clip them be like fight them the way
they fight you right and I've read so
many books written by fundamental
Christians I've actually got about 15 of
them in my library and I've read quite a
few one because you can read them about
10 minutes and two because it's
important to know your enemy and I do
say enemy because these people are
really very adamantly against Islam one
of them is shahrooz book I don't know if
any of you know that man but he's a
Palestinian Christian who purposely
ridicules Islam and purposely makes fun
of the Quran and says terrible things
another one is called the Islamic
invasion which was written by so called
PhD in islamic studies
I don't know what PhD stands one that
case and one of the things in there just
to give an example what this guy says
unlike Christianity the Muslims believe
in a cruel God right nowhere in the
Quran is the love of God displayed right
and another one of the things he says
Allah is really the name of a moon
goddess right and that's why the muslims
worship the Kaaba which has a rock there
that they believe came from the moon hmm
there was once white right the color of
the moon now it's black so I've read a
lot of those books they make me very
angry and sometimes that anger manifests
a little bit but I do accept the the
general criticism I will say the Quran
does honor the people of the book a
hundred keytab particularly the
Christians but even the Jews in the
sense that that there are people of a
book a true book what what exists now
the Torah right and the injeel the that
the Quran talks about no longer exists
what exists now are books that have been
grossly altered hmm so the and so when I
was talking about what the if you read
the by one I have read about a lot of
people have not read the Bible in fact
somebody called me the other day and
said that he had written an article for
the newspaper in California and one of
the things that he'd said was you know
that Muslims do not force other people
to become Muslims there's no coercion
that it cannot have a Dean right there's
no coercion in the Dean and so this
person wrote back a rebuttal to the same
newspaper and said you can say that but
the true the matter is your book says
kill them wherever you find them right
and there is a verse in the Quran that
actually does say that class ii don't i
toldja to
but the Quran if you look the Quran says
when you need more saline right woe to
those who pray beware of those who pray
right woe to those who pray so if i
quote that to you now you would
automatically think if you've never
heard the horn so the quran obviously is
against praying well you have to finish
the ayah right and Latino home feel
slaton sat home and those that are
heedless in their prayers in other words
the hypocrites so the Quran has to be
taken in context if you take it out of
context then you lose the meaning and so
that's what this person did he took a
verse out of contextual context and or
thematic context and then it looks one
thing so I broke back for him a letter
and I quoted Psalm 138 which says smash
the babies of Iraq's heads up against
the blessed are those who smash the
babies of Iraq's heads up against the or
the baby's heads of Iraq up against the
rocks of Zion right so I said obviously
the Bible is calling us to smash Iraqi
babies heads up against rocks which
looks like scriptural justification for
Desert Storm so and then the other one
which is if you really want to read the
interesting section of the Bible's
Deuteronomy so I'm after accepting the
criticism Here I am ridiculing this book
so I apologize for that anyway my you
know Christians there are genuine
genuinely devout Christians good people
and I believe that in fact one of the
difficulties I had after becoming Muslim
was the fact that I have met Christians
I really believe we're totally genuine
in their love for God and and I just had
the difficulty with understanding that
and things like in nadina and the light
is done and actually been playing with
Josia solved the
difficulty for me in his book called the
javed Cathy which is the complete answer
and in that book he says that that there
are different types of love and he said
that there's love of God and he said but
this love is not enough and it's the
love that christians and jews and the
idol worshippers have for god and so
what he was indicating there was that
Christians Jews and idol worshippers can
actually love God which to me it kind of
it made sense for me in understanding
how I have met people from different
faiths who have a genuine love of God
but what he says is that what is needed
is love of what allah loves not simply
love of allah but love of what allah
loves and hate of what allah hates and
that is called chetia right that is the
the code whereby the human being acts
according to the way that allah has
commanded the person to act and so I I
would say that that I do apologize if I
offended anybody in here that is
Christian I
we're in a I really think in this
particularly in the West in a
post-christian era I think the religion
has it's very difficult for Christians
to actually be a moral authority or a
moral voice because of what's happened
to their religion and certainly what's
happened to the leaders of their
religion and those televangelists that i
ridiculed I think any devout true
Christian would ridicule them as well
because they're an object of ridicule
they're the worst type of people and can
because they exploit people's spiritual
needs and I'm certainly opposed to that
so I apologize and I and I accept that
that criticism any other question can
stop anyone who has a question to the
floor we have two microphones so if we
feel free to come to that microphone and
brothers we have a few more written
questions here I'll take a custom floor
person I don't want it howdy from soon
