my dear brothers may Allah bless you and
reward you for coming today we are going
to be talking about how to give dawa the
first thing I want to talk about is your
mindset you have to understand that if
people don't smile at you you smile at
them if people don't accept you you
accept them right right if people reject
you you accept them did I say that
already before it doesn't matter
repetition is good it's emphasis Quran
repeats itself for good reasons so let's
repeat as well so if people don't treat
you nicely you treat them nicely I want
you to enroll them in your behavior that
you become the state of being the state
of character that you want others to
adopt if you don't do that you're not
going to have that reflection because
human beings are like mirrors of each
other so if for example he doesn't look
very Smiley at the moment right but if I
smile he's going to smile for example
try not smiling
now do you see I'm smiling so you're
enrolling people in your behavior be
like the prophet sallallah wasam that he
would smile in the face of adversity
okay and that's what you have to keep
keep in mind so that's the state of mind
I want you to be in so you really enroll
people in your behavior two pieces of
advice I want you to really understand
number one speak to people as if you're
speaking to your own mother and speak to
them as if they're better than you
because you don't know the end
and if you have that state of humility
I'm telling you you'll be able to
connect with people in ways that you've
never connected before and don't
pre-frame people you may see people that
don't look like you that don't act like
you that are very different they don't
even speak like you but don't use that
limited experience of you know I saw
someone who looked just like that last
week and he was really bad to me so
therefore this guy is going to be bad to
me too don't be like this be like the
Quran when it teaches us inah Bak vers
when Allah says he's going to send down
Adam and the angels say what are you
going to do you're going to send someone
down that's going to create Bloodshed
and Allah says what I know that which
you do not know meaning that Allah has
the totality of knowledge as IB K says
we have just the particular Allah has
the picture we have the pixel so don't
use your limited experiences and
superimpose on anybody else so if you
see someone different engage with them
as they deserve to be engaged with not
based on your pre framing your limited
experiences and ideas make sense
that's the mindset people so in your da
Brothers you're going to be engaging
with our fellow human beings and
humanity and they're going to pose some
difficult questions hey why do you have
a beard even goats have beards what's so
special about that hey what's wrong with
you why you headbutting the floor five
times a day how come your wife covers
her
face what's the matter with you why are
you mumbling to yourself praying yeah so
the point is you're going to have these
questions not like this because human
beings generally speaking are very
decent they're inquisitive they want to
know but I'm just highlighting the point
that they're going to be posing these
questions and they're going to be
difficult so don't just start saying
well you know I have a beard because it
means I'm wise or I have a beard because
you
know my Prophet had a beard and he was
wise I have a beard because it's
natural or just don't turn the tables
and just return the question and say why
don't you have a beard right or my wife
covers her face because it's modesty and
then the lady would say to you you're
trying to say I'm not modest by not
covering my face so don't end up having
difficult questions and uncomfortable
debates but rather use all the questions
to link
toed the Oneness of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
because the Oneness of Allah the
existence of Allah the fact that he
deserves to be woried the fact that the
Quran is from Allah subhanahu waala the
fact that the prophet S.I wasam is the
final Prophet this is the basis of H and
whatever comes from H is H whatever
comes from truth is truth so don't give
them the kind of fruits if you like they
may not find them
tasty give them the roots and once they
understand that they're grounded and
they
deep and the
unshakable right then they'll know that
this fruit is truly good for you so from
that perspective I want you to
understand that we have
to understand people in the flowing way
say you have glasses you all have
glasses right including you and they're
tinted pink and my glasses are tinted
green when I say look at that building
it's so green and nice what are you
going to say it's really pink it's
really pink you know it's just pink now
we you can have a debate on this it's
green it's pink it's green it's pink
would end up nowhere so what do we have
to do to connect with one another
exchange glasses or take our glasses off
what we want to do is give them our
glasses which ised this is how we see
the world through the Wess of Allah so
don't just say oh look that building is
green just give them the tools the
framework the world view the
truth in which you use to see your life
and your existence right right so don't
end up in uncomfortable questions does
this make sense good so how do we take
these uncomfortable questions and Link
them toed this is something called
initiation and let me just show you what
initiation is so say the brother ask me
