muslim like Hassan ibn thabit radiallahu anhu was a great poet so nothing wrong with that there is an instrument called the duff and that is permissible in certain situations and there are hadith on that and there's references to that so that is also permissible now when we go with general music it has it scientifically we have researched this issue it has an effect on people meaning your mood your like you said about hip-hop or even heavy metal culture i have seen a mosh pit i don't know if you know what a mosh pit is yeah okay i have seen people that i knew in high school they were very timid gentle good people and when they were in that mosh pit and the music was blurring and the wording was such they were punching people they were picking they were and i was shocked at how different they became became because of that i don't know if you know marvin gay is but we call that baby making music because it would have an effect on people of course that would lead them to certain things so in his his father sorry to interrupt again his father allegedly killed marvin because he was a believing christian and he thought that his music is not permissible so that is the conspiracy behind that that's interesting i didn't know that i learned something from you um so so this is why music generally is not allowed in islam because it has an effect on people that can take them to decisions that would regularly not be good for them right not that this happens every time right but islam is a religion that looks at the general good for mankind right so there are certain things that were left permissible to give you that leeway the duff in certain situations and poetry and and spoken word and those things that's fine but other situations would then for forbidden like guitars and things like that because then it's very hard to draw the line right where do you stop somebody from saying okay this is now becoming into something that's making you uh you know into a satanic weird mindset like you know very recently there was a rap concert in the us i forgot the name of the rapper um but you know there was such a frenzy made that people were stomping on other people and he continued the music you know that right it's there's you have to kind of step away from your own personal desires to see the bigger picture i mean i can tell you i come from a background where i was involved in gangs and many times when we were about to do something violent or a fight we would put on a rap song that had some really violent because it would get you pumped up for it no get you pumped up so yes yeah so so this is why that is something forbidden in Islam but there are permissible forms and again if a muslim does listen to music it doesn't make him a taffer it doesn't make him not muslim everybody has their shortcomings some people they may become muslim and they still listen to music and then slowly slowly they replace that with the quran and things that are more beneficial and so on mm-hmm okay interesting answer how about chess i don't find anything negative in chess actually during this whole pandemic i stopped playing chess a lot and i thought that it is a great benefit to me personally right regarding chess there is a hadith in sahi muslim um some of the scholars of islam like imam eshafi he understood it to not reference the game itself but rather the waste of time that comes with it um other scholars like imam ahmed and malik they took it but the thing is in islam you have to be careful when anything kind of distracts you so much that it takes away from the purpose of your life like i have seen people including some relatives of mine that play chess for hours and hours a day until they start missing prayers until they start you know missing and not just chess i mean many other video games i mean you can take anything take talk videos whatever so in essence the issue is that when those sorts things start taking you away from your obligations then it becomes a distraction to the purpose of your life like i said regarding chess there's a difference of opinions among scholars of islam about the game itself imam eshafi one of the very early and amazing scholars he considered the game it itself impermissible and the hadith to be more in reference to the general games that waste time and take you away from your obligations than anything else yeah that makes absolute perfect sense again especially if you project that onto modern day games such as video games i mean obviously we don't even have to talk about how that is one of the greatest distractions we have nowadays there are kids that play 12 to 14 hours a day i'm not talking about an extreme case you know in japan and china there's actually they have actual mental health facilities to get kids off of games and things so so of course and again if you were to play some games in moderation and other than like dice games or games that have gambling not like other things nothing wrong with that but when anything gets to be where it starts to distract you from the purpose of your life that's problematic that makes perfect sense i think it wasn't japan that a player of world of warcraft he didn't move for a few days and that's how they realized that he died alone in his apartment in this little cubicle yeah that's scary because of dehydration he just kept on playing yeah it's scary okay next one is pictures or slash drawing animated beings so regarding drawings to draw scenery or to mountains or things like there's nothing wrong with that when you draw things that have a soul if you draw it complete this is something islam forbids because of the fact that it does lead to things not that it by itself is worshiping an idol but it could lead to it and we know in the past like the calm of noah noah those things like building making pictures led them after generations but it led them to worshiping idols so we don't allow that but if you are an artist you can make pictures but you leave some things like either you leave part of the body undone or you don't make a full picture or as many muslim artists that will do they'll they won't make the eyes or they'll leave like something some imperfection in there so it doesn't start to lead to being something that would take you towards idol worship or something like this and again if there's a benefit to the drawing like ibn khuddamah one of the great scholars in al-mughni says that if it's to teach people