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alhamdulillah you're watching lifting
the fog removing the misconceptions
misunderstandings and the
misrepresentations about Islam and what
it teaches I'm your host youfest this
and for the next few minutes I'd like to
talk about a very important subject
that's falling under harsh attacks by
the enemies of Islam and present what we
consider to be the proper rebuttal
toward
that what we have found in recent
Publications on the television on emails
and internet websites is something
that's rather
alarming these are statements
which have been distorted misrepresented
in some cases even outright lies saying
things about the Holy
Quran some of them deal with the
religious aspects others deal with acts
of
violence and some deal with something
that's um even Beyond something that I
want to discuss here tonight just to
touch the
subject and let us examine one
particular email that we received asking
about the
Quran what I heard from this email was
how could you leave the religion of
Christianity where the Bible only
preaches peace and love for a religion
where the Quran is preaching hatred and
violence these are
statements inside of these questions
that are just absolutely not true
but how do we respond and we've talked
about it in this series throughout
lifting the fog how we need to respond
to these type of
allegations first and foremost is to let
the people know that we are open to
discuss these things we want to discuss
it with them we hope to remove this fog
so we should say to them thank you for
asking me about my
religion and let them know that
something in Islam that by the way a lot
of people don't consider today is that
we have to tell the truth it's not an
option for us it's a part of our belief
it's a part of our religion that we as
Muslims have to speak the truth Allah
said in the
Quran all you who
believe have piety for Allah
righteousness and always speak the
truth for us as Muslims is very serious
we're not going to lie about anything
but especially we're not going to lie
about Islam nor are we going to lie
about the book of Allah no no muslim in
his right mind is going to do something
like
this the next thing is we have the proof
everything is authenticated and
preserved in Islam what do you want to
check out we have
it and then finally is to take the
question and straighten it out and
present it in a way that you can answer
it because you can't answer questions
that can
false
statements I want to tell you about
something when I first came into Islam
this subject about the proof and the
truth even though I was preaching
Christianity it never occurred to me to
make a big deal about the
truth as far as the proof is concerned I
recall that when I came into Islam the
gentleman who was talking to me about
Islam I was trying to convert him to
Christianity because I was sure that you
know I had the best uh way of life the
Christian way Etc and I was calling him
to come to be a Christian and at one
point I remember he was telling me
something about that he would accept
that he would go to My Religion if my
religion is better than his now I
thought about that I said well that
ought to be pretty good in Christianity
you don't have to pray five times a day
you don't have to fast Ramadan and stay
without food and drink you don't have to
make a a pilgrimage or a Hajj you don't
have to pay this zaka thing
the only thing you got to do is just
believe somebody else died for all your
sins that's pretty easy
deal so I considered that that's going
to be a good sales pitch and he'll just
come right on over but then he said an
amazing thing he said but you'll need
proof I said
proof by the way my doctorate happens to
be in the subject of Theology and I
happen to know in religion that it's not
about proof it's about faith it's about
what you believe but he said in Islam we
have
both we have the faith but we also have
the
proof there's a consideration what is
the proof of Islam the proof of Islam is
the Quran itself so if somebody wants to
come and attack the Quran and say
something against the Quran this is an
amazing subject and very easy to dispel
any false Notions they have we have
websites on the internet that deal with
this sub
I hope you'll take time to visit our
websites and look because in these
websites we've presented things that
have been said about the Quran by
non-muslims even scientists even
atheists who when they learned the
Arabic language and read what the Quran
was saying testified in public we have
the videos of these people famous
scientists
saying without any reservation that this
this must be from God or Allah law
because there's no way 14400 years ago
people could have made such statements
with such accuracy
describing everything from embryology to
astronomy everything from the smallest
minute detail of the conception and
development of the embryo with inside
the womb of the mother to hand the
various constellations are turning how
the universe itself was all coming out
of a single matter how it was split and
