alhamdulillah welcome to another episode
of the dean show thank you for being
with us today here we are continuing
talking about with our special guest I
said earlier super special guests
because we get a lot of special guests
and this is my close friend sh YF Estus
who is a former Christian preacher who
accepted Islam while trying to convert a
Muslim to Christianity his father
accepted Islam along with many he runs
many different programs websites trying
to educate the non-muslims on Islam
we're going to bring them out we're
going to continue talking about the
first man Adam we're going to let you
know a little bit about his life what he
was calling to what he lived and
hopefully everybody can benefit from
part two of Adam the first man the
prophet with Shake Yousef Estes will be
right back on the dean
show there's only one God and muham is
his messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one
and Jesus his
Messer I don't know why I did that maybe
maybe it's just to break the iceam
alaykum how are you alhamdulillah thank
you it's nice to be back again thank you
for being with us that elevator ride
coming all the way up here give you nose
bleeded as high up as this place is it's
really I I'm still you know remember in
the old days when you started in that
little small Studio over on the other
side of town alhamdulillah we said some
Arabic words and I always take a minute
because we have a lot of non-muslims who
are our brothers in humanity who are
trying to get them to be our brothers in
faith now they heard
aamayum what does that
mean
Salam is the exact same word as shalom
shalom from the Jewish this is peace mhm
the peace that uh the Tranquility the
the ease inside of your heart this is
what is talking about peace Islam is
islamis is
peace we're going to be talking about
Islam Muslims and usually before the
alarm goes off because if somebody says
some Arabic words you know we have this
alarm going off because we don't want
people to get confused so you think that
maybe right now we should take a second
and Define some of of the words that
we're going to be using well certainly
one of the mistakes that Muslims have
themselves is to give a wrong English
definition to a word then later down the
road it causes a problem when you're
trying to understand something I take
for instance the word Islam the word
Islam comes from the same root is the
word Salam but they don't mean the same
thing because you say Salam Alum peace
be unto you this is mentioned in the
Bible in the New Testament that Jesus
went upon uh greeted his his companions
when entered in upon them and he said
them peace be unto you he didn't say hey
what's up guys probably
not at least not in that dialogue not in
that context
so we find that Shalom or Salam is a
nice greeting to to give people but when
you say Islam you're talking about
something much bigger more profound and
complex because there's no word in
English equal to it there's no two words
it's not even a group of words because
of the it's a composite in English there
isn't anything like
this there are five words that if you
take one of them out it's not right
anymore it isn't the right thing first
there's surrender then there is
submission surrender is to give up but
submission is to agree to some terms
third is obedience that you live up to
what you said fourth is sincerity now
the sincerity of Islam proves that it
cannot be forced on anyone because you
can never force people to be sincere mhm
you could force them to be a hyp
hypocrite that's easy and some people
don't even need to be forced to be a
hypocrite but sincerity is something
that has to come from themselves so
that's a part of the word the last and
final of the composite word here is
peace Salam is in here but this piece is
a conditional peace because a person has
to already have surrendered to God they
have to have already submitted to his
terms obeyed his Commandments done so
with full and complete um dedication to
it their intention is solely for him a
purity as it were of this surrender and
giving over to the Lord then finally to
be at peace with the result if you said
God I want whatever you want for me
that's what I want today so it rains and
you said well that is what I wanted so
now I'm not happy no no you said you be
at peace with it yeah so if you said
well God I'll take whatever you give me
and I need a new car well you wind up
getting an old van and you said well I
want a hot looking car well no this is
what you said I want in my life the best
for me according to you God but then you
don't get the the wife or the husband
that you thought you were going to get
and it's a hard life and maybe there's
abuse in your family and you hate that
but and we should hate abuse obviously
but that's not the point what I'm saying
is God gives you something and you are
at peace with what he gave you doesn't
mean you have to accept what other
people are doing to you but you accept
the whatever God gives you especially in
health issues wealth issues things like
that that beyond your control someone
gets cancer someone has a liver disease
someone has a brain tumor any of these
things and if they got mad and started
get cursing God for that or saying there
is no God or otherwise that that
wouldn't have happened no then they've
missed the whole point a lot of people
