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no god but
God God God there is
no god but
God Peace be upon you, may God’s peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you
all
it was indeed it was indeed and in fact this is something that cannot be denied historically as well uh it’s it’s well documented
that even priests and rabbis would
greet one another with the
greetings of peace in fact uh uh to this
day i believe um priests greet
each other with pisc in latin which basically
means peace be unto you so it's it's
well known it's something that all the
prophets of god used to agre one in fact
beautiful story we have in our tradition
uh that when god created adam yeah uh
and he told adam okay you
and hear what we say back and when he
said that the ang said so in the very
first conversation that took place ed
may peace be unto you that's a beautiful
greeting ised i think better he what's
up how you do break
show about the
for anding to god bless him as yeah and
this is one of the Questions that we're
going to be answering today why do you
guys say al and we just answer that so
moving on to the next because there's a
lot of common questions that people are
interested and this is the fastest
growing way of life and people
understand that we don't worship a black
box in the desert we don't pray to muhammad muhammad
is the last and final messenger peace be
upon him and all the
messengers god including jesus christ who one the god besid
that there is some other
question we are going try to go through they
ask here they ask us why don't we drink
alcohol why don't we drink alcohol well
um the simple answer is because god told
us that's the simplest answer which is a
foolproof answer we believe that god
knows best and whatever he tells us we do it
now does that mean we have blind
faith yes and no yes because we believe
that whatever god says we need to do it
but we
expect people to accept isam because
we tell them to we want people to
critically think and challenge
themselves and think about is relig not propet not
of god once answer yes all question
ration look at life propet pe
upon look teach look over
ruig why times of why is this allowed
and that not well i me there are always answers
the simple answer like said proof god
knows best we said so now that's the
first answer and that's the best answer
there are also other anw as tells us
very clearly says alic drinks
way drugs
mind marijuana coke crack is
out any of these things are
severely prohibited in our religion some
people actually say that it doesn't say
now that you can these are these are these are
muslims trying to justify
things no scholar says no reputable
legal authority says this and of course
god says so in the quran quite clearly
that there is some benefit in alcohol nobody denies
those drink mean you know
uh there is some benefit al but god
says the evil is more than benefit harm is
more the good and so the harm caused
by alcohol is much more and i think any
government in the world especially our
western governments know this well the
number of ac number homicides number
crimes that occur under the influence
right are much more other crimes this is
something is well known from experience
living in any land where people drink
public openly look at what happens when
people drunk look
at crimes are committed in name drugs try
drugs righty people lally sell their
own kids in order to get those drugs we
see this in front of us so god says in
the quran there might be some benefit
you might get high but the harm is
greater than we see that all around murder
rap and most of the people are
under the influence yeah exactly you
mention the government didn't the
government try to ban alcohol one point did
and it go to show you manmade law
always be
tred with we muslim the law per because
it needs to be ched with yeah another common
question is why do you put these women
behind the veil why do you have them cover
up okay once again there's easy
response and then there's more
complicated the easy resp of course god
says so that's it i mean once we say
that really can't you know there's
nothing that to be said quite clear the Quran
very expli
wom by
wom cover cover less ex right can't
naked have cover between naval toe can't
go around wearing tight shorts even as a
muslim there's a sense of modesty so there
's restrictions not just on women
there's restrictions on men as well and
that's many people just overlook that
and jump to the women side now there's
no doubt that women have more coverings
on them and i think that even in western
society you know you go to the beach
women are wearing two p and men are
wearing one p even where there is
not that much modesty but still more att god
wisdom is second point first
point god says the second point that the
body of woman is far more abused and
misused later med advertising at ind what
is only
taking advage men anal instin and
desires at like that denr
we believe that these types of things are
far more is this is
denting womage wom
and relig come womy
and so now in
privacy
as all
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marri of marriage outside marriage all
need to be mined and
of the ways we minim it is
that we ask men and wom to modestly and
modesty is different between the genders
but for the wom modesty is defined as
covering the hair at least and
wearing Loose clothing and of course you
know the finer details vary from culture to
time place but over the primary
condition is loose clothing and the body
covered including the hair and that's why
they wear head scarf over there
now this is interesting because if you
come from just as you said the crate said
so we're not making her the man's not making
her but the crater told her to do
it and she is submitting to the
injunctions of the crate as the man is as
well yeah exactly and you also have you have
certain restaurants you just can't
come in without shoes or you can't come
without a shirt no shoes no shirt no
serv what it says you can't go into the cour
any that you want once upon a you
couldn't even wear your cap in front of
the jud exactly
but the crater knows how
much need to be me you know we live in
america in america in the majority of
states nudity is a punishable offense
yeah the state
imposes a restriction on clothing right
you cannot walk the streets of chicago
or you know i don't know the laws of
illan but assuming you know me most
states you cannot walk the streets naked
you will be punished jailed for religion perri you do
today you couldn't do 10
years ago you could do 10 years ago you
couldn't do 100 years ago 100 years ago
no respectable woman would her house
