I'm sinful slave yo my love alone I'm
the one runs away Oleg I need this meal
alhamdulillah assalamualaikum which
means peace be unto you I'm very excited
to talk about our next topic I'm excited
all the time to talk about these
wonderful topics because they have to
deal with very important things so I'm
glad that you got a chance to tune in
today took a timeout from the material
world to talk about something serious I
got a very exciting email here they got
me excited and I'm going to share it
with you and then we're going to go into
our topic with our next guest so the
email goes a little something like this
it says hey Eddie as you may know from
the above my name is Justin I was raised
Catholic from a very young age and could
never understand the Trinity while
soul-searching I thought that I had
indeed found my home in the Church of
Jesus Christ of latter-day saints this
is what brings me to your website mr.
Eddie I cannot come to terms to believe
that a man died for my sins I cannot
believe that God sent himself as a son
to die none of this makes sense but lo
and behold I pray to God just God to
show me the right direction I'm not sure
if it just happened by chance but I came
across your show I've been looking into
Islam the Islamic faith and suddenly
everything just made sense from reading
about it I still do not fully comprehend
all of it but I do desire it I'm going
to get the Quran soon and immediately
start reading my only problem is my
family my grandparents are extremely
racist and I know that they will hate it
if I become Muslim I just need words of
encouragement at ease to know that what
I'm doing is okay I am seriously
considering converting after i get out
of the Navy basic training this summer
please respond and I'm responding to you
we're going to bring out our next guest
don't go nowhere we got exciting show
for you on salvation will be right back
on the Dean show
ya allah there's only one word and
Muhammad is His Messenger oh la la
ha there's only one when Jesus was his
messenger Allah no I did that maybe it
maybe it's just to break the ice I hope
you enjoyed that email that I got to
share with you from our soon-to-be
brother God willing we're going to try
to give him some encouragement we're
going to try to talk about proper
salvation the proper belief that the
creator of the heavens and earth has
sent down for all of mankind something
that makes sense and to help make sense
of it all my brother it's incredible
Minecon humbled I'm very good I'm glad
to have you with us again on the Dean
shown to be here so we're going to get
straight to it the we did a show with
you earlier and people got to hear a
little bit about you you run the vaina
Institute you specialize in the Arabic
language I'm trying to yes you know the
Quran the verbatim word of God to the
best of my ability but I'm still very
much a student yes so you can help us
out on this topic that we're trying to
help our brother out who's our brother
in humanity I feel that almost soon he
might be our brother in faith it's a
very simple step that you have to do
we're going to help give you some
encouragement to show you just how
simple it is with the right belief in
the one god and the Salvation it you
heard me read this where he talked about
the Trinity yes God being three but 11
and 3 i'm even God dying for our sins
let's start from here what do you ever
say well I think when I read this email
the most important thing that struck me
was commitment to truth yeah and and I
think his his request for help is very
very valid yeah human beings they need
support like even our messenger
sallallahu lucidum may the peace and
blessings of allah be upon him in his
mission Allah supported him Allah would
give him words of encouragement and they
would come to cut the console him when
he was on this impossible task of
dealing with people that are constantly
accusing him of all sorts of things
here what i want to share with you as
far as your journey the guidance in my
analysis of if what you're saying is
true of you your heart has already
accepted islam yes your heart has
already become muslim the idea now is
how does it come from the heart onto the
tongue and it becomes a manifest reality
for all the see the thing of it is the
underlying issue here even before we
talk about salvation is the idea of
guidance this person you're seeking
guidance you're you're looking for that
truth and you've stumbled by a las will
you've fallen right on to Islam now the
thing is the greatest treasure you can
have in this life is guidance that's the
greatest treasure you can have it
doesn't matter if you're wealthy or
young or old or sick or poor or you know
homeless or in this country or that
country none of that matters in the end
if you have one treasure you have
everything you need and that treasure is
guidance now guidance itself it's not
cheap you can't own it even I and you
were Muslims we don't claim to own it we
claim to ask Allah for it every day yeah
right we make one guided decision we
enter into Islam that's one guided
decision that doesn't mean regarded the
rest of our life it means now we are in
a better position to ask for guidance
