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dean alhamdulillah peace be unto you
thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the dean show you have
testified you've declared what's in your
very nature that there is only one God
that I will not worship a man a monkey
an elephant an ant a mouse the Sun the
moon I'm not going to worship any of
these things I'm not going to ship a man
or woman I'm going to I'm going to
worship the creator of man and woman and
I'm going to obey the messenger that was
sent if I was living during the time of
Jesus I would have followed his
teachings he was the way the truth and
the light if I was living during the
time of Moses I would have followed his
teachings but the last and final
messenger sent to mankind is the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him you have
testified to this you've testified to it
you've started to to get into
establishing the prayers five times a
day and you're checking into the fasting
Ramadan is coming com up and all the
other pillars of Islam it's very simple
it's rational now there's some confusion
you're asking questions there's some
things you're studying but you're going
to some of the masjids you're hanging
around with some people who got the name
tag Muslim but you're seeing that hold
on I'm reading something I'm
investigating Quran says this the way of
the Prophet says that where are they
getting this stuff home is this back
home culture or is this Islam all this
and more next on a Dean show
Allah there's only one God and muhamad
is his messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one and Jesus was his
messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
maybe it's just to break the ice Alum
peace be with you
peace be with you too thank you for
being with us here on the show it's a
pleasure thanks for having me thank you
and we're going to get straight in the
topic because the time pretty soon we'll
be going to commercial break another
commercial break and it's done is
finished that's right so we're going to
get straight down to business we want to
follow the way the way that has been s
down by the creator of the heavens and
earth so do those sincere and humble
people I just want you to be able to
show how many other of the different
people
who had a messenger and then they
started to follow back home cultures and
things got all mixed up and the people
went astray we see it happening today
you have the Quran the verba and word of
God and you have the Sunnah the way the
authentic teachings of the last and
final messenger but man now it's become
like a buffet you got this person doing
this from his back home culture and
there's some good food and good other
things in culture and there's no problem
there so how do we differentiate what is
the correct way and back home culture
thing is that just been created by man
can you just briefly touch upon the
history of how other Generations when
they went away from the teachings of
their prophets things got out of control
and how we don't want that to happen to
us
today well if you look in the history of
how people okay from from the point of
view of the teaching of the Quran the
original religion of human beings was
the worship of the one God not the story
that we have been given through
Evolution that human beings you know as
they evolved they were worshiping all
these different things that they were
afraid of and then you know as they
evolved more they you know started
worshiping fewer and fewer gods and then
they had a sky God and then eventually
they have this you know one God and then
eventually you know according to this
logic when we evolved enough we realized
there is no God you know this is there
this is their idea but no we believe of
course that the first human being was
Adam that God created Adam and from Adam
he created Eve and from Adam and Eve
came many men and women yes and that the
original religion of Adam and the
children of Adam the descendants of Adam
was monotheism the the worship of the
one God there was actually amongst the
people of Noah the prophet Noah his
people were the first people to worship
idols MH and they did that by it was a
really a trick of the devil Shan
you know they had amongst them some
Pious people those Pious people died
they became really really upset and then
they were EXA you know they were just
too much upset and this is where Shayan
saw his opportunity so he came to them
and then he encouraged them to do
something that Adam had never taught
that had never been part of the religion
he said why don't you make statues and
why do you make pictures of these Pious
people and hang them in your heart homes
and put them in your places of gathering
so when you see them you will remember
God
more so it was a new thing it was an
innovation in
religion it was not something the
prophets had ever taught and it was a
suggestion from the devil but what is
really interesting is that the devil
suggested something that seems to be
good and what's wrong with remembering
God more you see I see this Pious person
I remember how good they were I remember
how holy they are they were I get
encouraged you know to be a more Pious
person from the outside it seems good
but of course Shayan has a big plan so
now what happens now this is the devil
the satanic forces well no Shayan
himself does he have also his
descendants those he he does but you
know he's Shayan is a living individual
being Not a Human Being but a gin which
is like a spirit
okay um so anyway he but but he's
waiting and what happens after
Generations passed the people forgot why
their ancestors had made these
statues as that's what happens after
time people
forgot and then Shan came to them the
devil came to them and he said you know
why your ancestors made these statues so
that in your time of distress and
need you should go and ask these people
cuz they're Pious people go is not going
to listen to you your soul full of sin
so you ask these Pious people and they
will take your prayers to God they will
be intercessors between you and God and