a question how comes your wife she
covers her head what's wrong with her
and I be like that's a very interesting
question you know before I turned Muslim
I had exactly the same question and I
realized that in order to understand the
answer I have to understand the concept
of Islam do you have a few minutes for
me to explain this to you yes and then
you get agreement now you may have some
contentions though they may say I just
want a yes or no answer so what are you
going to say what I say in this
situation is this well a yes or no
answer doesn't really represent my
beliefs if I asked you what's your name
yes or no it doesn't make sense if I
asked you how many days in the week yes
or no if I asked you do you believe in
abortion yes or no doesn't really
represent your values so if you really
want to connect with me and I know you
want to connect with me so you're
bringing them in to the conversation
then please give me some time to explain
the concept of Islam which is the answer
now they may say this though I heard you
guys like to murder 5-year-old kids and
drink their blood you're not going to
say now well that's a very interesting
question in order for you to understand
the answer you have to understand the
concept of Islam you're never going to
do such a thing when it comes to these
crazy questions negate them say of
course we don't want to drink babies
Bloods we don't want to kill
children but if you want to know
anything about Islam you have to
understand its concept so you always
bring it back to the DA now this is when
people are asking you questions but as
you know many of us we're going to be
going on the streets right and we're
going to have these flyers or some
flyers that are similar to this what's
your gold flyer so what I like to do is
first and foremost talk about posture
and behavior because because you don't
want to basically say hello sir take my
flyer please yeah they have to come so
close almost taste your own Vapor to
come close to you right you want to be
warm not too assertive but warm and
encouraging as if you're hugging
somebody excuse me ma'am today we're
talking about what's your go in life do
you want to have this discussion
today and she'll be like yeah sure and
I'll be like you know in order for you
to understand what's your golden life I
believe you have to understand the
concept of Islam do you have some time
so this is proactive acve da asking
questions and then still linking it to
in the same way so that's initiation so
now they're waiting for the concept of
Islam you've established an empathic
relationship you're feeling with them
you're sincere you're having a good warm
dialogue so they're waiting for the
answer the concept of Islam so this is
where we talk now about common sense we
say you know in order to appreciate the
concept of Islam you have to appreciate
that Islam itself as a
concept satisfies the intellect the mind
and gives Tranquility to the heart all
the other way around it gives
Tranquility to the mind and satisfies
the heart any way you want to put it put
it but the point is we want to show them
that he agrees with the mind and
satisfies the
heart and the reason it does so is
because it's based on reason and Common
Sense and our intuition for example if I
told any of you to cross the road
blindfolded are you going to cross the
road blindfolded imagine playing
football blindfolded you're never going
to score a goal right exactly so it's
based on common sense so get that
agreement that we're not just going to
base it on just pure emotionality that
one day you just felt something and now
you believe that God is a spaghetti
monster or something right it's not
solely based on blind emotions but it's
the combination of both because we're
holistic human beings so that's common
sense and this allows us to move on to
now God's existence and we say well the
first part of the concept of Islam is
that we believe that God is a reality
the Divine reality God is the truth and
we have good reasons for this and give
them some of your reasons now many of
you may have your own reasons but let me
give you
one for instance we know that this whole
universe began it wasn't always here we
don't live in the 1940s and 50s anymore
we know the universe popped into
existence well there are four possible
explanations and by the way the Quran
gives us the logic of these explanations
in chapter 52 verses 35 to 36 these
verses refer to the creation of the
human being but you can apply the logic
to anything that began that is that came
into being so the universe came into
being so what are the four logical
explanations number one it came from
nothing number two it created itself
number three smile it was created by
something else that was created or
number four it was created by something
that is uncreated so we have these four
options and actually make into a
dialogue ask them these questions so do
you think the universe could come from
nothing or via nothing they were like
well let me think about that of course
not because out of nothing what comes if
I had nothing gave you a little bit more
nothing added a little bit more nothing
sprinkled a little bit more nothing what
am I going to get nothing nothing
exactly so there must have been
something that brought the universe into
existence well let's go to the second
option could the universe create
itself well the way I address this is in
the following way for something to