right but when you make that decision
when you make that guided decision to
enter Islam understand this because it's
so powerful and so pricey and so
precious you have to pay for it it
doesn't come cheap so when people accept
this guidance in order for them to
appreciate how valuable this is Allah
tests them sometimes the tests are
through family like what you fear
sometimes the tests are through society
sometimes the tests or through friends
sometimes the tests are through money
what ends up happening I just laid out
for you before you take this decision
life is good family likes you careers
going well you have a good old time with
your friends on the weekends life is
just relaxed it's just sailing by yeah
you make this one little decision and
all of a sudden you become the object of
criticize
them and really cool of your family
everybody starts looking at your funny
your friends don't want to hang out with
you anymore everybody's trying to pick a
fight and debate with you it seems like
your whole world just turned around by
one decision and this is a very scary
even to think how my life is going to
change is a very scary thought but the
thing is if you can go through this test
with courage because coming to the truth
you know it requires two things that
requires deep thinking that you've
already done but it requires another
step and that's courage you need courage
if you have the truth but you don't have
courage you won't stand up for the truth
and that's as good as standing up for
falsehood so when you stand up for that
truth and you start facing trials loss
of friendship financial difficulty
family difficulty pressure from society
you know really cool from all sides it
is at that point that that's the hardest
part of this journey if you can hold on
at that point then you've sort of proven
to yourself and to your Lord what this
is worth to you you ask your Lord to let
you through this storm and after you go
through the storm you get the greatest
gift Allah says about this da asaba men
will see but in a lobby amila woman
you've been built yet decal bahu now
listen to this he says there is no
calamity that will fall upon you except
by a las permission and whoever remains
whoever continues to believe in Allah
Allah will guide his heart Allah will
guide his heart meaning you have to face
this calamity but in the end the gift of
it is your heart is at peace it's fine
it finally has guidance it finally has
the right path and it's at that point
where Allah speaks about another thing
and this is very important this is the
word I mean I've laid out the trial part
for you well here's the whole part Allah
says Romania tatenda yeshayahu Mulligan
was why I was oklahoman hateful I have
to say what that means is whoever truly
fears Allah who ever truly is truly
cautious of Allah and acts as though
they are cautious of their Lord Allah
will make a way out for them whatever
problems you're having there's a
guarantee from Allah he will pull you
out of those problems and then on top of
that where your Zuko human
he left us if he will provide that
person from where they couldn't have
even imagined so two things happen your
part you have to fear Allah you have to
be cautious of Allah you have to make
your decisions based on your
relationship with your Lord keeping in
mind the axiom in the Quran Felicia who
mock Sony don't fear the people don't
fear them fear me Allah is giving you
that that that scale basically you weigh
on the one hand do you fear me or do you
fear the people so so tell us brother I
could just continue just listening and
and not interrupting but we got a lot of
points to cover yeah we got so little
time yes tell us brother for the person
because this is one individual who seems
to be very sincere and he's about to
come out and get past you know what his
parents are going to say in his society
he it looks like he's brave enough to
come forward there's a lot of people
that even though they know this doesn't
make sense they know this Trinity and
all the stuff we're not trying to offend
nobody we're trying to have you think
and there's a lot of people out there
who are like you know what I'm going
through the same thing so they just just
you know they're still rush it off and
whatnot let's talk about because i think
if we help them to see how by using
their brain they can see how islam is so
rational and pure it's the natural way
but this these man-made ideologies
philosophies these are things that we
should stand and criticize and be like
hold on this is not from the crater tell
us why do you think so many people fall
to feeling that and is it possible that
somebody can die for your sins this
whole idea that somebody is going to pay
the price and now i can just do whatever
i want or whatever the case talk to us
I've had a number of conversations with
people of Christian faith yeah from
various denominations and the recurring
theme of Jesus dying for the sins of
those who believe in him since for
Humanity and once we accept him we're in
if and when I asked them well what about
your crimes what about okay so i asked
flat out okay anybody who accepts Jesus
will go to heaven you say yes I said