even how all life comes out of water all
of these things and more mentioned in
Quran and this is a scientific Miracle
but there's
more Quran is just not a book of science
it deals with something very special it
talks to us about the nature of the
human
being from the very first statement
where the Quran begins to tell us about
Allah to the very last statement where
it tells us about us from
the to the very end to menal genti one
US everything in between deals with the
subject of the human nature and the
subject of his creator and then what's
the relationship between the two and by
the way Islam as we've said in many
programs is about the relationship
between us and our
creator the relationship in
Islam between us and Allah is one of
surrender submission
obedience sincerity and
peace and by the way those words in
English are the word in Arabic Islam
that's exactly what it means and whoever
does Islam we don't say islamer by the
way whoever does Islam is a what a
Muslim Mo
Islam the Quran is very clear showing a
human human being how to deal with every
type of situation will come up in his
life from the time we are conceived in
the
womb until we're born until we're raised
up until we die until we're resurrected
on the day of judgment and put into our
respective places in the paradise or in
the Hellfire all of it is laid out for
us very clear in the
Quran yes it does have scientific ific
Miracles that have been expounded upon
by people much greater than me in
science but there's something else it's
a work of literature that's
unparalleled there is none that compares
to this great
work the structure of the grammar in the
Arabic is unmatched look at the
challenge that comes in the Quran listen
to this Allah says if you're in doubt
about it bring a book like it
1,400 years nobody was able to do
that in another verse Allah gives
another challenge listen to this
one bring 10 bring 10 suras like
it and by the way the last 10 SAS or
chapters of the Quran are pretty easy to
memorize even a non-arab speaker can
memorize the last 10 suras of the Quran
or chapters of the Quran maybe six or
eight weeks yet nobody's been able to
bring something like
that and in yet another verse of the
Quran you know what Allah
said bring one Sor like it even one and
again that nobody's been able to do
that there are those who have tried to
challenge the Quran by coming up with
these little things here and there
little poetry here and there but anybody
who knows the Arabic language even if
they're an Arab that's not Muslim there
are Arab Christians Arab Jews Jews Arab
atheists yes but if they know the Arabic
language if they know the grammar and
the structure they're going to say no no
no this this doesn't compare they have
to admit that the grammar is unmatched
you can't come up with something like it
but again it doesn't stop there I'm
going to share you with you something
else that amazed me when I look to the
Quran the Quran was revealed 1,400 years
ago to a man who was known known by his
community as a nickname as a title as
the truthful
AIC Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
was known to all of the people in the
community he's never going to tell a
lie so how could a man and he was about
40 years old at that time peace be upon
him how could he come up with something
like this and just fabricate the whole
thing and but yet he's known to all
these people as being an honest person
how oh I forgot to mention something he
also did not know how to read nor did he
know how to write this is well
established and well known that even
when he signed documents he didn't sign
them by pen like this he had what's
called a katam or a signant ring that he
used that had his name on it and he
would press it into the wax that's how
he signed documents so how did he write
it and if you said well he said it and
these people wrote it down they did
that's true
what he said they wrote down but all of
them wrote exactly the same thing so it
means he really said it and where did he
get it from and how did he predict
things that came true because the
predictions the Prophecies of the Quran
are unbelievable what Allah said has
happened and a lot of it has happened
very recently amazing
statements but I'm not done there either
listen to this another amazing thing
about the Quran is is the recitation
itself because Quran doesn't mean book
some of our other programs we discuss
this in more detail Quran actually means
that which is being
recited and when somebody is being
ordered to recite the statement in
Arabic
is and one who recites is called
a quan the
recitation now there's more to this
subject even than we could discuss in 20
or 30 programs like this but what we'd
like to do right now is give you a
chance to reflect on what I just said we
want to take a break and then we want to
come back and pick up with what we're
going to call the Quran and what it is
as recitation stay tuned right here
we're going to be back after this and
pick up with clearing and remov moving
lifting up this fog of misconceptions