without cover in this country this is inner every
woman would have cover with bose
clothing would a mini skirt or
anything like that this is 100 years ag
these are our own great grandmothers you
know wh we are from the so
we of moral in manmade we believe our
greatm and our generation we the same human
being we believe what was good for
them should be good for us we e the same
food we drink the same water we bre the same
air we the same human being even if
we go to the moon and back our morality
should remain the same and so i think it makes
a lot of sense when our religion
tells us these restrictions are that they are
eternal they don't change from time to place not not amendment that
you know cancel
and should talk to these wom the
women who have submitted to the creator
and they have chosen not to be slaves to the
fashion to society to a man but to
the creator that they're truly free
isn't it exactly i mean i encourage you
if you see a lady wearing a scarf muslim
lady with all respect intimation just
ask her politely is anyone forcing you to do
this or do you want to do this on
your own in fact i mean know a of cleric
as you spe wom
par force them not to wear the scf the
you know the parents are so scared not
that they hate the religion
they scared that americans the br
society is har scared
some push worse so want them to there
yes but i would say by and lge we are
all americans here say by and lge we are
a tolerant society and maybe might be a few
comments here and there but by and
large me there is not a threat to life and
now that's the case right now but there are
places in the world where sometimes
you know being identified as whatever sometimes
the jews were harassed
sometimes you know the african americans
were har sometimes mexicans you know
there are places where if muslim it
might dangerous to show that and soly
such circumstance
but i would by and lge in north america
we are enjoying great amounts of freedom
and we need to make that people
know our faith and we proud to be who we
are and also be proud to be ethnically
and culturally and nationally who we are
as well there is no there is no
contradiction being an american a white
person or a black person or a muslim all
they're all compatible together now
these are some of the common questions
which we can encourage you to go to the
de.com where we actually have a on the
site for new muslims and we address
ex are
along with
my people
ask how is theat allows a man in Islam to
have more than one wife how is this how
can this be something they envision
now the man with a har of
women spe spe
one Allah givil to guide with permission permission
that is in this the
whole in it
the best of but if we that ed would not
and this is that we encourage [
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and how do we explain how do someone do you go
into this well well this is definit a
question that a lot of muslims get asked
and it raises a lot of eyebrows and
there are a lot of stereotypes attached to it
and there is no doubt that culturally
speaking it is problematic for many
people understand vision but it's that
our religion has
allowed a man to marry more one woman
not our religion me is a well many
cultures and societies and in fact to
this day there are many countries where
this is legal not necessarily muslim
countries i was in south africa last we
and their president has i think three
wives and this is president of south
africa which is a very modern western
country you said why not girlfriends oh no
yeah that's the whole point some
presid we know have had girlfriends i
think
so
relig possible
capable for man take more one with
certain relig and again necess requirement
option andary popular op
vast one wife things are all i
95% all over vastor basic one wife
husb relig does all for ausb take more
one wife the only religion that so att
to it now in other societies and
cultures there are no take as many as
you want treat them as you in our
religion any man legal for him to he
chooses to take wife are str att them is
equity them is
beable can't take on a mist or
girlfriend and then say my wife he got to take care
of them all of these are
understood that the husband is going to take care
of all of his wies and all his
children equ and that's a that i think is
once very l this is that
today was
ch according to people desires if we
look back a little this was something
that was normal wasn't it yes for most
societies and cultures around the world
it was indeed normal even as every
christian jew knows even in biblical
times the average person had more than one
wife and that's because of the
circumstances situations that they that
they went through i mean most of the
prophets of God in the Bible had more
than one wife and so me again like i said
a person find this you know
culturally he does ahe
necessary not all not any better musl
if you have two wis Islam is not affected
you don't have to not even
necessarily encouraged to discourage a
neutral thing if you want to and there
legitimate you know reason and cause you
are justified
making take care of them all
equally an option that is available if
circumstances are appropriate if a
person doesn't want to that's compl permiss
as m you
think about you know there's an access
of women there are some say the
census bure that you have 10
single mothers out there you have nearly
700,000 women who lose their husbands
each years men in prison some are leaning
towards other men called
homosexuality how
hb the Sol to how it is it we yeah exactly
this is the whole point is that if you want to
talk about justifications we can
go on and on and on and show that this is
something that biologically
psychologically there are a lot of positives
of course there are some
negatives as well nobody is denying that
nothing is 100% perfect in any situation scenario
there is no doubt
that there are some issues involved as know
taking wife but we
prov this religion would
say great any nees that might come
because of as static are quite clear i
think every country facing and by
nature abuse wom much more sex have a
relationship move on relig pr that if
you want to have a relationship take take
human treat
respects there aot of psychic factors
does make aot of and in me uh i'm just
saying not to the relig politically
speaking now with the legality of
homosexuality pretty much know legality
meaning in terms modern american laws
bec comm legs from conne coned
wave is quite clearly going to be polygamy it
is yes i have i have read a
number of articles out there was an
article out in the law and society
journal last month or something where a
non-muslim nothing to do with islam is