Eric ranches with African countries they
get to marry non-muslim girls and those
girls they get to convince them that you
are Muslims so that they get mad because
you know these Muslim use are good they
make your husband's there there were 28
and then after a little while my Muslim
brother many replenish that he is there
many a good wife and them up a few weeks
she's back with her family to church and
the poor man is sold so so much
devastated frustrated almost at the
point that he might get a raise or
something so we understand that it is
allowable in his lab to get
Muslims but if you would get to that
point don't we think that it's not good
to do we better get married to have good
Muslim girl and maintain a stronger
stomach rat family a Muslim family
instead of that what's written about um
shall I layman Inara seek refuge in
Allah from opinions yeah I think it's a
big it's a big social crisis a lot of
Muslims do come to these countries and
certainly youth are coming and there's a
what what the big new prisons in ski
calls I always wonder about you there's
a lot of Americans as here I go ridicule
I can really kill them because I'm an
American a lot of Americans say so
what's your name I'll disease I'm don't
what right but they can get the big new
bridges in ski and Arnold Schwarzenegger
movie given a like all those easy said
Abdul what look I'll just call you Abdul
and you're kind of like well actually
that means slave right so I'm not a
slave I'm slave up a disease which they
don't say to end up saying okay and so
that you get Abdul right working it
whatever they're working on or they
change it to Mike or something like that
make it easier just call i have and i
won't say that now i forgot to watch it
now to feel a little self-conscious um
just let me try to finish that question
the one of the big troubles is that the
foundation of marriage in islam is an
acceptance right about Lana's messenger
i mean that is what is going to maintain
a marriage if you don't have recourse to
some absolute source right or
fundamental values
that will shock that word erase that
word fundamental take it back I didn't
say that if you don't have recourse to
values right or some absolutes then
there will be troubles and Islam really
should be that that source so if you
marry a Christian or Jewish woman from
the people of the book which according
to the Quran is permissible although
there are some strong opinions that it's
it's not permissible and married
Christian that was abdullah even all
mother's opinion about the Alana's great
from medina and the son of Honor I
banana bob and in fact shahab allahi
allah Ramadi great Moroccan scholar of
this page actually wrote a book against
it saying and his proofs I think he does
it from there's a no soo Lee principle
called said that Mariah which is like
cutting off the pretext and what he
considered was if you were in a Muslim
society and the woman was Christian and
that should you die for instance then
the society would take it upon
themselves to make sure that your
children were raised as Muslims whereas
if you're in a Christian society you see
and you marry a Christian woman and you
happen to die which is certainly a
possibility then she could raise your
children christian right and you don't
have any way of preventing that and so
that was his opinion about that i
personally think some of the finest
muslims that I have met have been women
that have converted to Islam there's
some very strong some sisters that have
converted from Christianity and Judaism
other religions to Islam and I would
certainly make that a condition before I
married for that reason for the children
so that that's that's where I I stand
about that i'm a 19 year old student who
is very confused with whether i should
get a university education or fight for
jihad
okay can you elaborate on the disparity
of secular education religious education
how they can be merged yeah well gee but
that's a very long answer because you
have to go into really about jihad and
and what jihad is and what the
prerequisites for that one of the basic
principles of jihad though especially at
your age would be taking permission from
your family and the other thing about
you know a lot of where there are Muslim
crises that the problem is not actual
numbers of people but it's actually
basically get down to military hardware
and logistical needs whom the Bosnians
have vastly outnumber the Serbs but
they're completely unarmed you see so
the crisis there is not a number of
people and the same was true in
Afghanistan you know I was in for shower
during when the Russians were still
there and and that was one of the things
that they told me there's plenty of
people it's it's about weapons hardware
and Kashmir is the similar situation and
the Philippines you did three I mean
what we have is really not a shortage of
manpower but we have a shortage one we
don't have true leadership in other
words there's no governments that are
supporting the besieged Muslims wherever
they are and two there's just not
weapons right so
yeah yeah you have to just think about
that can you elaborate on the disparity
of secular education religious education
how they can be merged well I was saying
to some of you earlier that there's in
Islamic in really in an Islamic society
there would be no such thing as secular
education it doesn't exist because
there's no such thing as secular
knowledge there's only four of the ina
and Keith ayah any knowledge as either
classified as I mean a Keith aya mcrue
or muharram right and that's all there
is so for instance for buying would be
you have to learn how to pray everybody
else know how to pray if you go to Omaha
you have to know how to do amba a given
example at the Kaaba there's all these
people that go around Kaaba and they're
in a harem and they're going and they'll