about Islam and what it
teaches my name is shuni and this is
brought to you from Huda TV um in
today's edition we'll be discussing
about the day and night Allah equated
theat with Darkness the firmament with
darkness and equated the Earth with
light
why are there really pillars that cannot
be seen or is it an unseen pillar
everything is running but the
relationships are fixed so that it would
appear to people as if nothing is
running you see we are destroying the
our environment with our own hands and
that's why the Quran
says
alhamdulillah we're back you're watching
lifting the fog and removing the
misconceptions misunderstandings and
misrepresentations about Islam and what
it teaches I'm your host youf Estus we
were talking in the earlier segment
about the subject of the attacks the
harsh treatment that people have
presented toward the Quran the holy book
in Islam what we discussed was some of
the Miracles of the Quran some of the
evidences that the Quran itself couldn't
be from a human being being but rather
it had to be from some other
source and now particularly we want to
deal in this segment with the word Quran
itself we spoke about this already that
the Quran means that which is being
recited I want to mention that sometimes
when you translate very often when you
translate you can't get exactly the
meaning of what you want but
particularly if a language is very rich
in a particular subject which the other
language doesn't support then you're
forced to substitute words that really
don't carry the right meaning such is
the case in English which by the way is
a very good language when you're talking
about a lot of the material things of
the world but when you discuss the depth
of the subject of Islam the Arabic
language is so rich and so powerful that
only the Arabic of the Quran can handle
these these words the meanings that go
with it to give you an example the very
first word that comes in the Quran was
revealed to Muhammad peace and blessing
be upon him while he was in a
sabatical in a cave he was in a retreat
he was fasting he was praying and in the
night called leer the night of power the
angel Gabriel descended down and came to
the cave where he was and the angel
embraced him and then ordered him in the
Arabic language he gave him a command
when he
said immediately the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him was understanding you
want something for me I have to do
something the translators very often use
the word
read but as we'll see in this segment
that doesn't really convey the message
of what was being said
here because unfortunately when people
translated it this way some of the
successive folks in the English language
that come along later said well this is
an indication here Muslims need to get
an education learn how to read and write
go to a university get a degree and
become a PhD and that's all from this
word
iara it's not
true for sure Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him never did learn how to read and
write so if that was an order there he
never did do it in fact it's something
even more profound it is to do
what
recite recite because it
says trying to give you a little
translation to the plus minus the
English now here is an order that's
coming from Allah Al Mighty through the
angel Gabriel to Muhammad telling him
recite the response he says is I'm not
of the
reciters
laari then it's
repeated again and then again and then
finally the verse that you just heard to
the English more or less I believe it
would be better to say he was being
ordered recite in the name of your lord
who
created Created Mankind from a leech
like clot of
blood I want to stop for a minute and
let you know about this word alak
because that's the name of the chapter
or Surah the blood clot or
alaka what's happening here
is a description of something that
nobody could have known about 1,400
years ago because it's only through a
special type of microscope and a way to
look inside of a mother when she
conceives inside of her womb this baby
because the egg is fertilized and as a
zot
attaches uh and becomes an alak hanging
on the wall of the
uterus nobody knew this until just in
the last
century and that's using equipment that
wasn't even thought about being invented
back then and alak also means a leech
and that's exactly the shape of that
little tiny baby under a microscope when
he first formed it looks more like a
leech than a human plus he is sucking
the blood right out of the mother the
same exact way that a leech does well
that's not
all it forms a clot of blood it looks
like a leech but it's also something
which clings and it's interesting that
when you have I don't know if you have
like my house we have a refrigerator on
the front of the refrigerator door are
all these magnets hanging there this
would be correct in Arabic to call them
alocs because the way they're clinging
and hanging there now if you think about
this How could somebody describe that in
the very first statement coming in the
Quran but let's get back to our main