basically saying look if you're going to remove
restrictions you need to remove
all restrictions and therefore if a
person wants to marry more than one person
they're all agreeing and happy
with it if the government alling two men
to get married right why shouldn't it allow
a man to get married doesn't make
any s doesn't make any sense at all for
the tru who humble and he wants to do
even if he that stage but you know he
just us a good comm he not being someone
who just looking for trouble this makes
sense now there are some people that are
pointing the finger but they don't
understand point back at them you see
televangelist people who are out there
you know they try to make fun of the
muslim but then you switch the channel
and you hear people like the jmy swag and my bakers
and et and
we
can whole page and be prostitutes they cau
with sever of them this is
hypocritical is it it is it is and it's
a very major problem and of course i
mean we're not denying that this doesn't
occur in our religion as well of course
there are muslims who also fall into
these things you know we had we had
cases in our culture we have cases in
other cultures but the thing that we
argue for le our religion provides
very good what we are for nobody perfect
caning jewish rl
also may there as buts and muslims have alter
you can't expect a human
being to dedicate to god and do not have
any desires we would say this is unnatural state
of affairs where you tell
this man do not get married not
alled to get married we would say
inevitable there be a preponderance
promiscuity and mol among those people pointing
fingers like you said easy to
the point is we have a solution and that solution
does make a lot of sense and i
mean it's only a matter of time like i
said there are already many people
arguing the case and as you know certain facts of
the mormon church not the
mainstream church but there is a fa of
the mormon church that very publicly
engages in in poy which is one man
marrying more than one husband by the
way polygamy is too broad because
polygamy means poy is the more precise one polygamy
means plurality of spouses
so you can have one man with many wives
or you can have one woman with many husbands
our religion and also this
version of the mormon religion it only
allows poy which is one man with more than one woman
now of course the mormons allow
unlimited wives we have a
restriction that's a maximum of four so
the point is there is a wave now
starting here in America to legalize
poy uh and i only think it's a matter of
time i mean muslims not really involved
with this wave by the way yet but it's
only a matter of time because if we get
on board i
i don't have a comment about whether
we should or not because it's happening
anyway there are people who are arguing
the paper that i read it was written by
somebody who actually secularist he has
nothing to do with the religion but he
simply saying look if a person wants to take care
of another and her
children and you woman know be responsible
it's better for society to legalize it
that's a very common sense you know
person you said something take care of
her her her children or her herself just give her
her rights because now i think it's on that
man have on give some money bu some cl
give you a call when i need you ex be a thr
for her
but in long run she actually they use
the good words easier like girlfriend and mist
it's kind of like a concubine isn't it it is i me be
quite she has no
benefits no
stability and she know going to be dropped
as soon as you know he fulfilled with
her and moves on to younger girl or in
marri marf ching there
element respect
dignity even inil not all marries work
outes human relation
andes very beautiful makes is am
because for and any tru and musl
that is just another proof that this is
the truth from the creator it covers
every aspect of life exactly it gives
you an option when you need it and if you don't need it
then you don't need to take the
option i mean the three
candidates that were running for
president i means if they would have done
this if it was allowed they wouldn't
have to go
on infidelity exactly this is something that
we are running away from we don't
want girlfriends we want wise we care to take care
of them give their rights
not treat them like a concubine or a
woman who's just here fly by night
that's the whole point it gives you respect
and legitimacy they did a survey i
was listening to one individual who
was talking about they survey had some
of these women that were the second or
maybe the third fourth it doesn't have
like a limit you could be like the 10
mist said if you had
a if you can be a second wife to take
that on continue being like this you
know s kick what would you do almost all
of them said they take exactly and the
point is all voluntary i mean nobody is
forcing on any woman if a woman wants to be
in a relationship where she's a
second or third wife then actively
speaking we need to really redefine if
we're going to allow two men to be together
why can't we allow you know two
women who want to be married to the same
husband again it's all up to the women
nobody forcing it on her
yeah so we cool cover a couple more
points there's a lot moreon questions
that we don't have time to answer here
today on you can visit the.com under the
non se we have the whole array question that
are commonly
asked us in to
someone who saw tr they might come ac
let me the musl non musl asked about
ises i think musl is asked about legal
command of islam the best thing to
because god why we do it r
why this why that how about if you
sanitize por can't you you know we just make
there no germs you know always going t o
have you know issues you just
say look god said so so if it's a legal issue
move back to the theology god said
so and i believe this is from god now
why do i believe from god you move into theology
you move into belief
prop a non is interested well again resp
be sim and that is the of legal rulings
sometimes will be beyond our
understanding like i said why we pray
times why is our charity 2.5% and not
10% 6% i don't have necess proper resp
for that so instead of thinking mind
rather look at theer and think is this a
religion from god or not and also think should
a religion that is truly from god
tell you how to your life or not because
a different chr isam lge ask
exs does and does not tell me how
my life doesn't that make and god have a divine
code which is which can be tuned immediately
theree ex
whate we can
tune me
well i mean actually means the way to
god which technical meing is the legal
system that we believe In thank you very
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