go along touching the Kaaba as they make
the tawaf which breaks your show right
you're your circumambulation around the
cop it actually breaks it right if you
touch Scapa because you're inside the
Kaaba because there's this marble layer
that goes out is called shadow wine and
it's actually part of the Kaaba by the
original foundations of Ibraheem are
they sent em and and fell off going or
is around the Kaaba so if you go in
you're actually part of your bodies
inside the Kaaba so it invalidates your
shout I know some people could say well
you're picking hair is there but you're
not because that's the nature of Sharia
you have things that you do and things
that you don't do that's all Sharia is a
llama and noe its commands and
prohibitions and so you have to if you
go on umrah it becomes for buying upon
you to learn how to do a lot you can't
go there with a book and as you get
there to the Blackstone you start
looking now how do I do this it
shouldn't be to that point and you see
people like that during Hajj they're
trying to work out how to do their head
when they should have learned it back
home so that's a thought of buying all
right if you buy and sell you have to
learn the rules of buying and selling
you cannot do anything without knowing
how to do it and it's an important
element of our teaching is to learn what
allah has commanded you to do
omorrow used to go into the soup into
the marketplace and he would actually
test people right it's called them
nowaday they called quality assurance
okay but I mean the Muslims have that
concept in our Dean in the shed yeah
yeah he used to go in and he used to
pull the dates off the top to see if the
ones underneath or as good as the ones
on top and if they weren't he would tell
them that your lash you know that you're
cheating people right it's like you go
to the safeway Jeff savory in Canada no
okay then i saw in saudi arabia safest
way right and it had the big s it was
just like safeway right but it's called
safest away so for saudi guy went to
school in California and went back and
said I want to make something just like
America the safest way kid there was
price of legalistic problems calling it
safe way so but there they always have
the big strawberries on the top big
giant one then if you actually when you
buy it and pull off the top you'll all
the ones at the bottom or squashed and
small that's the same principle right
this it's like woman lost China for days
a minute in Russia nowadays I'm another
one that cheats us isn't from us so
that's what I'm going to used to do
right so you have to learn though saying
now the other knowledge Azhar called
fault of Sofia for all the key file like
medicine is a religious knowledge
because it's an obligation on some
people to learn it so it's not secular
it is by its nature religious because
Muslim don't have a concept of secular
see the Christians and i'll try to watch
myself here the Christians split the
religion at a point when they say that
jesus said and I don't believe it but
they say that Jesus said give unto
Caesar what is Caesar's and give unto
God what is God now I don't believe a
profit would say that because we don't
believe anything is for Caesar we say
analytically left everything is our
lives so how can you give to Caesar what
Caesar's and
give to God what is God's everything is
God's right so but that verse in the New
Testament is the verse that's used to
split church and state right now we
don't have that problem because one we
don't have a church there's no church
and two we don't really have a state
right so it's it's a it's a Christian
problem church and state Muslims have
what's called a dola which is actually a
later you know it's a later invention of
the folk ahah to call dola in the
hemisphere like diplomatic rules the
DOTA is opposite of state state comes
from a Latin words which means status
right which is staying the same we get
static from it like static the status
quo the way things are dhola actually
means the thing that's constantly
changing so it's really the opposite of
a state one because what states do is
they hoard well right what the Islamic
government does is it gives wealth out
there's no hoarding in fact zakat has to
be redistributed immediately it has to
go back into the community and by
Islamic law it's supposed to be gathered
in the community and redistributed back
into the very same community there's no
centralization of power in Islamic law
there's no Washington DC right that is a
totally what there is is there is a
Haditha which is a really a it's a
represent represent ation of the
prophetic hub whereby everything
revolves around it you see that's what
it is he is the ha'la'tha of who of the
messenger of allah that's what the
Haditha is if he obeys him we obey him
if he disobeys him we don't disobey you
see so our hearing and obeying is based
on his hearing an old bang right and so
if he's not hearing and he's not obeying
then we don't listen to him and we
obey Him and that's from Omar Abdullah
know when he took out he give khutbah a
talk to some people and he said about
the Alana what would you do if Omar
started going crooked and one of the
Sahaba pulled his sword out and said I'd
straighten you with this and so all
Marcel had found a leather still people
in this oma that would straighten all
out if he went crooked so he was just
checking that's what they call a checks
and balance system but in Washington you
have Congress and the president that's a
checks and balance you have to have that
system so Alma was giving us the concept
of checks and balances you see to remind
us future generations if he starts going
astray we have to straighten them out
right now what happens when everybody
goes crooked that's the problem so
I have a reputation of giving very long