create itself it means it was in
existence and not in existence at the
same time which is impossible could you
exist and not exist at the same time
exactly also I use this as a little joke
could your mother give birth to herself
no exactly your mother couldn't give
birth to herself so we know the universe
couldn't create itself so the third
option could the
universe be created by something
ultimately created for example if this
universe universe one was as a result of
Universe 2 and Universe 2 was as a
result of universe 3 and universe 3 was
as a result of universe 4 and that went
on forever could we have the universe
today no exactly even the classical
scholars in Islam like IB T May Allah's
mercy be upon him he said you can't have
an infinite regress of causes because
you can't have one cause after another
cause after another cause and not going
on forever otherwise you'll never have
the effect which is the universe itself
so we understand
the universe couldn't be as a result of
something else that was created let me
make this a little bit simp simple for
you guys imagine I'm a marine and I want
to shoot a bird right and in order to
shoot a bird I have to ask permission
from the Marine behind me but this
Marine also has to ask permission if
this goes on forever if this goes on
forever will I ever shoot the bird no
exactly same with the universe there
must have been an uncreated creator and
that's why we have the last final option
which is the best option which is the
must have been an uncreated Creator
which makes sense of God which makes
sense of Allah so now we've established
God's existence and don't forget to get
agreement do you agree with this now if
they don't agree with you don't get
stuck on intellectual gymnastics and
philosophical ideas our job is just to
plant the seed that's our job we are
farmers we plant the seeds it's Allah's
job to ensure that it grows into the
fruits of Iman don't get bogged down
rational arguments from the Quran and
Sunnah are only there to wake up the
fitra what is already known within us so
don't get bugged down thinking no you
have to understand this point to say
fine let's agree to disagree but let me
explain to you the concept of Islam
you're planting the right seeds here
does this make sense good so you get
agreement and now we're talking about
God's Oneness so if there's an uncreated
Creator where it makes sense that he
must be eternal because he's uncreated
it's very simple the second point is he
must be powerful because he created the
whole entire universe there's around 10
to the^ of 80 atoms in this universe if
I take one of these atoms and split it
you have a release of energy and that's
just one of them so it follows that this
uncreated Creator is powerful this
uncreated Creator is knowing why if I
drop this card what happens drops it
drops why because of the law of gravity
and a law Giver implies something or a
being that knows right what's very
important though is that this uncreated
Creator is different disjoined and
distinct from
us just like the famous scholar said
that creation is distinct and disjoined
from the Creator why if I made this card
do I become the card
exactly I'm distinct and destroyed from
the card likewise the uncreated Creator
is distinct unique and disjoined from
his
creation does this make sense so far yes
not only that but since he created us
and he created human beings who love
themselves we all love ourselves right
don't say you don't the reason we love
ourselves because we don't want to die
we want to prolong our existence we want
to eat food
now this selflove should make us now
love this Creator why now the famous
11th century scholar alali May Allah's
mercy be upon him do you know what he
said he said your self-love should
project you to the love of God which is
part of worship why because who created
you who sustains you who created the
universe and the causes physical causes
in the universe to sustain your own
creation who even created did love
itself who's the source of Love Al as we
know in Arabic the name of Allah the
loving the excessively loving so you
must want to love God not only love him
but you want to worship him because he
he is the creator of the entire universe
why are you worshiping other things I
don't say you don't worship other things
even atheists worship other things you
obey your boss you obey your parents you
obey your wife your siblings the culture
materialism the system that we live in
we all have these reference points we
will have these enslavements we'll have
these kind of Slavery to all of these
slave masters but if God created me then
I want to enslave myself to him that
would truly free me from the
worldly from The Emptiness of the world
right so this is establishing the
Oneness of
God so we've established we've
established God's existence Oneness now
it leads us to Revelation because if God
does exist he's a reality he is one he's
Transcendent he's unlike his creation he
deserves worship he deserves to be loved
then surely he announced himself to
Mankind and it makes sense that there is
a revelation because we have this
internal Yearning For Truth for God to
know who he is right we all want to hear
the voice of God as they say but where
is it now there are two options you
could think about this internally or
externally so I could think you know I
know who God is he's in my heart and he
is like this if we all had that approach
we have six billion different versions