become atheists when they begin to think
that if there was a God then these
things these bad things wouldn't happen
well that's not
true these people are not accepting that
there's a God and using that as an
excuse but in reality there still is God
and he's the one causes things to happen
but it's a test for you CU this is not
the ultimate life for you yeah the
ultimate life Paradise is the ultimate
life and you get there by his Mercy his
grace that he bestows on people and you
don't get that if you're out you're
cursing him so surrender submission
obedience sincerity all in peace and
this is summed up with one word Islam
yeah you see why people don't try to
translate it wow this is deep Muslim how
does that fit in the question okay well
as you know Muslim is coming from the
word Islam itself in Arabic you don't
use an eer suffix at the end of the word
like like Walker and talker thinker
stinker you don't do do that you use a
prefix of mu the Adan the call of the
prayer Adan if somebody's doing that
he's a
mu and if somebody's traveling which is
suffer yes he's a muser if somebody's
praying which is Su he's a m mhm so you
put moo in front of Islam and you say mu
Islam however because that's not the
verb it's Muslim because it comes from
ASL so you say Muslim wow that is just
very deep it's simple and this is
something now we're getting into our
topic the first man we were talking in
part one about Adam did he do surrender
submission sincerity all these things
which is is if he didn't then then uh he
would not have fulfilled his purpose and
for sure the first man has to fulfill
the purpose yeah it wouldn't it wouldn't
work in the plan of almighty God if the
very first thing he made was a bummer it
has to be right yes so we look to Adam
as being the first and absolute he was
Perfection because otherwise it also
wouldn't fit the
verse which we mentioned in the last
program for those of you weren't with us
then shame on you for not being with us
but
but this means more or less that Allah
said I have verily created my best of
all creation which is now a human being
so by saying that Allah has said that
that means Adam has to be the best of
the best of the best at least in the
beginning because uh he is the first one
yeah and he had done a mistake which was
he ate the fruit and that he was
commanded not to eat he and his wife his
wife as we know was created from his own
rib bone and the two of them together
were in Paradise they could have
anything they wanted but then were
ordered don't eat from this one tree it
was a test only yes nothing else and
this was the only sin mentioned about
Adam and Eve they did not obey they ate
the fruit that they were told not to eat
the devil on the other hand who existed
before them was not a human nor was he
an angel he was from the Gin the Jin
were the first ones to have free will or
free choice yes and they existed before
Adam now this one particular Jin had
been raised up to this very high level
to pray along with the angels but when
the command came to bow down because of
the creation of Adam the Angels bow down
but he didn't now the way this is
mentioned in the Quran the very first
time talking about this you'll find it
if you'd like to look it up in the Quran
in Chapter 2 you can look at verse uh I
think it's 31 right in that area because
Allah orders the the prostration here of
everybody bowed down because of the
creation of Adam
and it says that they all bowed down it
says all the Angels bowed down except El
mhm that's his name the devil's name not
Lucifer it's
El the way that a lot of people try to
understand the English translation is to
say well he must be an angel mhm same
mistake that people have made for
centuries yeah to say he's an angel
because of the the wording of the verse
here but if you know Arabic that's not
what it says because it would have said
in Arabic that they all bowed down
ilu okay yeah but it doesn't say that it
says
Ila the O at the end of it means that
he's from that group The a means he's
from something else yes so it would be
like saying every you know all of the
mechanics on the job quit
except uh Fred yeah okay except Fred so
you would think okay then he must have
been one of the mechanics but in Arabic
when you say it it would be like all of
the mechanics quit walked off the job
you know except for this guy Fred who is
not really one of the mechanics anyway
uhhuh but just the difference of U and a
gives that clue in the Arabic language
mhm so we were talking about how Allah
the Creator the heavens and the Earth he
put them in the garden said stay away
from the tree the devil came tempted
them and they fell for his trick yeah
and again we should always mention this
that Islam is not blaming the woman for
what the man did yeah Adam ate the fruit
he sinned Eve ate the fruit she sinned
both of them had sinned the devil had
refused to obey God by not bow bowing
down He was ordered to do something
didn't do it they were ordered don't do
something they did do it so we learn
from this that there are commands that
tell you do something and commands that
say don't do something you know honor
your mother and your father a
commandment in the Bible and in the
Quran this is something to
do don't eat pork this is something
clearly don't do so if you eat the pork
this would be a sin and if you didn't