answers all right go ahead aleykum Selam
thank you brother for coverage of this
artifact factors that were among led to
be the climate innocent enough it's not
the only know it was very complicated my
boyfriend was that when you talked about
Dawa and you divide it up in Mecca and
Medina and you probably make some
comparisons between what happened then
and what could probably be our situation
now love parent Allah says in the Quran
what I definitely thought to do that to
a man I had one and seven prophet
Solomon had given you take whatever
forbidden forbidden you abstain mm-hmm
that's with everything and it moves the
method the 30 cause with which we call
but it's known and down it just self or
scheme that you've isolated that what
that was is now it's just to look at at
yourself and lift yourself you're
listening personality and look at other
personality like it's individualistic
it's more a seven-legged have more links
to the societal level because if used
the sum of individual doesn't make his
authority and if we never have a hundred
percent Muslim individuals it doesn't
necessarily they're not the ivory seed
and the seed of cool addition from
various sites in Mecca his messengers
two leaders of the greatest nations and
karate and he ruffled and he asked him
to get into Islam and he also went there
on the childhood on mecka asking to get
and to give him the rule to give him to
rule by Allah rules and Volusia some of
them gave them give him conditional rule
he chanted so he was after something the
idea that there isn't much that he
outlined for us to manage the nuclear it
in Syria and handle and we have many
Muslim tables and others I think are
better knowledgeable about the serum can
see things for Candide and see it more
and maybe if you can outline much for
other because it felt like its own
individual no no I just do when I talk I
try to talk to the audience I'm speaking
to people have there's called murata to
take leave right and people have
different tech leaf which is your your
responsibility there's different
responsibilities from the vast majority
of people they are not responsible for
for instance the rulers the people that
are to rectify the rulers are the ulema
right these are the people that have to
rectify the rulers that's why the Provos
a licen him said that the greatest jihad
parlin would you hadn't kitten with a
hop Imam soltan in jail the biggest
jihad is actually doua is a word it's
not fighting or anything the biggest
jihad is speaking the truth in front of
an unjust ruler the people that speak
the truth all the people that have what
are called a judge and bara hien they're
the people of proofs and of sound
arguments and those are the ulema you
see and that's why all of the early
community said that the facade of dunya
right the the destruction of the world
is with the destruction of the Roma and
the Umara because the owner man don't
wanna have to have this relationship one
has to be rectifying the other you see
and if they don't then you get
disintegration which is what's happened
in our societies now we most of the
Ummah have aligned themselves with
unjust rulers and so they have lost
their status within the Muslim societies
people really don't listen to them
because they see them sitting next to
Pharaoh and if you're sitting next to
Pharaoh you're in bad company right so
my point is is that I you know I have
been Muslim now almost 18 years and I've
heard a lot since the time I became
Muslim until now and what I recognize is
it that there's a lot of talk and talk
is very cheap and you can sit around in
cafes and discuss about the way things
should be but if people aren't changing
some very fundamental things which is
not to ignore other aspects you see but
the rectification of societies takes
place from those people that are lost
behind without has given them the
intellectual gifts and the spiritual
gifts for that transformation the vast
majority people don't have those the
tools right at the web
the tools of that thumb change which is
to actually change not just themselves
but to change the society people you
know what are called the alarm which I
consider myself from them are the the
simple people right that don't have the
deep knowledge that's necessary to
present blueprints and present we have
Muslims working very hard not just in
the Muslim world but outside the Muslim
world for change at the highest levels
DC and they have that tech leave and
they exist and there's movements that
have been going on for a long time to
bring about those change do you see what
I mean did you follow that yeah so are
you know Muslims should support those
that are working towards that change I
personally the now the Islam that I
studied was I studied very classical
scholars mostly from Mauritania and my
understanding of Islam is that Islam is
not a revolutionary type of teaching
because olerude an assault but what's
called her una sopa in the rules of silk
like going out and actually opposing the
government and things like that
violently there have to be very specific
conditions present for that to take
place and those are details that we
could go into here so Islam is a total
picture and I'm not trying to say that
it's one isolated aspect what I'm saying
is that is the beginning point for us as
individuals and if we have not begun
there then there's no point in trying to
get somewhere else you see you have to
start you know everything starts with
steps you know a child first learns to
crawl and then it learns to walk and
then it learns to run and that's the
nature of growth it's progressive the
there's this Arabic saying that says
bound which evolves from
so the food of the Giants is poison for
the little ones right the food of adults
is poisonous for babies you can't feed
babies meet you see ya rabi alone
where's Mossad that's all we want Musab