this is how people started to worship
idols and this is idolatry this is why
in Islam worshiping Saints praying to
Prophets You Know calling upon them
thinking that they will take your
prayers to God as if you have an
intermediat this is all considered to be
idolatry but the guy says look I mean he
say this was a right man I myself am not
that righteous all I'm doing is asking
him because look you can make Dua for me
but okay the first thing is they're dead
and dead people can't hear you so
calling upon a dead person is like
calling upon a brick a brick the dead
can't hear you the Quran
says you can't make the dead to hear
right in fact Allah is giving this
example say meaning you can't just as
you can't make dead people here you
can't make a person who doesn't want to
know the truth you can't make them
follow it but the point is that Allah is
showing the dead can't hear you and an
obstinate person who doesn't want to
listen you can't make them listen so the
dead can't hear calling upon a dead
person right and I mean dead in the
physical sense okay they may be
spiritually alive but they are dead they
are not in this world anymore you can't
marry them you can't do business with
them you can't trade with them right you
know so that you can't have a convers
with them so it's cut off no more so
yeah and that's what it means Barak and
that's why we don't believe in ghosts
there's no like Souls of dead people
wandering around no the dead are in
another dimension yes their souls exist
but they can't hear us okay so calling
upon a dead person it doesn't matter how
Pious they are even the prophet Muhammad
Jesus Moses doesn't matter who it is if
they you know they are in that other the
Barak there is a barrier that's a
barrier the dead can't hear the living
so cooling upon them is like Cooling
upon a brick because they can't hear you
so the issue is is nothing to do with
how Pious they are it's just that
calling upon dead people if the pious
person was sitting right here and I say
oh Eddie you're such a good holy man can
you ask God that's fine there's no
problem you can ask a person who's
living and right here if you think
they're righteous but if he's in
Connecticut or in Japan well you can
phone them on the phone right but if you
can you sit here like this or put a big
picture in front of you and start to you
know talk to him or Envision him of
course that's the same thing that's
calling upon something that can't hear
you and can't help you right and the
only one that we should call upon like
that is Allah is God the Creator the
only one that we should call upon like
that is God because the only one who can
hear you wherever you are even if you
are an ant inside a rock on the deepest
part of the
ocean God can hear the call of that an
so this is not Islam this is some kind
of culture paganism that's crept in yeah
absolutely so this is this is a really
good example of how people follow the
way of their ancestors and following the
way of their ancestors LED them to
commit the worst crime a human being can
ever make and that is to make a partner
or a rival or an associate with God to
worship something when you should only
worship God only worship God we'll be
right back with more on the de
show on the outside everything looks
good you see the $100,000 CS you see a
lot of diamonds you see a lot of females
and they think that this is you know
this is the life this is this is you
know Paradise right here on
Earth not anyone's job to go into
someone's heart and change their heart
your job is to tell people what the
truth is and the reality of it is while
we're sitting here while I'm sitting
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we are back here on the dean show you
gave a beautiful example this is in the
Quran the retim word of God this example
the the the story of Noah is in the
Quran but this the how the people
actually came to worship idols is not in
the Quran it was mentioned uh by
Abdullah IB Abbas who was the cousin of
the prophet and he was very well known
for his explaining the Quran so
obviously he heard this from the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
peace and blessings to be upon this is
beautiful example how when you deviate a
little bit from the game plan the
blueprint you go astray yeah and then
you see the thing the people then the
people think this is religion yeah they
think that this is the religion and the
same thing was the case in the time of
the Prophet Muhammad you know and in
fact if you read the Quran you will find
all the prophets Jesus faced the same
thing you know there there's a famous uh
well there's I don't know how famous it
is these days but there's you know
there's a story in the gospels right
tell us well the one of the stories in
the gospels um that is mentioned is
about you know uh how those people those
those Pharisees and those rabbis they
had taken they had made things up
basically and they gave those things the
weight that should only be given to the
laws of God so they they the the
man-made ideas that they had the
man-made Concepts that they had they
actually really gave them that Authority
as as if those things were from God
right so you find that this is something
the all the prophets are experiencing
they're coming to tell people this is
not the religion this is not what God
told you to do God never commanded you
to do this but those people have
supplanted the true religion that was
bought with the messengers for their own
man-made cultures and Customs now it may
be that
sometimes in you see when it comes to
when it comes to the religion of Islam
Islam has a built in flexibility that
allows it to really be practiced just
about anywhere and so sometimes we do
take into
account the culture of people let me
give you an example
right
um in some societies right just a simple
thing what if I undid my buttons right
all down the way down to my chest or
undid my buttons and showed my chest
right now in some societies and some
cultures they would look down on that
and say well that's how bad people you
know gangsters they dress like that you