honor the mother and father this would
be sin so they did it they committed sin
both of them all
and all repented except for El the devil
still has to this day not repented now
there's a great lesson that can be
learned from this can't there what did
he say to our great great father to have
him slip up what was he promising him
did he make some some kind of well the
Bible has a story and then there are
some other Traditions that mentioned
that he was promised that he would have
eternal life
which I don't know if that's exactly all
he was promised or if it was more than
that but that's why it's often referred
to as the tree of life and it said that
whoever ate from it would live forever
but this obviously didn't work CU Adam
died anyway yeah and obviously the
devil's a liar whatever he promised him
it wasn't true but he magnified that sin
because it's not the sin that is the big
problem yeah because human sin mhm it
wouldn't matter if you said let's take
alcohol as an example or drugs in yours
in my estimation the drugs would be
worse cuz we know they does such
permanent damage but the alcohol might
be worse CU you kill more people with a
car than you do when you're sitting
there doing whatever drug addicts do
yeah I guess they just sit around and go
stupid I don't know yeah I don't want to
knowuh but at the same
time the problem isn't whether or not
somebody killed a person which is
horrible it's like you killed the whole
world or if they just refuse to bow down
the problem comes in when they won't
repent because if they know there's God
and they refuse to repent to him this is
the thing which will ultimately make it
so they will never enter the paradise so
the thing is that acknowledging that you
have a lord like Adam did and repenting
if you do fall into era like he did and
let's jump to another Prophet if you
don't mind I kind of go backward and
forward okay another Prophet is the
prophet Jonah yes now he has his own
book in the Old Testament and the qurani
also has his own book or chapter or
Surah called Unice chapter 10 of the
Quran if you'd like to read it it's very
interesting but you're going to find a
lot more details there than you're going
to find in the Bible depending on which
version of the Bible you have but
there's only one version of Quran and
it's very clear that that he was sent as
a prophet yes now we talked about what a
prophet is a prophet is someone who is
special now if he comes with scripture
then he becomes super special yeah okay
and by the way I'm not special and I'm
not super special I'm just a person I
don't mind you saying these things when
you introduce but but in reality it's
it's not a good thing to try to make
some person be better than somebody else
cuz they're really not yeah but Jonah or
Unice is there is called an Arabic
language
was sent by Allah meaning that he was
from those people but he was inspired by
Allah this is what we meant by sent we
don't mean that he was mailed to him in
a letter or something like that but he
was from them but his message to them
was to worship God alone without any
Partners this is the message that came
with all the
prophets now these people of neveh this
is by the way in Iraq yeah they did not
listen they refused nobody accepted his
message so he left now when he's out in
the water he went out in the sea the
storm came up and as a result the people
on the ship uh tried to figure out what
was the bad luck that was happening to
him they determined that it was him they
threw him overboard and he told him to
throw him over anyway MH they threw him
overboard and when
he hit the water this this whale
swallowed him mhm and took him down now
this everybody knows the story of Jon
and the whale but what we find is that
he would have been there until the day
of judgment had he not said this phrase
and this is gone from the Bible the
phrase
is usually translated to English
as the praise is to you
Allah and the glory and the
majesty and verily the wrongdoing here
it is me who has done it to
myself barely I'm from the wrongdoers in
other words he didn't blame God because
he's in the whale anybody could have
done that anybody could say what am I
doing in here what did I do to deserve
this we always find ourselves saying
that every day about this or that what
did I do to deserve this we find human
beings are saying that but in this case
he didn't say that he said the praises
to you God glory and Majesty to you this
wrongdoing the the reason that I'm here
is a result of my own wrong thinking and
my own wrong actions and by saying that
immediately Allah caused the will to
take him and spit him back and he went
back to his people and he was amazed to
find that all of them in his absence had
embraced his belief of only one God and
for that reason Allah preserved that
city until just our decade all these
centuries upon centuries Millennium
after Millennium that place has been
saved there in Iraq and only now since
Mr Bush went over there he went during
his administration as we had a problem
with the name of that place you know
they change it h h how would you go I'm
going to just take a sorry for getting
on the politics no I want to just take
one turn in another Direction real
quickly we talked about the Garden and
we're talking about a whale and now
somebody who's isn't really up into