yeah that's what we want Mossad given on
there someday cuz I'm then you know
nobody's I wouldn't be here if I lost
hope I'd be at home with my family
sleeping Katya lon yeah but who prepared
mosa mosa didn't come out of a vacuum
yeah Mosab had very serious training
like the element you see they talk about
degrees of Dawa the first degree is
called tube leave right which is
actually where individuals who have
taken it actually go out and spread the
message the second degree is called to
Queen right which is where you the
people that accept the message then are
molded into actual real characteristics
of that message and then the final stage
is Tim keen which is when a lot you make
in a home fedora and that's a promise in
the Quran but there's what's called in
the Quran or Joomla Hallia in the Arabic
language which is a sentence of state in
other words if the condition exists then
that thing is this and in the eyes of
some teen that Allah says well I or what
are you making under comforter be right
he will establish you in the earth yeah
we don't Allah life utica vishay they
worship Allah and they do not associate
anything with him that is the gym
Natalia that allow promises if that
exists
the other thing is this if you look at
the Quran a lot of Hanoi data says yeah
you had latina a taco la vaca luolan
sadita o you who believe have taqwa have
conscious awareness of Allah right and
say truthful things be upright in your
speech in other words have the awareness
of Allah and taqwa is behavioral it's
not at akkad taqwa is not the way you
think is the way you act in other words
behave like a Muslim and speak like a
Muslim now look at the what's called the
the result of that right you slacker
coma a medical he rectifies your state
you slacker coma American while you have
a filler comes a new back home and he
will forgive all of your wrong actions
so in other words your worldly affairs
are rectified and your other worldly
affairs are rectified and then Allah
tells us in the autumn anotado Samoa to
inaudible Javad that he has given this
amana and the amana here the trust that
allah put forward to the heavens the
earth and the mountains and that they
refused it and man took it on is the
take a leave a Sharia it is the
responsibility of implementing this
teaching in our lives and in ourselves
and if we do that if you will get up at
night and call on Allah and do these
saying that is primary that's all I'm
saying if you're not doing that don't
expect anything else to happen which is
not negating the other things Ilan
sitting upon what I do mr. Parkman
kawawa memory behind I mean all these
things exist prepare with power and
strength and horses and which could be
read what you know the means the
necessary mean let's see what somebody
told me once that you see if we were
military had military strength in Bosnia
this would have never happened that is a
fallacious argument right in logic that
is a fallacious argument because if
allah wants a lot could have got the
serves in the crates killing each other
and then after they all killed everybody
they're just be muslims there they have
their country and everything I mean it's
not based on material you can't
interpret things materialistically you
see our Deen is based on the
the second principle in the Dean is the
Amanda light and latina y una vida huh
they believe in allah subhan allah tala
and in the right they believe in the
unseen so we there's other elements
acting and happening in creation that we
don't see that we're not consciously
aware of but that are taking place so
rectification that's all I'm saying is
rectification begins first with the self
if that's not taking place then all of
the other things that extend from that
are of no benefit you see and if Allah
does not give a success then we have to
go back and look at why and the Muslims
have not had success we have not had
success in terms of Tim keen there's
been success hamdillah in people
returning to the Dean and these things
and it's happening and it's happening in
the time that Allah wills it to happen
the other thing that one of the North
Africa shakhnazarov said is that one of
the great tribulations of our time he
said this in the ninth century as the
people he said yes ty Dillon and foot
doona sure will be he that they tried to
hurry the victory or the opening without
having the condition and each one of the
stations right of the tablet to Queen
and the term keen they have condition
for instance in Afghanistan should open
muscle were there but shuru Potemkin
were not there you see the conditions of
victory were there but the conditions
for establishment were not there and
they are you can look at the our
scholars have enunciated them very
clearly from the Quran you see one of
the most beautiful books and I recommend
that you read it is a job of Kathy by in
Oakland Josia because he talks about
what is wrong with the society and his
basic and fundamental analysis is is it
is the wrong actions of the individuals
that compose that society and until that
is rectified until there are not kebaya
in our societies that everything is
going to remain the same you see it
stays the same because this is the
Sunnah of this is the way of the divine
way that has no
change you see Allah says that inquire
if you read the Quran with to elmwood
with with reflection and depth it
becomes very clear why societies are
destroyed and how they're rectified you
see and and we should never forget that
Islam is not a ideology Islam is not an
ideology it's not a political ideology
like communism or capitalism or
something like that Islam is a deep
transformative spiritual power that
transforms the individual and transforms
the society it has political aspect it
has social aspects as all these aspects
but that is its fundamental power you
