but unfortunately those who don't know
or perhaps are even enemies to Islam are
misquoting and misusing verses from the
Quran teachings from Muhammad peace be
upon him and particular incidences which
were used to show something very very
beautiful in
Islam we talked about in a previous
program how to break down the word Islam
and the word Islam deals with something
all about peace
tranquility submission to God obedience
to God actually wanting God's will to be
done on Earth as it is in heaven this is
straight out of the
Bible also another thing that we talked
about when we were talking about this
subject of what is Islam we realize that
everything in Islam we're having the
truth for it we have to speak the truth
we have the proof the evidences are all
there and in reality it's the people who
are presenting these
stories if you will or accusations who
are either
exaggerating misrepresenting and in some
cases they're outright lying about what
Islam
teaches here's a point for us to
consider if somebody's lying if they're
not telling the truth and we are telling
the truth and we can prove it this will
have a bigger impact on an
audience than all the debates you can
have in the world
because a liar is automatically kicked
out of society nobody wants to hang
around with a liar regardless of his
other credentials the fact that he's a
liar speaks louder than anything else so
it's imperative that Muslims must do two
things number one don't open your mouth
unless you're going to speak the truth
and number two learn the subject so that
you don't misrepresent it too and if you
don't know say I don't know
now specifically we were talking on the
subject of what they say is a violent
verse in the Quran talking about killing
people we want to keep in mind that the
Quran never ever contradicts itself
never so if there's a verse in the Quran
telling us to go out and take innocent
lives then how are we going to deal with
another verse in the Quran which says
the
opposite in Surah Alm at chapter 5 of
the Quran if you go by the numbers like
I do I think it's in verse 34 you can
look it up and find it for
yourself it's telling here real
clear that whoever takes an innocent
life it's as though they killed all the
humanity this is not a joke this is very
serious and then it says whoever Saves a
Life it's as though they saved all of
humanity now how could you take this
verse which is the clear verse of the
Quran
and then say that it also says that you
can take innocent lives it doesn't work
if such a contradiction really existed I
promise you the enemies of Islam would
have been all over this one even at the
time of Muhammad peace be upon him and
naturally that's not
true let me give you another little
example when it talks about kital and
that was the word that we spoke about in
another program kital is a word that is
difficult to translate to English some
of the previous translators have used
such words as
kill which is not totally wrong
Slaughter which is definitely wrong and
words along that order but in reality if
you know the verse in
context and you study the melid the
Arabic dictionary a little closer you'll
find that this word and the meaning
behind it is a lot more in line with a
word we use today all the time
combat to deal in Catal is to deal in a
form of killing that is only in combat
and it has big rules and restrictions
that go with
it now if the president of the United
States as an example orders troops to go
out to
defend
truth justice peace in the various
places where the United States sends
their troops they call it com
combat they call it military
combat now there's another phrase in the
in the English called mortal combat
Mortal Combat deals with meaning to kill
mortal means to kill so if it's
necessary to kill in combat this is okay
according to the Geneva Convention also
it's okay according to the United States
and it's also okay according to Islam
but Islam is having more
restrictions and more rules about this
Cel or combat than the United States
does and it has more rules about it than
even the Geneva
Convention let me explain what I'm
talking
about for instance when the verse comes
in the Quran it's ordering the Muslims
to engage in combat those who are
already engaging in combat with them
ordering them turned them out from where
they turned you out who is it talking
about it's talking about people that had
killed Muslims before abused them
horribly kicked them out of their own
land out of their own hom stole their
property even took their women they did
a lot of bad things now after 13 years
comes this verse saying go back now and
reclaim what's rightfully yours if you
have to engage in combat you do so but
watch this in the same verse not a
separate verse verse same verse it says
but if they
cease if they stop if they are no longer
engaging in this Mortal Combat you have
to stop
too because then if you didn't you would
be a transgressor and verily Allah does
not love the
transgressors now that's as clear as you
can get if they stop you have to stop
there are other limitations that go
along with this k
or type of
combat one of them is that when you
engage in this kind of combat it is not
permissible to kill or even hurt anybody
other than those who are actually
attacking you so innocent lives must be
preserved according to the Quran and the
Sunnah in other words the Sharia or
Islamic law the innocent children of
course the women the elders the
religious people all of these people are
to be
spared and even the animals and even the
plant life even the infrastructures are
not to be
damaged because this is the ruling in
Islamic
law now somebody might come along and
say y but now wait a minute we know
about a Hadith and that's funny you know
what that the people who don't want to
believe in Islam yet they study it to
try to find something wrong with it
there are many Hadith they number in the
hundreds of thousands okay Hadith means
a story or a teaching in Islam they find
one and then they find a way to take a
part of it out of that and say this is
all we want to mention that's just this
part right here where the Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon Him ordered some
of his companions to go out and to kill
certain people and he uses this word to
kill them and they did kill them and it
was really bad but what they leave out
is the fact that these people were worse
than the worst of the terrorists that we
have today the people had come to them
pretended they wanted to be Muslims
pretended they wanted to be a part of
the community and they began to accept
the things that go along with the social
community of Islam they were taking the
benefits then they went out and
slaughtered innocent Muslims and killed
teachers and memorizers of the Quran