know with their shirts open and so on
right okay whatever right so the point
is being here is that a Muslim should
not look like a gangster or a bad person
right you should try and look
respectable but sometimes what is
respectable is different from society to
society even though the prophet Muhammad
himself used to keep his buttons open
yeah right but then no one considered
that to be something disrespectable in
that Society so you see some of those
things may change from culture to
culture certain situation into situation
and these are not things that Islam has
ordered this or ordered that right
rather Islam has ordered us to be good
it's ordered us to be of the best
character of the best type of behavior
we can have many examples Muslims are
famous everywhere for being
late you you want to organize a dinner
you want to organize a talk you tell
everyone we'll start at 7:00 No One
turns up till 8:00 and they don't think
you're going to start till 8:30 whereas
in the west if you tell people come at 8
you're expecting people there to be
eight maybe 5 past 8 maybe 15 past at
the latest you don't expect people to
turn up an hour and a half late it's
considered really bad manners so these
things change from culture to culture
now the problem is a lot of Muslims they
have adopted habits and customs and
practices that are from their
culture which may be perfectly
acceptable where they come from but that
doesn't mean that that's acceptable way
to behave in the west some of those
practices may be necessary for whatever
reasons I don't know maybe there's
scarcity of food scarcity of whatever I
don't know the different circumstances
they may even have practices that are
necessary and beneficial in the land
they came from but they have no
importance and relevance in you know in
the western context now the problem is
Muslims come from different countries to
live in the west and they bring their
culture with them and they think that
this package they have is Islam because
Islam is such a deep part of their
culture it's so deep in their culture
they think that what they do is Islam
but it's not always the case I give you
an example the best example I think is
of uh arranged marriages like forced
marriages forced marriages and arranged
marriages now now even In some cultures
they have forced marriages where
literally a woman even a man it's not
just a woman the man and the woman are
literally just married sometimes they
don't even know that they're married
they just that's it that's your husband
that's your wife they have no choice
they have no say now actually from the
point of view of Islamic law this is not
even considered to be valid it's not
valid because part of a marriage being
considered to be valid in Islamic law is
that the two people who are getting
married agree to it so this is again
culture has nothing to do with Islam it
has nothing to do withl is it safe to
say that Islam didn't come to eradicate
all different customs of culture but
just the things that are bad exactly it
kept the goodt the keeps the good things
if there's a good thing in a culture
like being polite or like being on time
or like being clean it not doesn't say
give that up okay but walking in the
street with a thong that's and that's
your culture everybody's doing it
walking in no because obviously you know
I understand what a thong is so that's
called just just an ex extreme example
or you're walking around in bathing
suits in this town of course the Islam
has some limits right so what a person
can do and can't do has to fit the
limits of the Divine legislation yeah
God has given us a type of you know a
type of limit that we should follow in
terms of women's dress and men's dress
right interaction between the the Sexes
right there are some limits these limits
have been laid down by Allah and you
should follow those limits but within
those limits right you have flexibility
so it's dressed but as long as it's
modest exactly okay say for example a
woman's dress a woman's dress she should
she should cover everything except her
face and her hands and people should
recognize her as a Muslim but as long as
you fulfill those conditions and the
clothes are loose it doesn't mean you
have to wear the bka like in Saudi
Arabia or in Afghanistan even if you
look at the dress of the women in
Afghanistan it's different the veil is
different different in Afghanistan than
it is from Saudi Arabia so now the
culture if it's a different little style
patterns in there that's the culture it
depends you look in Nigeria for example
okay and they wear very colorful very
bright clothes because really probably
in different cultures you will find that
that is not considered to be you know
like enticing whereas maybe in Saudi
Arabia it would be so these things are
going to be you know are going to change
from time to time and place to place but
the basic rule is when a woman is out in
Islam she should only show her face in
her hands if she wants to cover her face
that's good she can do that if she wants
now you gave example forc marriages
arranged marriages is different I want
to introduce you your son to my daughter
and see if they like each other under
supervision arranged marriages are a
normal again it's part of the culture in
Muslim countries that follow the
religion the Sexes tend to be quite
segregated you know they don't really
mixed they don't go mix at school they
don't mix at University they don't they
limited mixing in the workplace even in
the marketplaces you know so the
segregation is there protect from
promiscuity and okay there's reasons for
it we don't won't go into that but the
point is is that there are good reasons
for it yeah but that is the sort of
normal pattern you know so how does a
boy meet a girl the only way ultimately
you meet and get married is through
family and through friends because
practically that's the only way to do it
yeah does that mean if a Muslim girl in
Canada for example or in in the states
yeah goes to University and a Muslim boy
and and they meet each other and you
know they talk and they get to like each