see the power of Islam is in the power
of personal transformation that is the
power of the Sun and personal
transformation leads to social
transformation that is the Sunnah of
Allah you cannot create social
transformation without personal
transformation that is not the Sunnah of
Allah and you can find that in the Quran
and in the sunnah of the prophet elias a
time you see you should do it I mean
your first victory every day is foggia
you see but even higher than that is
p.m. and Leia but the victory over shat
on the first victory that begins every
day is fuzzy you see if you did not win
that battle you lost the first battle of
the day one down and several to go
that's what chef on says we got him
there so everything else could be a
little easier but if you got up for
fudger running my uncle ship on his nose
is in the dust you see and then he's a
little worried he got up for fudger I'm
gonna have difficulty today and that's
the way it goes so there's a personal
jihad that has to take place if that's
not taking place forget about the big
battles I mean look at there's a great
story when the the Muslims were in Egypt
and they surrounded a city there and
they were fighting and they weren't
getting any victory and so the Emir sent
out to find out were they praying the
prayers all the time were they doing
everything and they said the
the the soldier came back and told him
everything's doing they're getting up
doing night for his everything the only
thing they're not doing cleaning their
teeth before the prayers because there's
no see lack right there's no sticks so
he said go and get find some tree
branches and bring them back and so they
made this so all the Muslim soldiers
start cleaning their teeth and these
Egyptians found from the fort right and
they said the Muslim sharpening their
teeth they're getting ready to eat us
right and it created such fear in these
people they just surrendered you know
that question there's Lama courses
offered a youth key and these are set
out to destroy the youth at school take
the cordless it's worth for Muslim
students who don't know much about the
religion to begin with yeah but on these
courses here yeah it's really dangerous
to take a university course on Islam
because because most of the people
teaching them are either wittingly or
unwittingly undermining Islam I mean
that's the truth you can't learn your
Dean from your enemy all right I mean
you can't it's stupid it's like it's
like going to a somebody that would love
to see you die for medical treatment
right
yeah and we the result of it is Salman
Rushdie that's what you get that's a
result of getting a degree in Islamic
history from Cambridge because that's
what he did and I think you might have
even generally wanted to find out about
his religion at one point in his life a
lot because he said that I've read some
interviews with him and he went through
a period where he wanted to rediscover
Islam so he decided to take courses at
Cambridge and the rest is history right
because all that crap that he came up
with this from medieval orientalist that
made it all up I mean thomas carlyle who
even though Muslims constantly quote him
in these books like heroes and hero
worship Thomas Carla and they always
take him out of context because he says
terrible things about the prophets a
licen but then he also said some really
nice things so they put all the nice
things that he says right and they don't
mention all that other stuff but one
thing he some scholar says is one of the
greatest intellectual crimes is the
crime of the Orientalist against Islam
because they made up all this stuff
about the prophets Eliza time and and
this is what this guy read so that's
unfortunate these people most of them
they say we're objective right the
university is an objective system right
well the fact that the vast majority of
professors in islamic studies happen to
be from a certain area of the world that
doesn't really like muslims very much is
kind of unusual objectivity right and
they definitely have political agendas a
lot of times in the classes that they
teach and and also a lot of their
arguments if you're not well grounded in
your Dean a lot of the arguments are
very well convincing you see if you
haven't really studied Islam and depth
they can do objectively right it's
called with arabs call putting the
poison in the honey right you see you
say what a wonderful religion islam is
and oh it created this great culture and
data data and by the way right and then
they'll bring in the poison
see and they do it very subtly so you
don't realize you it's like giving the
person a little bit the way the European
women used to kill their husbands as
they put a little bit of hair every day
in the food right and then they get
these balls of hair and the stomach and
eventually die right so it's you give
him a little bit at a time right and
then by the end of the course the person
is totally confused the way to change
that the first thing is that i'll give
you a good example in California there
was a young not so young but I'm
Pakistani man whose daughter went to
seventh grade and she brought home this
book that had a chapter on Islam and it
was all the problems of Bedouin camel
trader and blah blah all this rubbish
right fulani asunder and he got so angry
he started this letter writing campaign
and got all of these people to write
letters now though I'm sure there were
many Muslims that just read it and said
that's terrible you know and and then ya
know none of that's true but they don't
do anything about it see most Muslims if
there's fitna they become great letter
writers I've noticed that like in
communities whenever there's like
trouble mum you get these fuel that
become the biggest activist and where
the calling of the phone did you know it
so and so did involve habla and it just