of God we have different Hearts
different perspectives backgrounds
knowledge ideas cultures Etc so it
follows it must come externally it's
like a knocking on the
door we don't know someone's coming so
what do we say excuse me who is it and
it has to tell us externally who that
person is similarly we need an external
Revelation to announce who God is and
that makes sense of a thing like a book
right
now someone may argue but I don't think
we need Revelation well fine you don't
have to entertain that argument to say
that I agree but let me show you why I
believe we have Revelation let me show
you why we have good reasons to believe
in Revelation in the Quran reason number
one the Quran has the most logical
reasonable rational natural concept for
God what does Allah says say in the
Quran he is one one he is unique he's
Eternal he doesn't give birth he wasn't
born there is nothing like
him very simple this is a God you can
worship use what I've just said which is
from the Quran as criteria to understand
the concept of God filter that through
for example Hinduism that believes a
form of God is everywhere but we said
before in Oneness that God must be
distinct and disjoined from his cre from
that perspective right think about
Buddhism it doesn't even believe in God
in the first place it's like an agnostic
philosophy so the point is when you use
this from the Quran as criteria to
understand what makes sense of a God the
Quran always comes on top it's very pure
rational reasonable and in line with
your mind and with your heart God is one
he's unique he he's self-sufficient he
doesn't give birth he wasn't born there
is nothing like unto him that's the
first point the concept ofed essentially
the Oneness of Allah the second point is
this that the
Quran makes people think it doesn't say
believe in me because I just said so he
appreciates the human being as the human
being not like a robot that you press a
button and it follows
commands and that's why it makes you
think read the Quran engage with the
book of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala as
Allah says in the
Quran do they not reflect upon the Quran
or the locks on their hearts so the more
reflection we do with the Quran the more
our hearts become unlocked to receive
the mercy and guidance of
Allah and the Quran actually makes us
think and in themselves do they not see
do they not reflect talks about man life
in the universe in order to conclude
that not only does God exist but he
deserves to be woried he created me he
deserves to be woried
sh so it makes you think third point it
challenges the whole of mankind
concerning its
authorship the Quran says in Surah Bak
the 2 chapter the 23rd
verse and if you're in doubt talking to
people who doubt normal human beings
this book we sent down to our servant
referring to the prophet Muhammad upon
be peace then bring one chapter like it
and call on your Witnesses and your
supporters besides God if you're
truthful in your claim engaging with
hearts and Minds now this opens a whole
window an array of arguments for the
Quran the linguistic Miracle of the
Quran the historical Miracle of the
Quran the fact that the Quran addresses
different mentalities and different ages
in our human sphere in how human life IT
addresses the 7th Century man the 15th
century man and the 21st century man so
let me explain some of these briefly for
you the first point linguistic Miracle
we know the Quran came down to an Arab
to the Arabs who were the best at
expressing themselves in the Arabic
tongue this is well known in Western and
Eastern scholarship they were Arabic
linguists par Excellence right and the
Quran challenged them and they couldn't
produce anything like the Quran because
the Quran says produce something like it
which is something like its language
according to many of the many of the
scholars but no one has been able to
produce anything like the Quran because
it Des sculpts the Arabic language
that's why Professor abuo a British
orientalist and translator he said
although several attempts have been made
to challenged the Quran none have yet
succeeded so he's echoing what many
other of the have said so what you have
to understand is that well how can we
conclude now that it's from Allah we may
not know Arabic the person you're
talking to you may not know nothing
about Arabic this is fair enough all you
have to get them to understand that they
have to accept something called
testimony do you believe in testimony of
course we do I believe China exists
because of testimony I read in a book I
saw in a map therefore it exists some
guy who looks different from me said
he's Chinese therefore China must exist
it's all testimonial I haven't eaten
Chinese food in China before I haven't
been to China before so it's all
testimonial it's the say so of others
but it has to be authentic and valid
so from this perspective we have to make
them understand that there is an
authentic and valid testimony that no
one has been able to challenge the
Quran if they agree on that then you
have four logical explanations number
one the Quran came from an Arab but we
know this couldn't be the case because
the best Arabs at the time said it
wasn't from a human being it was beyond
them like the famous linguist his name
wasb Al he said by Allah by God this
can't come from a human being so you
can't come from the best Arabs of the
time someone may argue what about