for example then it's permissible so you could draw but you will have some restrictions in the sense that you don't make it so perfect as if you're trying to imitate the creation or you're trying to make it where you want it to be something that draws your attention so much that you now want to hang it look at it and maybe your kids will come and start looking at it and go you know maybe that was some amazing being or something like this you know so you have to establish and prevention instead of cure so you can still draw within those constraints inshallah that's beautiful man this really clarified a lot for me personally because i just saw this black and white world where now there are no pictures anymore there is no song no i mean like i said i mean walk a dog no no we have i mean if you go to muslim countries like my uncle he's a hunter he has many great dogs my family in the village they all have dogs because they have farms you know i have friends in san diego that are very good practicing muslims that have dogs for legitimate reasons and you know we have some rules and regulations with them they're muslim artists that are well known throughout the world you know in all kinds of art and obviously the nasheed the islamic songs within the boundaries of nasheed are beautiful they're used i mean we we hear them in all muslim countries alhamdulillah okay perfect now we come to the christian questions the last remaining christian christians if jesus is not the son of god who is the father he was born of mary and god impregnated her so to speak through the holy spirit according to christianity so who is the father excellent question uh jesus peace and blessings be upon him was a prophet and he was born miraculously without a father he doesn't have a father and that's not something strange if you look in the bible you will find adam didn't have a father you will find eve didn't have a father or mother doesn't mean god is their biological father you will find people referenced as children of god like solemn as the son of god israel as the son of god in the bible it is a term of endearment used for them so we say that jesus peace and blessings be upon him has no father god is not the physical father of anybody god orders and we are right in a term of endearment maybe in aramaic you could call god the father in the sense of endearment maybe i don't know aramaic well enough to say that but no doubt that physically god is not the father of anybody he is above needing children or a wife or mother or dad or any of that kind of thing um as adam and eve had no father and no mother they were miraculously born by the order of god jesus was miraculously born without a father by the order of god so the differentiation is essentially being created and not being made by the father or exactly all of us were created by god's order before we were in the wombs of our mothers we were souls right a lot ordained in this world that we have a father and mother but if a lot orders it like adam and eve you're born without a father and mother as jesus was peace and blessings be upon all of them speaking about adam and eve this is something again of particular interest to me personally the christian narrative of adam and eve eve essentially convicts basically adam to sinning she brings him to sin she listens to the devil to the snake and adam starts listening to her this story is actually very dear to me because i've seen it in my personal life so this is going to sound very misogynistic but at the same time every time we as men we start listening to women rather than to god so to speak rather than to understand to ourself right and then to god we kind of get of stray i'm sure that plenty of men have experienced that and if not then i would even make the argument that then you haven't listened closely and haven't observed closely what is going on within your life and even within islam obviously we have a male and female structure the man is of course i believe the leading person so this is why this this story of origin made so much sense to me that instead of listening to god adam listened to the woman but in islam it's a bit different in islam it's different islam we don't actually blame eve for it rather we say they both were tempted by the devil and they listen to the devil instead of listening to god we based our narration on authentic sources and so on we don't go with biblical sources because they have so much of the changes in it and so on having said that the prophet peace be upon him did warn us that one of the first things that destroyed the earlier nations like bin israel was the fitna the trials and tributions that came through women and a lot of the jealousies and misinformation they gave to husbands and so on and this is something that we should be very careful about women are in many ways very intelligent and very capable in many ways there's certain things that they have weaknesses and and men have their own strong points and weaknesses everybody has their role in islam the man is the leader he's the decision maker yes he can consult his wife and his children but he is the head of the household he's responsible for the household and he needs to make those decisions and those decisions are the final decisions in a household all right yeah so in islam that is no different right yeah yeah now i just simply like the analogy because it made so much sense to me that adam actually listened to the woman enough to god this how he went off stray anyways another question for me and this is really important for me to understand is you mentioned the injil at the beginning of our talk we don't really know what the injil is because we don't really have it now right the question that i'm having is out of an islamic perspective jesus preaches monotheism but he's preaching that in the land of the jews right so they are already monotheistic they already worshiped one god so what is the injil what could it have been what did he really preach in those lands excellent jesus peace and blessings be upon him he preached monotheism as every prophet preached monotheism the jews were monotheistic but there are many sects amongst jews that worshiped idols they worshiped the golden calf for example they worshiped wealth in many ways they corrupted the law in many ways they charged as we know historically they charged people to go to church or in the synagogue or in the place of the worship