okay well what if a terrorist accepts
Jesus
one was killed hundreds of people
innocent people if he accepts Jesus he's
going to just go to heaven just like
that yes he doesn't have I mean and they
just say flat out yes what what about a
rapist what about a murderer what about
you know these these criminals what
about them yeah all they have to do is
they they believe in Jesus and they're
good to go and even if they were
believers before they messed up they can
come back to jesus and they're saved
again right the idea behind it which
seems to be contradictory is on the one
hand the Christian says that the human
being is born in sin yeah he's born and
said on the other hand when you talk to
Christians about theology you say well
if we're born in Santa more prone to sin
and you're telling me I'm forgiven
already oh my god aren't I going to send
more because you've given the open
license and I'm fido saying I'll say hey
I was born that way yeah right they'll
say no people are good if once they have
faith they're good I was like what you
said they're born in sin and now on top
of that you've given them a
justification for that said you've
opened the doors for them and so you
find the real I mean you could speak in
theory and say theoretically speaking
yeah Christians are supposed to be good
and you know a good number of them are
but the vast majority of society that
claims Christianity does horrendous
things with a crucifix hanging from the
chest or you know calling on Jesus see
here and there but then also you know
engaged in foul source of language right
yeah yes there are bad Muslims too there
are bad Jews to end their good juice in
there good muslims etc etc but the
mentality that it's produced is one of
being able to get away with our behavior
and what this is a psychology of share
basically what this is is a person
doesn't want to take responsibility for
their own actions yeah so they figure
you know it's just like kind of like at
work if you have your your manager is a
good friend of yours and then the boss
is mad at you you know what you do you
tell the manager ii talk to him for me
yeah i don't want to deal with him and
the managers kind of got your back even
if you come in late to work or you mess
up or whatever he's got he's got your
back that's the idea right you don't
want to deal with the actual person so
here we have violations against God the
Lord of the Worlds the entire psychology
is what God loves Jesus so much if Jesus
puts in a good word we'll be all right
I'm all good
so I actually don't have to please God I
can continue to spit on the the the
injunctions of God what He commands me
to do I could kick them to the curb and
if I am getting in trouble I'll just get
Jesus to put in a good word for me and
I'm okay you got the JC gold card your
little basically so now and this is
actually not just limited to
Christianity any religion that sets up
an intermediary between yourself and god
does this that intermediary is there
because it's your your pass into heaven
without you taking responsibility
without you having to stand up for
yourself we all want the easy way
exactly and the other thing this does
and this is very important one of the
very important side effects of Jesus
being the means to save yourself or any
other partner any other intermediary is
that you actually don't expect God to
forgive you you don't expect mercy from
God you expected from that God is
merciful to him so he'll show you mercy
but God himself yeah he'll destroy you
destroy even the Christian believes he's
destroyed nations in the past so they've
actually on the side kind of even though
they believe the Trinity or this is all
one God but to them God is more
punishment and Jesus has more
forgiveness yeah and they've kind of
separated the two to the Muslim this is
contradiction if God is all
knowledgeable and he's the creator of
all things and he's the absolutely
merciful no one can be more merciful
than the one who created everything
Elevens of the earth so we expect mercy
from him but tell me now the person says
you know what you just said that God
Almighty is all knowledgeable he knows
all but the argument here is that God
out of his love he wanted to come down
to experience what it is to be a man so
he can relate to you better to me is
telling me that God's not all
knowledgeable feels exactly so talk to
us about this dis how do you refute this
okay he loves you so he came down to die
for your sins so the idea of there are a
few problems here it's love first of all
yeah it is love where was the love since
Adam number one number two if this was
such a critical I mean this is if this
is the heart of the message of salvation
why were people of generations and
generations and generations being told
to worship one God asked that God for
forgiveness ask him for for salvation
seek His mercy no one else's and
ridiculed any religion who set up a son
a daughter another deity besides God
were put aside as blasphemy right then
it's a matter of inconsistency we're
actually breaking apart from that now
the other thing about love God Allah
Allah one of the last name is aloof
which actually means the compassionate