Islam as much as we are meaning that
they haven't seen all the evidence
and things haven't been presented to
them has it been to us so we know with
conviction full conviction that this is
from the creator of the heavens and
earth all these things are true how
about someone who might be an atheist
somebody who might really be maybe
agnostic and he hear hears this story
about a man swallowing a whale two
people in a garden I think whale
swallowed the man the wh the whale
swallowed the man how would you just if
you want to rationalize a little bit
using some logic how would you get this
person to you know understand this a
little better well our topic overall is
about prophets yeah so the special
people that we used in the first program
the prophets are those who have this
inspiration coming from God to call
people to the worship of one God yeah
now a person may have it inside of thems
naturally but it doesn't mean they're a
prophet M but when they're going around
calling people to it then there are some
little tests that you can do to see if
he is a special Prophet person yes now
first of all is that they would have to
have an exceeding character their their
way about them would have to really be
very moral very upright with no bad you
know bad habits in there like smoking
for instance may or may not be a very
serious problem for an average person
they might say oh it's not that big of a
deal but for a prophet would be
absolutely no way yeah because this
would be a habit that could be mimicked
by the followers and considered to be
good and he couldn't have bad habits
that could be mimicked by his followers
that'd be one another is that his call
would have to be exactly the same call
as the call of Adam now Adam as we
mentioned before too is having a message
of only one God cuz he's the only person
there anyway so he's having a
relationship immediately with one God
there isn't any intercessor whatsoever
cuz it's just him and God now the devil
tries to get in there and mess him up up
but he knows there's only one God he's
worshiping only one God so whatever he
would have told his children would have
been about one God so that's definite
and you'll notice that when you read in
any of the actual scriptures that
whenever Adam or Abraham or Moses are
mentioned there is this talk of one God
one God one God now getting back to Adam
we almost wrapping up with the show tell
us did Adam did he worship Jesus did he
worship a God who had a son did he do
any of these things that many people
across the globe are doing
today absolutely not it would be
impossible for Adam to have as we've
said there weren't any other people it
would be silly yeah but would wouldn't
even be a subject to go to cuz he's the
first person how could he worship
someone who's going to come from his own
loins how is he going to worship or pray
to or ask intercession from one who is
not even born yet he's praying directly
to God now if you want to talk about
Jesus this is a whole subject we could
have a program I think about it but let
us keep in mind that even what they have
today in their English translations of
ancient manuscripts that are without
really a basis because they're not sure
which ones really came from anybody who
knew Jesus I'm talking about the actual
physical manuscripts but even that when
they ask Jesus what's the greatest
commandment and you can read it in
English today it says to know o Israel
the Lord your God is one Lord and you
have to give him your full love from and
all love him or worship him with all
your heart all your mind and all your
strength well this is the same teaching
in Islam that's not different it's not
until other people come along and try to
say well that means this and it means
that for instance somebody could say
well all your mind and all your heart
and all your strength right there those
are three things right mhm so that means
I'm three too then doesn't it you know
so this is it becomes ridiculous to try
to associate Adam with something like
that what else can you tell us before we
run out of time and close about the
first man Adam one of the things I think
it's important for us to remember is
that Adam was human MH and he he was
normal he made a sin and he asked to be
forgiven he asked God to forgive him God
forgave him and there is no sin being
passed on from Adam two generations
afterwards Islam clearly says that's not
true that every child is born
innocent and no matter what the religion
of the parents are If the child dies
they go to paradise they go to paradise
the child is not guilty of what the
parents do it isn't until they're old
enough to make their own decisions and
make their own choices that god holds
them accountable so this idea that now
all of us are cursed because adate the
fruit well there's the emphasis more so
on the women even than the men according
to the Bible anyway the Old Testament is
saying that the women are cursed on
their monthly Cycles that's a curse on
them the pain of Labor and childbirth is
a curse on them and some of the other
things associated with women it's a
curse on them so much so at the same
time that Muhammad peace be upon him was
receiving revelation of Quran from the
angel Gabriel that's in the seventh
century in the
600s that's the same time when the
church the Catholic Church convenes uh