in the temple which was wrong so he came to rectify the law he came to correct the law and that's what many prophets did before him even moses preached monotheism two jews were monotheistic but they had gone astray so he came to correct the people and to bring them back on track the injil is the revelation that was given to the prophet jesus peace and blessings be upon him aspects of it may be in the new testament today meaning certain teachings from it may have come down in those traditions but we know the new testament as it is today was written in koneik greek as you mentioned and was written centuries later so it is not the injil itself but some aspects of those teachings could be there how do we know what's right from wrong we evaluate with the Quran okay all right plenty of questions that are written down you already answered whilst speaking about it so i want to jump to my last chapter of questioning so to speak questions about reverting and i think this is the most important part obviously excellent if i would revert would i need to circumcise first and foremost big question um regarding circumcision for men it's a part of the tradition that has been there from the time of the earlier prophets and in Islam um and the general rule is that if somebody does revert yes they go and get circumcised but we also know that due to age and time and place that may not be possible for everybody right so we would have to look at the situation whether you are capable whether there is a medical facility or ability to do it safely in a way that wouldn't harm your health then yes if that is not the case then you are not held accountable for something that's out of your capability you don't just you know fork this is a beautiful thing that was done Allah never burned the soul more than they can handle if you are capable and able and there is a there is a way then yes you would and if there isn't due to your being of older age and not having the medical facilities or that around you then we don't worry about that i mean Allah doesn't burden you more than somebody can handle so that's not an issue i'm not 20 anymore so i'm a bit older i'm 35 already and circle circumcision usually when you're very young i mean if you're past 10 uh that that just becomes a problem later so yeah but that's my question as well so for me as the head of the household right i'm a father now my son is almost one and a half years old if i would revert what would i have to do with my son i would have to bring him to circumcision right i mean so if your son is young enough that you can get him circumcised then you should i mean there are also great health benefits to it i mean from the cleansing aspect of it and so on but again depending on your country and depending on resources like in america for a child that's past six months it's very difficult to find a place that they can get circumcised so a lot of the brothers that revert if their children are one or two or three or 10 or 12 um it's just not possible for them or it's very expensive so we don't push the issue because a lot doesn't burden them more than they can handle um but if in the country you're at you can find a medical facility that will that will take care of it in a way that's safe and sanitary then definitely you should right on another question that i have and this is especially important for me personally because coming from an orthodox christian background right this already a sect so to speak of christianity even though orthodoxy would claim that it is the original christianity of course but then you look deeper into it maybe it was the gnostic christians maybe it was arius etc etc we don't know that i got very fed up with sects looking into catholicism protestantism it was annoying so when i read the quran and it claimed this is for the believers right this for the muslims and you shouldn't divide into sects i said oh thank god this is beautiful yeah exactly what i want i don't want to belong to any type of sect but then you look deeper into it and then you see sony shea etc etc different schools of thought could i become just a muslim and not a shea sony whatever for sure and that's what i suggest is you just become muslim um we as muslims the vast majority of muslims are not in any sect they're just muslim sometimes we're called ahlu sunnah and jama'ah because the prasulam said said aleykum by sunnah to the japanese sunnah to be on the way of the prophet and a jama'ah means actually to come together as one group not to separate right shea is a sect uh ismaili qadiani uh nation all these little groups these are sects that break away and that's wrong we give them advice to don't break away from the bigger muslim body that is one muslim body but if and inshallah when you do today become a muslim you will be just muslim that's all you got to worry about yes we have schools of thought that is not sect those are just different ways of deriving rulings and all of those are in agreement all those four great scholars were in one belief they were all i mean they weren't they didn't separate themselves in belief is this you know when we get into some details of you know should you put your hand here or here and you look at the different narrations like those things it's a scholarly work right but they're not sects um hanafi shafa e maliki hanbali these are schools they're not sects those bigger sects that we do have unfortunately these are people that have split away from the majority muslim body we would say to you don't worry about any of those you are muslim and that's all the title you need far enough that's really good to hear because yeah coming from the christian background it is extremely annoying so now i have a question this is something that i heard from sheikh asim al khakim and he was speaking about the muslim that is very weak at this stage and that once it becomes strong there could be an expensive jihad extensive jihad so this is something that i'm paraphrasing here but we were speaking about expansionist wars etc etc so my question is truly and i really mean this what am i signing up for right if i become muslim no really honestly i i got you i got you no problem i'm completely transparent here if i sign up is it is it my personal belief or do i sign up hey now we are strong enough we have plenty of people on board let's conquer the world let's go to war what is happening great question uh regarding