today's Arab well we know today's Arab
has suffered from something called
linguistic degeneration go to Egypt ask
for the telephone they say a a telephone
where is the telephone yeah we know it's
hati as well we know there are Arabic
words for these but there's been too
much linguistic borrowing so someone
who's brought up in that culture can't
express themselves in the same
way the next option maybe it came from a
non-arab but this is impossible even
Allah subhah wa tala in the Quran
addresses this
issue this is this is pure clear Arabic
how can it come from a non Arab doesn't
make sense the third option maybe it
came from the prophet Muhammad S.I
wasallam well again this is impossible
because he was an Arab too and all all
Arabs failed also we know it couldn't
come from the prophet Muhammad sallallah
wasam for many reasons but let me give
you one core reason any human expression
just like this artwork work here what's
your goal if you have the blueprint you
can replicate the blueprint and do it
yourself if you have the blueprint and
the tools
available that's why in Picasso in
famous work you have replicas that are
very expensive and they're almost
identical to the original work cuz they
know the texture the brush Strokes
the stuff used the Quran its blueprint
is Alive and Well today, 1400 years on
we have the tools the grammar the finite
letters of the Arabic language yet we
can't use our capacity and exhaust all
the tools that we have our disposal to
even produce anything like the Quran so
if the Quran was human Expressions
someone would be able to replicate it
just like all human forms of expression
so therefore it must be from Allah it
doesn't make sense can't come from an
Arab can't come from a non-arab can't
come from the prophet Muhammad sallallah
alaihi wasallam therefore it came from
God let me go to the next argument the
historical argument now Allah in the
Quran addresses historical realities
right to teach us not to have
civilizational arrogance don't think you
guys are going to be on top all the time
look at the people before you humble
yourselves and through your humility you
reach Allah through your humility you
come closer to God and you receive
guidance and mercy of God but if you
think you're arrogant and you could take
over the world and you're
self-sufficient that's when your
destruction begins it's a spiritual
element actually the Quran engages with
the heart and saying look at the people
before you they're all Rubble now who
are you and that's why in Islamic
spirituality feel like according to the
Quran and Sunnah The More You Lose
Yourself your ego the more you find
Allah which means the more closer to
Allah you get because if you're arrogant
it's a veil between you and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah just
mentions historical stories using these
kind of spiritual lessons as well but
also amongst many other things Allah
addresses very specific menu information
that to be honest if you were to take it
out of the Quran it wouldn't affect the
message and this how interesting it is
now let me give you an example of the
two different titles for the leader of
the Egyptians in the Quran one is the
other is Malik King so you have two
different titles now Malik King was at
the time of YF
Joseph and the title of Fon Pharaoh was
at the time of Moses
M and it doesn't change it's always for
the specific periods and this quite
interesting because the historians of
the time they didn't have that
distinction the Bible didn't have that
distinction the Torah didn't have that
distinction so where did the prophet
Muhammad upon get the information from
especially when the hieroglyphics which
was the pictoral language of the ancient
Egyptians was a dead language it was
unknown how did he know this accurate
information because if we fast forward
many many years we find the Rosetta
Stone which allowed us to decode the
pictoral language of the Egyptians and
we find that actually at the time of
yuam which is the old Middle Kingdom in
Egyptian history they were calling the
head of the Egyptians the lead of the
Egyptians Malik King and in the new
Middle Kingdom at the the New Kingdom
rather at the time of Moses they started
to call him the pharaoh
what a slight minute detail in the Quran
is absolutely accurate but if you claim
it came from a man like the prophet
Muhammad upon him be peace then the
information at the
time is contradictory to that which is
in the Quran so where did he get the
information from it must be the one that
knows all of history the final argument
I want to talk about and there many many
more things to talk about the Quran is
the fact that when you engage with the
Quran you do T
reflection you see that it's so
fascinating IT addresses
different peoples at different times
it's
multi-layered especially when it talks
about verses that God wants you to think
about like man life in the universe and
I want to give you an example take the
word the word Al can be found in chapter
23 around verse 14 and this word has
five classical meanings and academic
meanings number one blood in a general
sense number two blood clot number three
clay that sticks to the hand number four
a leech or a worm or number five
something that clings now interestingly
when Allah talks about alak which refers
to the development of the human being
the
embryo it refers to the development of
the human being and for a sth century
Arab they would take the meaning that