also means the one who knows what you're
going through so actually part of God
being absolutely powerful and absolutely
knowledgeable is actually he knows
exactly what we are going through he
doesn't have to come down to the level
of his creation to experience because he
created that experience it is putting a
limitation on God himself but the
fundamental argument again if God is
just mercy which is again the the
punchline and a lot of this rhetoric has
got his mercy goddess mercy goddess
mercy yeah the thing of it is if God is
all mercy then there should be no
concept of punishment at all there is no
punishment because he's all mercy so
there has to be consequence now they've
set up the consequences once once you
accept Jesus then that's it now you've
entered the mercy but the rational idea
the rational explanation is you do your
best to obey your Lord you will fall
short nobody's perfect all of us make
mistakes you do your best and then
expect from God's mercy that's the
balance if you take advantage of God's
mercy and say I'm going to disobey God
I'm not going to listen to his
Commandments all of that is unnecessary
for me in the end he'll be merciful
anyway then you are actually trying to
take advantage of God and he's all
knowledgeable about that too if I could
sort that out God can sort that out much
better than I can right he could see
right through that that that flawed line
of reasoning so if you're confident
enough that you can stand in front of
your Lord on the Day of Resurrection and
argue with him about how he's supposed
to show you mercy even though you kicked
his Commandments to the curb then go
ahead that's not a very smart plan
rather we need to be
missive before our Lord the other thing
notice and this is something I've talked
to Christians at length about if you
look at the life of Jesus in the Bible
yeah it is one of worship submissiveness
subserve it he's observing the law of
kosher he's praying he's engaged in acts
of worship kind of like what we do
exactly like he's falling on his face
and praying like as a christian asked me
at the airport why do you play like that
I was like Jesus yeah it's his legacy
we're just part of that same legacy it
was before him and it's after him right
Allah speaks about the people of the
book you have wounded of colonies which
I that they fell on their faces praying
did they fell on their faces so I mean
such that is actually an indication of
the continued the continuation of that
legacy right but but from a theological
point of view again you could argue why
it doesn't make sense but it's probably
better to understand why is it that
people set it up this way to begin with
it is because of that guilty conscience
and not wanting to take responsibility
of what for one's actions to set up that
intermediary so Allah in Aramaic the
language that Jesus spoke because he
didn't speak English it is say God he
would say aloha this is very close to
Allah this is a law he called on Allah
Allah does he need a sacrifice a blood
sacrifice some people will say that
before they used to sacrifice animals
have you heard this argument yes so tell
us now does he need this kind of blood
when we make a mistake is he merciful
where he can just forgive us talk a
little bit about this ok the what we
oughta God first of all understand and
this is very beautiful in the Quran when
Allah speaks about the believer doing
good deeds he uses certain very
interesting terminology he says for
example who will get give God a good
loan Mandela theologically hasanah
obviously when you ask for a loan you're
in need why is God asking for a loan
this is actually a means of humbling the
slave how you we know God is the owner
of all wealth the wealth in my pocket
doesn't belong to me belongs to the Lord
of the Worlds he put it there to begin
with right and he's asking me for a loan
I'll give you a parallel even though for
Allah there there are no parallels but
for this scenario I'm giving you a
parallel your mother who you love to
death comes and asks you for money can I
borrow five dollars I don't have enough
money to buy milk a sincere son would be
moved to tears that his mother had to
come to him and ask for money why did it
come to this point and she's asking to
borrow it as though i expect her to pay
me back right what kind of foul son am i
that my mother would not have that
expectation from me when God asks the
believers for a loan he's reminding them
you've become so greedy you've become so
clinch e to the world that you have that
you I have to put it in a way that will
put you to shame yeah yeah yeah you want
to get it back right now so this is this
is one thing now another thing he puts
in the Quran he another statement he
makes is should I tell you of a deal a
business transaction people love
business transactions right so a lot
appeals to human in started talking to
us through the verbatim word of God the
Quran the rola de luca marletta java
should i tell you over trade that will
save you from a torture from from
tremendous punishment that you believe
in Allah and His Messenger and that you
struggle in the path of Allah with your
money and yourself your money is not