uh sheikh asim's statement i won't comment because i don't know the context i don't know the exact wording but generally what i will say in islam we don't have a mindset of just conquer right that's not something ever in islam if you look at the time of the prophet peace be upon him he made treaties he made peace treaties he made alliances if you look at the companions of the prophet like abu bakar umar othman ali in their times they had different treaties they made with different nations and so on but at the same time when somebody attacks a muslim land then yes to defend it is a part of our responsibility if muslims like in spain if you look at the history are being tortured and killed then yes to defend them and even non-muslims to stop the oppression upon them is our responsibility but the muslim is never about just conquering and fighting this has never been the case this is not in the quran or hadith rather what we find is that even the muslim armies when they would go out in the time of the companions they would give options they would say look either allow us to spread the message let us get this message out and if you're going to stop us you know then there's going to be a problem if you want you keep your government you keep your kingdom you become muslim you stay in power but you change the your belief set and system to what Allah has ordained not to force the people if you don't want to do that don't don't become muslim we're not going to force people pay the jizyah you know you have your tax which as muslims we pay zakat you will have your jizyah that's how the government runs just like you pay taxes in america and the uk or in europe you everybody has different taxes and different brackets and all of that i rather pay the jizyah than the taxes trust me you know even if even if you look at jizyah and zakat many times depending on the how much wealth you have zakat will be more as a muslim why do we have jizyah why don't we make non-muslims pay our tax system like i live in america i pay tax i don't say hey i'm muslim i'm not going to pay taxes no this is our system but as muslims zakat is a religious obligation if we were to force a religious obligation on another religion then we would be forcing our religious religion on them so for them to live in the muslim land and not pay zakat and use all the facilities would not be fair so to put them okay you have your place you're here you're enjoying the services but that doesn't mean that you're going to take advantage of it you have to pay into the system as well if a non-muslim is not benefiting from those services there's no jizyah like in america we have non-muslim we don't tell them pay jizyah why because we don't have those services so the point being that you're not signing up to join any army there's no halifa there is right now i mean unfortunately in the time that we are we're pretty much scattered everywhere it's really a belief system if we get a united muslim body and everything in your lifetime and everything it doesn't mean we're just going to be like marching into countries no there has to be reasons there has to be negotiations there has to be treaties there has to be suburb for what we do right if somebody's stopping people from entering the paradise and stopping the message then yes we as if we have that power we give them that notice look you can't you have people have to be able to recognize their creator right if people are oppressing a people oppressing muslims and yes we defend them but unfortunately right now that's not even a factor because of the state that we're in even when the muslims had power if you look at historically in the time of salauddin ayubi they didn't just go and attack spain and russia and stuff like this no even in jewsland you can look at history they allowed christians to have their churches they allowed jews to have their synagogues they allowed them to even practice their own personal law in according to their religious tradition a freedom that i don't have in america in america i cannot say i'm gonna as a Mormon or as a muslim i'm gonna marry a second wife legally you cannot even though that's in the Mormon tradition it's in the muslim tradition it's in many other religious traditions but they cannot i they're not given that right but under islam non muslims would be given that right to have their personal family law by their tradition right yes yeah that's actually correct i looked into the ottoman empire obviously coming from the Balkans and it's true otherwise we wouldn't have all of those old churches still intact i mean think of this what wouldn't the spanish do at the inquisition when they took spain from the moors they massacred all the muslims and all jews and other christians that didn't fit their minds that they genocided them right if the muslims had done that in spain you wouldn't have any of that if the muslims at the ottomans had done that if if salauddin a yubi had done that those muslims were not just looking at taking over lands or you know trying to enforce that's not the way islam works it's never worked like that i'm done now fair enough my last question is simply how would applied sharia ideally look like because right now i don't think we have many countries if at all that follow proper sharia how would that look like an ideal world for you excellent excellent um when we look at historically um like the times of the khulafa the the companions of the prophet peace be upon him uh and the time of the prophet himself peace and blessings be upon him and later like umber of adul aziz and those that applied the sharia correctly we saw a beautiful society a society where christians and jews can live according to their own traditions if they like and they can be productive members of the society a society where you have a safety even in the country that have some sharia law like saad arabia and others you will find much more of a safe society for your wife for your children as a father uh as as the leader of a household you'll feel comfortable in those societies more than societies where you have uh you know robberies and carjackings and you know i was recently in london when you look at the stabbings you go to la you go to i was in tijuana you look at the murders you wouldn't have that under sharia under sharia you have see it's not it's not pure it's prevention so let me ask you a very simple question and i'm i'm blunt like