subject and listen to the rest of the
translation Allah said he's created
Mankind from an
alak then he continues by saying recite
and your lord is most
generous who taught man how to use a pen
and he taught man what he doesn't
know this is an amazing statement coming
to us from our
creator and he's telling us that he
created us in the first place he's the
one who's generous to us and he is the
one who has taught us taught us what we
didn't
know I want to mention something else
here about the
Quran it doesn't come like the book
that's written by a human being whenever
I write anything or you write anything
we're talking about events that take
place we have a tendency to always write
them in what's called chronological
order and that what we're talking about
here is the way things happen the
sequence first this then that and then
so and so and that's chronological order
and this is normal human beings in the
beginning so and so and so then so and
so and so but the Quran comes in a way
that can be picked up and you could read
it anywhere you can open it in the
middle in the back in the front and read
you can recite Quran from any standpoint
and enjoy it and take benefit from it
and not feel like you missed something
in the previous
chapters so this again indicates it's
coming from somewhere other than human
beings
the fact that many times myself included
people have picked up the Quran and just
opened it and said oh there's the answer
to what I was looking
for this is something where the Quran is
talking to us even the big scholars in
Islam will tell you and they've
memorized the Quran cover to cover they
will say though there are times when I
open it up and it just speaks to me and
I read something that I've read all my
life and suddenly I understood a mean
meaning that I didn't know
before and this is the only book like
it but now I want to come to another
point the memorization of the Quran here
is something that I don't know if you
know a lot about memorizing things but
if you even memorize one page of
something that's an amazing thing just
to memorize a page of anything not big
not the telephone book just a book pick
up a book and try to memorize word for
word and have somebody P the book on you
and you recite and see how close you
could get and see how many years it
takes you to memorize two or three pages
just to be able to do
it and then imagine this the Quran came
at a time when memorization and
recitation was the big thing of the AR
Arabian
Peninsula and people of that time were
astounded and Amazed by such a
recitation as this it didn't compare to
anything they
know the companions of Muhammad peace be
upon Him heard what he recited they in
turn memorized it completely and then
they in turn memorized and helped those
in next Generations to do the same
thing by reciting and memorizing
reciting and memorizing Muslims today
have achieved the same as Muslims in
those days the ability to hear and
recite
and even if they hear somebody recite
incorrectly to catch it and say wait
that's a
mistake the leaders or imams for the
Muslims stand in front of the prayer and
they recite from the Quran and several
of our prayers every
day while they're reciting if they make
a single mistake even a tiny
mistake there are those behind them who
can catch it and let them know that they
need to repeat
that what other book do we know like
this and by the way when we talk about
the memorization of the Quran some
people estimate there are approximately
one and a half billion Muslims on the
Earth today and I will assure you if
they're Muslims and they pray they know
by memory at least a portion of the
Quran even though 80% of all the Muslims
today are not Arabs they don't speak
Arabic language but they've memorized
this Quran to some extent at least in
the Arabic
language every single Muslim on Earth
knows how to
say the first statement in the
Quran and almost every single one if
they pray I guarantee you they know in
Arabic the first chapter of the Quran
the whole first chapter every member of
the Islamic faith but that's not all
listen to
this there are so many today who have
memorized the entire Quran that we
cannot count
them imagine
that there are over
6,320 verses in the Quran more than that
yet over 10 million human beings walking
on this Earth today have memorized it
exactly the same way letter for letter
word for word sentence paragraph page
and chapter
complete just as it was recited by
Muhammad peace and blessing be upon him
so is it recited and memorized and
passed on
today what other work of literature of
Prophecy of science
have we seen in the history of mankind
that compares to the
Quran we invite you to explore for
yourself to learn more about the Quran
the truth about the Quran and the truth
about Islam and what it stands for let
us work together to remove this fog
let's lift the fog and find the real
truth about Islam the Muslims Allah and
the Quran until next time this is Yousef
Estus reminding you it's only Allah that
guides and may He guide all of us to the
truth
amen