one of their councils to determine
whether or not a woman even has a soul
wow so Islam is coming exactly the time
they're saying something like this and
Islam is saying that not only does a
woman have a soul she has a full status
right alongside a man it's very
beautiful so let's conclude now with
what is the goal
of learning about this first man Adam
and now what can we gain and what can
that person who is seeking from the for
the truth what can he take from this
well first of all is to realize that no
matter what happens in your life no
matter how bad an experience you might
have had realize there is a God he is in
control and that this is not something
you should blame other people for nor
blame yourself but what you should say
is I made a mistake or mistakes
and I want to repent of those
mistakes it's no good to keep wallering
in
self-pity it's no benefit to keep
rehashing the same story over and over
in your mind it's time to move on and
the way to move on is to say this is
where I'm going to draw a line and I'm
not going to go backward off of that
there's my line and I'm moving forward
across that line and that line is to say
up to now I've been making these
mistakes but this is where I stop move
forward and I really acknowledge I made
a lot of bad mistakes I'm very sorry for
whomever I've heard and I wish to repent
and I really am sincere about it I don't
want to make those mistakes again start
with that it's simple ask any
psychiatrist to say the same thing yeah
but this way you're challenge just to
ask the one who created you to forgive
you no human being not the Sun not the
moon I think if you look into some of
the self-help groups and so on for
instance alcoholics annonymous yeah
what's the first thing they do whenever
they introduce themselves hello my name
is Smith and I'm an alcoholic they don't
stand there and say hi my name is Joe
Smith and and it's not my fault I drank
it's you know they made me do it I was
trying to be cool and I accidentally and
then just say it get it over with but
you're now a recovering alcohol have you
said hello my name is Joe Smith and I'm
a sinner who would argue with you but I
don't want to continue in these same
mistakes you still make sins and you
still need to repent every day Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him he used to
tell us how he repents more than 70
times a day and another Hadith he said
more than a 100 times a day he's
repenting himself and he's the best of
the best we'll call him a super special
mhm huh this the last and final
messenger yeah but that he's not the
only super special mhm all the prophets
they turn to God and repent but all of
them all the prophets yeah only turned
to one God they would go back in front
of him and bow down and ask for his
forgiveness and these are the people
that we should
emulate the first and foremost thing is
to know which prophet came last M so you
know who to emulate and that would be
the last and final messenger said to
mankind the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him well for us it is yes but it
wouldn't have been a th 2,000 years ago
it would have been Jesus taking before
we close that wonderful story you think
now we can benefit by doing what the
first man did and repenting like you
said and calling on the Creator alone
and not his Creation in all acts of
worship if a person really clears out
their heart clears out their mind and
they say you know what I want to repent
and I want to be guided by God and I'm
really really sincere I'm going to do my
best if he'll show me any sign I'm I'm
ready to go yeah he'll be surprised that
what'll happen in his life that's quite
simple thank you for being with us again
on the dean show and by the way I have a
website you can take share with the
people yeah let the youth can check this
out it's called watch islam.com yes
watch islam.com you'll find our TV shows
there but on the left side there's a
drop- down menu go all the way it says
list all then go to the bottom of that
page and you'll find about 16 episodes
of the stories of the prophets that's
watch islam.com
exactly and you can see more of the
stories of all the prophets from Adam to
the last and final messenger the Prophet
Muhammad please be upon him and like to
thank you for being with us again here
on the dean show where we're here every
week trying to help you understand Islam
and Muslims and we'll see you next time
God willing inshallah until then assalam
alaikum peace be unto you
sh
come and see what everyone's talking
about who if you find one contradiction
it can't be from
God but the rational idea the rational
explanation is you do your best give up
worshiping God as one I will never give
up spreading this message I hope that
you take that NE 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 the reality of Life usually doesn't
sink in until tragedy
comes you get a few bad people the media
grabs a hold of that and Spins it the
way they want
to if you say that you do not believe in
Jesus you have stepped outside of Islam
you cannot be a Muslim is tended our
faith
to it's cold it's
lame everybody
sleeping I
arise and ask a lot of forgive
me oh Allah you
see oh Allah you know
all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my sins of
my
heart I'm your sinful
slave you're my love
Lord I'm the one who runs
away oh guide be