it's a blood clot because when you look
at dissections and abortions it looks
like bloody right this was in line with
the Greek Physicians like galin who
wrote the book desan and he said in
Greek saris and amados which which means
there's a blood-filled fleshy thing so
maybe Allah is addressing the mentality
of the time cuz yes you do look like a
blood cloth and wow from this Allah
formed me so he deserves to be woried
that's the point of these verses so it's
addressing different times and places
but if we fast forward to the 15th
century when we developed the microscope
we discover the microscope we invent the
microscope we are now allowed or we've
given the capacity to see the embryo
around day 20 to 30 using the microscope
we see it looks like a leech not only
does it look like a leech but even the
internal structure of a leech looks like
the embryo at the same
period isn't that fascinating so IT
addresses different times and places to
make us believe that look look who you
were look what you were and look what
you are now so God deserves to be woried
but what's very interesting is this it
might not even have a scientific or
natural meaning it might have a
spiritual meaning God is probably
telling us maybe from a t point of view
from a reflective point of view hey
you're a leech what does a leech do it's
a parasite it drains the resources of
its host and we were just like that in
our mother's womb we drained her
resources so it's as if God is telling
us lower the wing of humility for your
mother because she sacrificed for you
willingly be compassionate and loving to
your parents especially your mother
because look you are like a leech Like A
Parasite you know what's very
interesting Professor Lord Winston from
Imperial College University in London
and he says the following words that the
leech and the embryo act in the same
parasitic way isn't that amazing now it
may even have no meaning or we may not
have any meaning that we could find in
science or today's reality but that's
fine science will catch up because
that's the whole point of Science and
it's as if God is saying to us you may
not really know what this means now but
it's encouraging us to develop
scientific advancements in the future it
is no wonder the prophet Muhammad upon
HP said for every every disease is a
cure so seek The Cure it's an a a
spiritual encouragement to go and look
into science so we're not anti-science
so this is why the Quran is so amazing
and there's so many other different
reasons that you all know about so this
establishes good reasons to believe the
Quran can't come from man can't come
from the natural world must come from
the supernatural right which makes sense
of God the final point I want to talk
about though is that what does the Quran
actually say now it actually answers all
the big questions in life who are are
you whose are you for whom are you why
are you so why are we we're here we've
been sent down as the Quran says to
worship Allah which means to love him to
know him and to obey him this is our our
reason for existence and it frees us
from the shackles of the empty world the
ephemeral
world and the Quran teaches us how to
worship God and he answers the questions
like why is the evil and suffering in
the world what am I supposed to do what
are my moral priorities what's happening
after I die paradise and hell and this
is a point where if you've established
good reasons for God his Oneness in the
Quran now start to talk about if you
reject
this freely there are two options
Eternal Bliss with your lord in Paradise
or Eternal suffering in
hell and then get agreement etal
suffering in hellish the revelation of
the Quran now this is the point where
you can get shahada now could facilitate
them accepting reality which there is no
daty worthy of worship but Allah and
Muhammad Sall wasallam is his final
messenger but we have another really
powerful argument for Islam which is the
prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam now and you
could link this to the Quran you know
the Quran talks about prophets we
believe in Jesus we believe in Abraham
we believe in Noah we believe in all of
the great prophets and we believe in
Muhammad S.I wasallam upon him be peace
and the prophets came to be carriers of
the divine revelation and to tell us how
to practice the divine revelation in a
way in a summary the Quran is what to do
the Sunnah the practice of the Prophet
is how to do it essentially
okay now you could even remove the
prophet Muhammad upon who be peace away
from the Quran just for a moment and say
just look at his life without the Quran
and when we look at his life we can use
his life as a proof for the Quran and
proof for the Islam itself
because he had a claim he said he was
the final messenger of Allah how can we
assess this claim in four ways he was
lying he was deluded he was both lying
or deluded or who speaking the truth so
let's assess this by looking at the
facts in his life the historical facts
could he be a liar well this is
impossible because even his enemies
entrusted him with things even his
enemies said that he was the trustworthy
and he couldn't be a liive because when
you look look into his life that his
psychological profile is so different to
that of a liar W to claim the prophet
Muhammad upon who he piece a liar is to
claim your mother never gave birth to
you you don't have much evidence that
she gave birth to you anyway you have
