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doctor please excuse all my errors thank
you very
much
in the name of God the most beneficent
the most merciful I welcome and greet
all of you with the Islamic greeting
of that means may God's peace mercy and
blessings be upon each single one of you
when we meet each other that's how we
Muslims greet each other with the
greeting of
peace now some of you when I was putting
my slides up they saw this light and
they were thinking how come Al Capone's
picture is there what does he have to do
with today's
presentation this is the reason for it
when I was in India growing up I used to
watch a lot of Hollywood movies about
fighting and killing and
shooting and when I was in India that's
all I thought Americans are they all
carry guns they shoot each other and
violence that's all I
thought I did not knew better but when I
moved over here I was very cautious as I
was going from Street to Street
traveling and going by the buses I used
to look behind and see is somebody like
that following me
right so that's an important lesson for
me that after I interacted with my
fellow Americans I found out they are
just like anyone else they're humans
they have the same aspirations they have
the same needs and they have the same
desires so the myth which I had when I
was in India was erased by the facts
when I got in touch and no knew our
American citizens over here so I really
applaud yourself and all of you for
coming over here and getting to know
what Islam is from the Muslims not from
the media not from the islamophobes and
definitely not from Mr Donald Trump
right thank
you as I was introduced I have three
children the middle one is not mine by
the way there all
right that F like in Six Flags Great
America 11y old 8y old and threey old so
the threey old he's missing he's like
running around
somewhere so it's very important that
when we get to know each other it helps
us to work with each other and by
working with each other we could
establish societies that is going to
benefit each other so it is my tradition
that before I start any presentation I
want to uh check the I IQ of my audience
the Islamic IQ are you guys ready for it
all right I have five questions yes no
come on these are easy
questions okay so this is a very first
question there are 25 prophets who are
mentioned by name in the
Quran who do you think is mentioned by
name the
most can you like raise your hand so I
would know yes ma'am Abraham Abraham
peace be upon him he's mentioned
actually the second most number of times
69 times but there is someone else who
mentioned more than Abraham yes ma'am
mamad Muhammad peace be upon him he's
mentioned almost the least in the Quran
by
name genius okay so now we are down to
four all right you have
Ishmael now we're down to three yes
ma'am Jesus Jesus he's mentioned 25
times now we're down to two yeah have
50/50 now Moses you got it give her a
big hand she got it all right he's
mentioned 136 times Jesus 25 times
Abraham 69 times Muhammad peace be upon
him it's mentioned by name only four
times yeah a fifth time by the name
Ahmed by the name Muhammad only four
times peace be upon him so the reason I
usually have this slide is to show to
our fellow Americans usually from the
Jewish and the Christian background that
Quran Islam Muslims we love we admire we
honor we respect all the prophets of
God to such an extent that two of my
boys the older one his name as ibraim
Abraham my youngest one is named Yousef
which is Joseph right who is is the only
lady mentioned by name in the Quran by
show of
hands all of you are cautious now right
come on yes sir say Mary Mary give me
give me big hand he got it all right
wonderful Mary she's mentioned 32 times
in the Quran as I did my calculation
she's mentioned 18 times in the New
Testament all
right so it looks like we respect Mary
more chapter number three verse number
42 of the Quran it says speaking about
Mary Quran says so God sent an angel to
Mary and the angel is saying that oh
Mary God has chosen you God has purified
you and God has chosen you above all the
women about the wives of Muhammad peace
be upon him about all the believing
women Mary a Jewish lady apparently she
is honored in the Quran as the most
chosen Lady of all the ladies by God by
Islam by the Quran so that shows the
respect the honor the admiration that
Muslims give to the wonderful son Jesus
peace be upon him and to the mother Mary
peace be upon her all right let's go to
the next one here now this one is an
easy one right who do you think Muslims
worship all right give all of you a big
and you got it all right
wonderful I asked the same question to a
colleague of mine in the hospital you
know Joe who do you think Muslims
worship and lo and behold of all the
answers the one that he chose was number
c
Buddha I said come on dude man you
should know better
right now there is a slight
misconception that Muslims we worship
Muhammad peace be upon him we don't we
consider Muhammad peace be upon him as a
man as Flesh and Blood like you and me
but a mighty Prophet we don't worship
him we don't pray to him he's not the
mediator we only worship to the
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Creator appreciate very much that you've
taken time from your private life and
your family to educate us it is so
needed more now than ever did a
phenomenal job and you have piqued my
curiosity not curiosity interest and
you're coming to the mosque if invite
you yes
wonderful and and of course I would like
to come to the mosque I am Jewish and I
have been to many
different uh houses of worship um it's
been a pleasure to be to attend your
presentation today and and uh this is
the first time that I have been in a
mosque and it's I found it in a a
ceremony in a mosque I should say and I
found it to be very enlightening the
program was well done uh the gentleman
that did the program was very well
prepared and I truly uh feel that I was
informed and learned a great deal about
uh Islam that I haven't known that I
didn't know in the past cuz I think we
need a I don't mean we as Americans the
world needs to help clear this up cuz
we're in such a hated place where
there's such deep deep anger that all
they want to do is with machine guns
kill each other W the rate of this is
just I mean I'm 95 years old I'm not
worried for myself but I'm worried for
my grandchildren and great-grandchildren
I'm glad that you came I got more
knowledge out of it than I had before so
I appreciated it so thank you very
much