going to save you alone and yourself
alone you have to put both in you got to
spend in the path of Allah you gotta
struggle in the path of a line you have
to believe in Allah and His Messenger
you take this path and he will forgive
you and he will shower as mercy upon you
he'll enter you into paradise but the
idea is in the end well la hora con un
honey this is very important this is the
bottom line when I say business when I
say loan you would think oh the person
on the other end is getting something
out of this one of allah's names in
islamic theology is al honey I lakhani
which means the one who is free of need
the one who is free of need another one
of his most beautiful names a summit
which means the one who everyone depends
on and the one who depends on no one ok
so now whether we sacrifice for Allah
which people did in the past before well
we sacrifice that who did we sacrifice
it for our intention was to please Allah
but who did that sacrifice benefit
there's a benefit of life we sacrificed
when we praise Him does it benefit us no
benefit damn benefit him know it
benefits us when we pray to him it
doesn't benefit him it doesn't increase
his kingdom in any it doesn't decrease
it any because he already owns all
kingdom these are acts of worship and
ritual for ourselves they are entirely
for ourselves so the idea of why does
God want me to do this the simple answer
for yourself for yourself Allah says in
Acts anthem I send only unfussy come if
you excel meaning excelled in good deeds
you've only done sort of better yourself
to benefit yourself woman jihad afar in
de- jah he do DFC whoever struggles puts
the effort the time the sacrifice and
has only done so for his own sake you
talk about sacrifice and putting in
striving for what what are we striving
for ah so here's the thing the punchline
all human beings and this is something
that really hit hard when I studied it
all human beings desire some things
consciously or subconsciously regardless
of religion people generally tend to
love for example the idea of home
ownership I want to place of my own I
want to decorate it the way I like it
right I want I you know I want a
beautiful scenery when I look outside
mass the neighborhood should be nice
nice lawn waterfront property even if
you don't afford a waterfront property
when you see a mansion on the water you
pull over the car and you stare for a
little while you say wow you know it's
it's human nature to want that and it's
it regardless of religion regardless of
language regardless of culture Allah is
basically giving us a deal in this world
take a life of struggle take it to the
end of your life he will he will work
with you in that struggle he'll help you
out across along the way and facilitate
it for you but if you are willing to
commit to that struggle he's got a home
for you that is eternal and it'll be the
way you want it to be you know there's
no such thing as you know that dream of
homeownership we call the American dream
you know in our society that dream turns
into a nightmare pretty fast you buy the
whole that there's maintenance then
there's property tax and there's
foreclosure then there's this then
there's that all of that remove just
that dream just the house just the
residence no worries no concerns know
you know eternal life that's this
but worse this is what we're struggling
to a struggling to be God conscience and
everything we do to be the best human
beings that we can do the motivation
there couldn't be a better motivation
yeah a couple more points we got two
minutes you mentioned Jesus and tell us
what do we believe about Jesus Jesus
Lisa as long as he's pronounced in
Arabic his name we believe that he is
not the Son of God that he is one of the
greatest messengers ever to have been
sent aslam counts five of them noah nor
Abraham Moses Jesus and Mohammed so I
solemn these are the five Great elitism
the messengers of great results so he's
counted among one of them we believe
that he was born a miraculous birth by
the Virgin Mary we believe that he does
not have a father he does not have a
father and we also believe that he's
coming back that he will come back and
and this might sound shocking to some of
you we believe that he's going to come
back and break the cross we believe that
he was never crucified that he was
actually lifted that Allah had elevated
him to the to the heavens and he's still
alive in his human form not in a godly
form in human form and he will come back
as a messenger and slave of God to
dispel the misconceptions that had been
spread about him so all the the
prophecies of the return of Jesus that
are in the Judeo or the return of a
messiah and the judeo-christian and the
return of Jesus specifically in the
Christian tradition we have a parallel
to that we do believe he's coming back
what we believe he's coming back as a
slave of Allah as he was first and to
dispel all the misconceptions that were
spread about him and the way that's
captured in a very small phrase Jesus
will come back to break the cross he
will come and destroy the cross he will
he will clarify to the people what the
reality of Jesus himself was he will
live a normal life and then live a