i'm straight about it like i'm i'm so sure you know if you knew that you could rob somebody and let's say in norway or sweden or one of those countries and you might if you get caught you might go to a jail where you have a tv and you have a workout bike i mean we see videos i mean i haven't been to a prison there but that's what we see yeah you might take that chance you know if you're you might take that chance but if you know that if you go and rip a woman's purse and take her stuff and even though you're not starving you're not in any kind of need you're mentally fine you're going to get your hand chopped off you're going to be walking on like this you're going to be overly honest because you don't want to take that chance now in the sharia we have checks and balances we check mental health we check with person who's in need person who's underage is not going to punish you have those checks and balances crimes have to be proven but the punishment is such that it prevents the crime in america we have a huge problem with prisons and prison gangs and people going to jail setup is wrong right everybody's like huh if i get locked up so what there's this and then you get locked up and then some guys trying to rape you and then you got to stab somebody and then it just rule the whole system and you don't rehabilitate you sit in prison for 10 years get stronger and build the club criminal network and come out and be a better criminal that's why the the rates of people going back to jail are sometimes in the upper 90s that's insane what are we doing in the sharia we don't have a jail system we're only we don't have a prison system we have a jail system you read somebody you check if it's proven if they get lashes if they get whipped or they nothing if they're innocent whatever you're done you go back to being a productive citizen and you remember those lashes you're like man i'm not going to do that again you know right i didn't know that that's very interesting i didn't know there would be a prison system at all we don't have a prison system yeah we have a jail system that you arrest before the case can go right it's the point of putting somebody in prison for 20 years uh what does society benefit your taxes pay 70 80 000 a year to keep somebody in a hole that you know mentally being tortured no benefit and in islam like in muslim countries where there's some aspects of sharia look statistically look at the rape rate look at the uh the the crime rates look at the murder rates there's the lowest in the world so society with practical mission of sharia your wife could walk around without being worried your your children complained the playground without drug dealers and all of that you wouldn't have to worry about uh you know people robbing you people ripping you off motorbikes and doing all the things that we see you wouldn't have any of those and i can tell you from having visited countries that may not even have some sharia but there are there's a strong muslim presence like a vast majority people walk around at 2 a.m i was in the ua 2 a.m people walk around else in saudi in pakistan children families no fear man uh there's places in america it gets dark you can't be out you're worried right same in europe yeah that was my experience as well in malaysia it was so family oriented absolutely beautiful yes i hadn't seen that anywhere else right i mean you go to places and you you have a son i mean think about it your son's going walking down streets in france you see fully naked women you see uh in germany you have daytime porn being shown i don't want your son being raised in a society like that right in the sharia look you have you have that piece of mind yeah now i found that beautiful i think that sexual imagery or whatever has nothing to do on the outside bikinis and bras advertisements everywhere it's absolutely repulsive yeah can't go to a park without worrying that something will happen it's terrible that's why i left for now that's basically it we went through all of the questions man we have been hit it for a long long time and you answered everything all right so i got a question for you yes arabic first or english first brother i'm going to tell you one thing as much as i appreciate it and it would be a great honor to do it with you yeah i i have a thing that i wouldn't like to do it online you know for me personally for me personally right now i'm in thailand next week next week i want to visit some masjid see myself i want to see it in real life because up until now everything has been happening online my journey has no problem by myself and that's why i want to see it in real life by myself and then make the right so let's make a deal all right uh visit mosques check out again you might find Muslims that are not knowledgeable or doing something wrong don't let that distract you but visit the community check it out thailand has a beautiful muslim community i've been there but when you're ready call me we'll do it on the phone no online we'll do it with me fair enough fair enough really i thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your questions and i think this is not only useful for myself but for the audience as well because you answered all of those islamic whole big comments confusions christian questions and whatnot i believe that this will be of great benefit to everybody i really appreciate your time i appreciate your honesty appreciate your questions your straight upness and i pray that allah guides me and you and puts us on the truth and i have a very good feeling that very soon uh you will be accepting what i think you already have in your heart the belief that there is one creator the belief that the prophet muhammad is the prophet of of allah uh there is a video i have about the splitting of the moon you should check it out if you haven't seen it already uh just you know i give the evidences and inshallah when you're ready for your islam after that give me a call uh i'll i'll email you my phone my personal phone number and inshallah we'll uh we'll we'll do your shahada inshallah don't protect procrastinate too much remember devil's going to make you want to just put things off but at the same time i want you to be comfortable with it hundred percent hundred percent i mean thank you so much again bro appreciate you for taking thank you have a great night or day we talk to you over there uh it's still better uh you