gets them going right but things about
Dean and about your slaw how about
rectification and changing everybody's
an armchair Muslim right that's terrible
that's horrific and we should change
that but they don't get up out of the
armchair well this man did and because
of that because of his efforts the
California textbook now in seventh grade
has an excellent chapter on Islam I mean
he went to the very tops of the
educational board in California had
Muslim riders come in and they showed
them how it was all incorrect
information and they changed it you see
and that's what that person did people
have to monitor these classes they have
to monitor what's going on people that
know what they're talking about how to
be in there and put pressure you can put
pressure on these people and they should
not be allowed there's some woman
teaching islamic studies in california
was using
salman rushdie's book as the textbook
right and that's all based on the fact
that there are not Muslims with enough
via what's like their jealousy for this
Dean or their love of this Dean that
makes them go out and do things right so
that's that is a jihad it's also a dowel
and dalla is nothing other than jihad
there's no such thing as baba Baba Dawa
in books a fifth there's no chapter
called the chapter of dower there's a
chapter called Babel jihad and the first
section on it is Dawa so that's what
that's a jihad to go out and change what
these people are doing because there's a
lot of people out there very often I
mean the idea or so out of it is how
unbelievable you go all over California
in all the bookstores and and the book
may strong protections kill the doctor
to your book represent Islam and they're
really well publish and all where's that
money coming from the same with a behind
movement carry all funded and the and so
there's fun in there are Muslim don't
have enough people right how do i would
love with their religion to pull out
from their pocket and start doing
something about losing change here we
certainly have the number and we have
the intellectual capacity but there
needs to be people to get out actually
do things and change that and it can
happen so you know that's a starting
place making sure textbooks correctly
reflects the Islamic teaching and
checkbook like maxi
unacceptable anything I I mean I've seen
so many comparative religion book
they'll have the chapter on Buddhism
written by a Buddhist scholar I have the
chapter on Protestant written by
Protestants car and Catholicism I then
they come to the Islamic section is
written by you know some Christian or
Jewish writer that has a PhD in islamic
studies right that's what is objectivity
we're being objective if I'm Muslim
wrote it right it wouldn't be objective
would it right well why do you let the
Buddhist right about the Buddhism well
because it's Buddhism ok so anyway oh
the green one which one many Muslim
youth lead a double identity one at home
and another outside home which does not
confirm to Islamic teachings like the
that's the Clark Kent syndrome in inside
the home there mild-mannered Abdullah
and outside the home they're super facet
right so which does not conform to
Islamic teachings how would you address
this problem to bring the youth back to
Islam well okay
yeah I don't find it anyway oh yeah this
song cursor at U of T is set out to just
know this one's a different one oh yeah
that's right sorry I'm still now I'm
about 25,000 feet coming down okay yeah
that's what I owe Islam you said it's on
metaphorically is a house of God well
it's called battle Islam and that's the
traditional and battle salaam in the
Quran Allah calls yet a dollar cinema
lies the Dawa is to the house of peace
so it's it's not it's a Quranic term and
with certain mannerism is one is not
going to observe them then they should
get out is that not being extreme what
about people going through different
degrees of practicing okay I accept that
as well as a criticism criticisms are
always nice when they're put in this
nice way right I mean when it says you
stupid idiot what are you telling people
you're a fundamentalist fanatic I mean
that puts you off but when it's done in
this kind of nice polite way is that not
being extreme you just kind of naturally
tend to accept things like that which is
nice because that's the way criticism
should be nice so I accept that but I am
extreme so what's you got a problem with
that
um you know where I got that from actual
I go to the prison's right not as a
prisoner but as of like to teach people
about Islam right and to learn actually
because I do learn a lot there um and
and one of the things is Muslim prisoner
told me right because these guys most of
them have spent about ten years pumping
weights and their arms are kind of
bigger than both my thighs put together
and there's this picture of me with
these five guys around maybe they're all
like six foot five and I'm kind of in
the middle of this thing looking like a
worm or something so one of the things
they told me is that the reputation of
the Muslims is so good at solid ad
prison that when they have shutdowns and
things like that they actually exempt
Muslims from bi start becoming Muslims
to get the perks right but they be
dealing drugs on set yo Salaam alaikum
bro hugs and then they'd be deal right
they'd be selling the drugs right so
they were starting to get a bad
reputation from these guys so what they
told me they did this really great guy
was about six foot five and had arms as
big as my two thighs said that so I said
what would you do with them he said well
we just took him aside and let him know
that the house has rules and if you
don't want to abide by the rules then
get out of the house and that's what
they did right so they kind of
maintained at night and I like the idea
but it is a little extreme so I I do