normal death like any other human being
the miraculous elements of Jesus his
miraculous birth that he spoke as a baby
that by a las permission he was able to
take a clay bird and blow it at it and
bring it to life this is what Muslims
believe to that he was able to cure the
blind by a las permission that he was
able to cure the leper by a las
permission to Christ he was the Messiah
he was he was that he was the one that
was appointed by Allah and Allah calls a
messiah masse no Miriam
that he was born of a virgin mother and
that he will return okay just really
quick just hit this point we gotta go
their flagging us were almost out of
time if someone makes a mistake what
does he do if he makes us in we're weak
okay a simple answer yeah yeah I body
and latinas la fois de nfo see him all
my slaves that have wronged themselves
that have transgressed against their own
selves na dakla to nourish Matilda don't
you dare lose hope in the mercy of Allah
in the la jolla foto de lobo jamia no
doubt Allah will forgive the sins all of
them what you have to do what is the
path to forgiveness number one sincerely
repenting being ashamed of what you did
number two promising Allah you won't do
it again a commitment not to go back to
that sin repentance and number three
changing your behavior immediately you
change your behavior you don't repent
for a sin go back to it next week then
repent again and go back next week
because Allah says well um you sell
Rafael you wanna be on da moon they
didn't insist upon what they did while
knowing what they were doing so you
can't insist upon yours and you have to
you have to firmly commit to let go of
that sin and if you're sincere Allah
will help you in walking away from that
sin for life he's the most merciful the
most gracious he's the crater that
heavens and earth he's ready to forgive
returning we just have to be ready to
ask that's it thank you for being with
us to get walking like I'm walking and
to our brother Justin who sent us this
email I hope you really got to benefit
for the show we did it for you and all
those other people who are out there who
are confused they might have been
brought up in a family of people who had
such beliefs and we're not trying to
step on nobody's toes I hurt nobody's
feeling we're trying to encourage you to
use those god-given gifts just like our
brother Justin did and come out and do
one simple thing ask the giver of
guidance God Almighty Himself alone to
guide you he's the only one that can
forgive you he is the one the one god to
whom there is no co-equal or comparable
he has no beginning no end no equal no
peer no partner no father no mother no
wife no child no son no darling no human
body no form no color
no race no nationality this is the one
god that we're talking about the one guy
that is there to guide you he is the one
self-sufficient master who begets not
nor was he begotten to whom there is no
co-equal or comparable who has no wife
and has no child he is the merciful God
and he's ready to forgive you for all
your sins he's ready to guide you that's
all you got to do his ass you take that
first step then and acknowledge that he
is the only one worthy of worship
there's none like him and Muhammad is
the last and final messenger just like
Jesus Moses Abraham Noah they were all
messages of God delivering the same
message to worship one God alone without
any co-equal co-partner nobody has any
kind of attributes like God God is
unique there's nobody like God he's the
only one that I want to submit to and
pray to that's the god so when you do
that you become a Muslim and God gives
you paradise it's a guarantee so that's
it a very simple formula live in life
according to how God wants you to live
striving your best to be the best human
being you can be we hope you got to
benefit and we hope that you take that
necessary step you don't know if you're
going to live till tomorrow
so you got to find that urgency to do
the right thing right now each other a
shadow la la la la la la why I shouldn't
wash had a nman anna muhammadan no hana
rasool allah rasulullah and then live
for God doing every day what God wants
you to do and that's that first that we
just talked about ok we'll see you next
time that's it that's all the time we
have until then we'll see you next time
here on the dent show every week I said
I'm alaikum peace be unto you
this means i have what man of majem
Allah Allah Allah in love once I you
know I you let a hood was in a tomb
boom lihue Marcus mi what you're not
giving up mother lady ish power the womb
in love evening yeah la mama vaina ad
him one a huntha home while i wish she
would i be shamed me neither me love me
ma sha
uh what's your cool to see you lose some
i wanti 10 while i order who hit boom
our hua lie to you lolly it's cold it's
leigh everybody sleeping I arise and ask
a lot of thinking me Omar you see all
are you know all the sins I do I turn to
you to figure my sin tomorrow I'm the
scene for slave you don't my love alone
I'm the one runs away oh the guy me
you
Asha Asha de ella ella ella ella ella no
y la la why shouldn't wash had a
feminine anna muhammadan no hana rasool
allah rasulullah