her statements your father's and the
Midwife you don't have a DNA certificate
right but the prophet Muhammad upon PE
when you analiz his life there's so much
overwhelming evidence for example just
for the pure message of
he was tortured and abused he was stoned
by children for hours in a town in
Arabia thif he was hungry to the point
where he tied two stones to his stomach
there was no smoke coming outside of the
house of
AA his wife for 6 months
plus he was boycotted from his beloved
City and so many other things that
happened in his life and he was so brave
in the Battle of H when the arrows were
flying and some of the companions had to
inevitably Retreat he was still marching
forward and said I am not a liar I am
the Messenger of Allah is this a
psychological profile of a liar I'm
telling you Allah you claim he a liar
don't even believe your mom is your
mom so he couldn't be a liar could he be
deluded well he couldn't be deluded for
many reasons reason number one look at
his teachings his beautiful teachings go
into the Quran and the Sunnah
specifically the Sunnah his statements
in the authentic
statements look about the morals look
when he talked about
love that you won't enter Paradise until
you believe and you won't believe until
you love one
another he talked about spreading Salam
and peace feeding the poor taking care
of the elderly and the young being
compassionate there is no harming no
reciprocating of harm doing things with
Excellence talked about economy and
distributive justice talked about
essential limited needs I mean when you
go into the Sunnah into the prophetic
practice you see so many wonderful
things and even when you look at the
Simplicity of his life in what do you
have he said oh how great vinegar is as
aari Subhan
Allah so he teaching show that he's not
a deluded man second point there are
many instances in his life that a
deluded person would have used to
support his delusion many but he didn't
let me give you one example his son
ibraim passed away and there was a solar
eclipse the Arabs thought my God he must
be a prophet solar eclipse happened
because his son passed away what does he
say in a Hadith in bukari he says
no the Sun and Moon don't eclipse for
nobody's
death these are the signs of God and
when you see them pray and he taught
them what to
do if he was deluded he would have used
these instances to support his delusion
but he does he didn't and there are many
instan instances like this in his life
so he couldn't be deluded let let me
give you another one actually third
Point his prophecies there are so many
prophecies I've come true for example he
foretold the mom ofar he said oh Amar
what a pity a rebellious group will kill
you he foret told that fa his daughter
will be the first from his family to
meet him in Paradise after his
death and he foret told the Mongol
invasion yeah he said the time will not
come until you fight a people
whose faces are like Shields they're
flat they got slanted eyes they have
furry boots if that's not the Mongol
invasion then I'm Japanese right do you
see my point here so he couldn't be
deluded the next option could he be
could he be both lying and deluded no
because if he couldn't be lying and he
couldn't be deluded putting two wrong
things together is still wrong it's
still false so therefore he must have
been speaking there and that's how he
established the prophethood of the
Prophet Muhammad s. wasam so now you're
ready for the shahada and you humbly ask
them if this makes sense to you it
agrees with your mind and with your
heart accept reality sometimes you know
what I do I show my trainers to the
youth I said do you like my trainers
like yeah man Wicked trainers I said
accepting Islam is like saying my
trainers are excellent are really nice
why cuz you're accepting
reality do you want to accept reality of
course you do because then that really
engages with the soul like you want to
be a human being of Integrity you don't
want to reject truth you want to accept
truth so it's about self psychology yeah
I do want to accept reality well why
don't you accept the fact that God
deserves to be woried that there is no
Dey worthy of worship but Allah and that
Muhammad upon whom he peace is his final
messenger and then you just get the
shahada and by the way don't make it the
satanic shahada there is no God but God
and Muhammad is his messenger no even
Shan knows that the shahada here is
there is no Dey worthy of
worship there is no Dey worthy of
worship but Allah not no God but Allah
no God but God but no Dy worthy of
worship because they have to understand
in their hearts they have to have a
willingness not only to accept the truth
but a willingness to worship Allah
that's very important in the shahada
does this make sense good and once you
get the shahada remember this is where
the da starts this was the easy Point
sincere human beings will become Muslim
but now is when Shan is at them oh
making them down making them be confused
so what you have to do be a brother be
someone who loves them for the sake of
God take the number the email set up a
meeting teach them how to pray give them
a new Muslim
pack and it's very important the first
thing you do is you don't talk about
beards or talk about clothes you talk
abouted the Oneness of Allah and
establishing that link with Allah which
is the prayer once the prayer gets right
everything falls into place and it's
your job to do that
inshallah