believe that and I really mean this in
all sincerity particularly in this
country but really all over the Muslim
world we've had incidents really of
young Muslims like actually throwing
acid on women's legs in certain areas of
the world considering that like I'm
gonna bid my loaf and Nana moon car
right like enjoy I mean eyes
bend and this things have gotten totally
out of hand you know and I don't that is
not the methodology of the Prophet first
of all somebody said that you we Islam
does not allow for vigilantism there is
no visual on tourism in Islam you cannot
take the law into your own hand that is
why you cannot go and kill Salman
Rushdie you cannot a Muslim cannot go
out and shoot Salman Rushdie because we
have a system and the alarm it's not
folder if all of a sudden we just say
everybody take the law into your hand
we'll have people out there blowing
people's brains out you know because for
whatever reasons I mean I had somebody
tell me one I guess he learned hanafi
filk and I prayed without a hat on and
show me next time you come in this month
did you pray I'm gonna tear you up or do
this or that and I was like okay I'll
wear a hat next time right last time I
went to that mosque right so I I really
believe people are at different
evolutionary levels Muslim women that
are wearing hijab today five years ago
were not or two years ago or two days
ago so there is an evolution and we have
to be aware of that as well as Muslims
that we're praying some Muslims only
pray jumma last year and this year
they're praying all five prayers some
people are praying all their prayers at
the end of the day when they get home
from work you know so people are at
different stages in their spiritual
development and that is something that
we always have to be aware of and
concerned about right I mean there's the
almost method of the alarm which is off
with their heads and the Prophet SAW
lyceum tempered that down you can see
the transition of omagh you know I'll go
bonkers method that'll be lana was to
kind of be gentle and forgiving for
certain things and the prophets of night
was the most of people that made ease
for people i mean if you look at the man
who came and he said to the prophet
Elijah I'm had actor heck do you know
I've destroyed myself and he said what
happened he said I was with my wife
during the day in Ramadan so the
prophets also lies him said you have to
make Cafaro right to expiate
and he said what do i do and then he
said well you have to feed people right
and he said I don't have anything to
feed people with so the Prophet had
somebody go get dates from the base of
the mile and he gave the mandates and he
said feed the people at these date said
who do I feed he said the poor people he
said there's nobody poor than my family
he said then feeds your family and he
laughed and the point was is that the
man had made toba he was genuine in his
toba and so the prophet shall I Sam made
it easy for him because the point is not
to be harsh the point is to bring people
back to Allah if you see them coming
back to a lot don't push them out and
the Prophet didn't say to him what a
wretched man you are you did that get
out of here get out of my face that's
not the way of the prophet Elijah and a
lot of people unfortunately like that so
i agree with you i was just using an
extreme example because it upsets me you
know when I became Muslim the first
thing i did I read all these books right
about the Sahaba and all model on all
these things and then I went to I won't
name the country because it's not really
fair and I saw all these Muslims and I
was like I mean who are these people you
know what do they have to do with Islam
and with this teaching and to me they
you know one of the doors in the Quran
is or a banner that said you're under 15
attendant latina Cafaro message I'm
gonna fit in attended in a capital o our
Lord don't make us a fitna right for
those who disbelieve right and and that
means don't make us like in Bosnia and
Herzegovina now because those people
that are fighting them they're in big
trouble I mean they are they're in big
trouble what they're doing to those
people is a terrible thing but it also
has that you know don't let us be an
excuse for people not to become Muslim
which is what the Muslims are now I mean
people if you call people is on they say
Islam you mean like they have in the
Middle East right or in I was in
Pakistan or I was in Morocco or I was in
somewhere you know
so that's that just it's upsetting to
see that the Muslims that claim to be
Muslims and then they behave the way
they do and I do it sometimes too so
what you know someone somebody once said
that like making fun of people's bad
habit nice hot all women comet ison
yakumo gentlemen when Allah says be shoe
had that what oh and I'm come you
know bear witness even if it's against
yourselves right so it's a it's I mean
Muslims have to have in soft they have
to have justice and they have to have
that when they deal with people and when
they do it themselves and so you know
there's one man once said that when I
looked at people I cried out to God for
justice then when I looked at myself I
just cried out for mercy right so it's
easy to condemn everybody outside
yourself there's a beautiful hadith of
the prophet Elijah and he said manna
father had a Canasta home the one that
says the people are destroyed he's the
most destroyed of them because it's
kibriya it's like a arrogance you look
at other people and you say they're all
worthless good for nothing except me of
course and that's a real bad state to be
and there's a lot of Muslims fall into
that state oh go ahead miss me neither
but I did come sit on is this a trick
question
ok
all right go ahead I'm ready just so you
know if you will be bad to hell and so
does everybody don't know will be good
to have