other you know is that necessarily uh
you know does that mean that this
marriage is not allowed because it
wasn't arranged no people can meet each
other they can like each other but
obviously they need to follow the limits
of Islam which means the girl the she
the man should go and seek permission to
marry this girl from her father normally
her father but whoever her guardian is
and she should get his permission and
the marri should be done according to
the rules in Islam okay so they should
agree there should be Witnesses the
father should witness okay so as long as
those things are there and as long as
they're meeting and talking with each
other is not leading them to you know
things that are forbidden in Islam then
okay that's a different culture we live
in a different culture in the west so we
explained that and then forc marriage is
forcing a woman to marry someone this is
or a man it's not by the way women some
people think it's only women get forced
not men just small examples the man
before we go to break we want to hit
this point now sometimes they say the
Muslim and they see the Muslim man up
front and the woman's 20t behind them
and they say what is this have you okay
I simply explain it in Muslim countries
not all of them but in some cultures the
man walks ahead because there are other
men walking when they come they greet
each other right and so the wife stays
behind because it's nothing to do with
her whether this man is meeting that man
right so he just stands in front from
the point of view of this is what anyway
this is what my wife explained to me
right you you know but if you but you
don't find that for example in the time
of the Prophet The Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam would walk with his
wives even sometimes it's reported they
would hold each other's hands you know
these type of things so you might be
amazed when you go back to reading the
actual life of the prophet and what
happened in that time that some things
that Muslims in certain cultural
contexts you know they don't practice
those things I give you another example
you know for example in uh in Pakistani
culture some Pakistani culture you know
the idea of a man and woman seeing each
other naked is even a husband and wife
even a husband and wife in something
don't even see each other naked it's
like but the prophet Muhammad and AA
used to take showers together they used
to take you know they used to wash
together yeah right and they even used
to fight with each other to take the
water so again another perfect example
culture culture and Islam so separate
this and come to the so but that's fine
if that's your culture you don't I'm not
going to say you know you can't have
that type of behavior but don't tell
everyone that this is Islam and don't
make everyone think that this is the
right way to behave because your culture
is not the Criterion the behavior of the
Prophet Muhammad and his companions that
is the Criterion not your culture let's
take a break we'll be right back with
more on the de show I
go to my room lock the door prostrate
and cry saying God you know me better
than myself show me the right way and I
will not look back I will leave
everything
behind Allah is our creator and he
creates everything and he gives
intelligence to
people muhamad pleas be upon Muhammad is
one of the last Messengers sent from
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God back here on the dean show giving
you some examples of culture and Islam
now there are just one more one more uh
female um mutilation female genital
mutilation is a ancient practice from
the times of pharaoh and actually it's
something forbidden by the prophet
Muhammad they did used to practice
circumcision of both men and women in
the time of the Prophet but it was for
the women a very small a very just a
small cut in the clitoris right that's
all that was allowed the prophet did not
allow you know what is known as
mutilation female genital mutilation
right and that is something the prophet
himself warned against now some Muslim
countries practice that but this is
something an example of a culture that
actually really goes against the
teachings of Islam so these are another
example of things that often Muslims
some Muslims think that this is the
religion it's not the religion it's got
nothing to do with the religion and so
how can we give us the formula that now
there are some things that are
acceptable with culture we talked about
some okay some foods that I mentioned
and other things that are good but there
are some things now that conflict with
acts of worship the simple formula is to
know what the Quran says to know what
the prophet Muhammad said and to know
what his companions were upon once you
understand that once you have that
knowledge then you'll begin to fit into
the framework and to see what is really
culture and really what is really the
religion and what are the bounds and the
boundaries between the two so it does
mean that you need to excuse me you need
to know you need to understand you need
to study the source texts of the
religion that's the the Quran the Sunnah
according to the understanding of the
early do we need a basis do we ask
questions say what's the proof the
evidence exactly because this is what's
important right you it Islam is not
based upon oh such and such says so I
saw someone doing this oh I saw some
Muslims doing that I saw some I saw some
Muslims doing whatever you can find
Muslims drinking it's very clear from
the Quran that drinking is Haram right
you find Muslims committing acts of
terrorism but you find it very clear
from the teachings of prophet Muhammad
that terrorism is something that is not
allowed in the religion of Islam so what
Muslims do is not a proof proof is What
God Says and what the prophet says so
what the verbatim word of God says the
Quran what the last and final messenger
said to mankind of prophet mammad peace
be upon them and the companions the best
of generations Y how they understood it
that's right now that is the criteria
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