Friday Sermon by dr Rashad Khalifa Proving Salat al Juma the Righteous Go Straight to Heaven 1989
Transcript
0:11 ALHAMDULILLAH.
0:13 We praise God.
0:14 WA ASHHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLALLAH, WAHDAHU LA SHAREEKA LAH.
0:18 And we bear witness that there is no other god but the one God.
0:22 Last Friday, Abdullah presented to you evidence that the Friday prayer is mathematically coded. That it is required by God
0:34 to drop all business and come to the Friday prayer. He also presented evidence that the 2 sermons of the Friday prayer
0:41 are part of the prayer. They're counted as... in addition to the two units.
0:48 They complete the 4 units. So, I'm going to ask you to face this way. If you're not facing this way, to face this way. So, can you turn this way?
0:58 Cause...as if you are in the prayer. You can stay on the chair. Ihsan, you can stay on the chair. As long as you are facing this direction, it's OK.
1:11 I have fantastic news for you, but I will keep it for the second KHUTBAH to ensure that everyone who is supposed to be here
1:18 will be here. Meanwhile, I will... I want to thank many of you... most of you... all of you for wishing me a happy birthday last Friday.
1:29 And I want to use this to reflect on God's omnipotence. And the predetermination of the world
1:45 so that we have the freedom of choice at the same time.
1:55 A submitter, by definition, submits to God and believes whatever God says. The opposite, the non-submitter will follow what the parents
2:07 taught him or her. And this is repeated in the Quran in verse... SURA 2, verse 170. SURA 31, verse 21. SURA 43, verses 22 and 23.
2:19 When they are told, the disbelievers, the non-submitters... when they are told "follow what God says"
2:25 They say "no, we follow what our parents told us." So, this is the difference between a submitter and non-submitter.
2:32 Because when you are born, you are a new generation. And in your lifetime, God will reveal new information and new knowledge.
2:41 Knowledge is increasing in this world. And you are required to look at all this new knowledge and sift through it and accept or reject
2:52 whatever is... whatever God wants us to accept or reject. But God tells us in the Old Testament and the New Testament
3:05 and the Final Testament, the Quran, that He will send the Messenger of the Covenant. So, I'm going to read some of these with you.
3:20 In the last book of the Old Testament. Here's the New Testament. In the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi, chapter 3
3:38 under the subtitle, the Messenger of the Covenant: "Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before Me.
3:47 And suddenly there will come to the temple, the Lord whom you seek and the Messenger of the Covenant whom you desire."
3:54 In the New Testament, in Luke 17:22. I'm gonna read it for you. Jesus's prophesying the coming of the Messenger of the Covenant.
4:16 Jesus said to the disciples "a time will come when you will long to see one day of the son of man, but you will not see it.
4:25 They will tell you he is to be found in this place or that. Do not go running about it excitedly. The son of man in his day
4:33 will be like the lightning that flashes from one end of the day to the other. First, however, he must suffer much
4:44 and be rejected by the present age. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the son of man.
4:52 They ate and drank. They took husbands and wives right up to the day Noah entered the Ark. And when the flood came
5:01 it destroyed them all. It was much the same in the days of Lot. They ate and drank. They bought and sold. They built and planted.
5:14 But on the day, Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
5:22 It will be like that on the day of the son of man... It will be like that on the day the son of man is revealed.
5:30 On that day, if a man is on the rooftop and his belongings are in the house, he should not go down to get them.
5:38 Neither should the man in the field return home. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it.
5:48 Whoever loses it keeps it." And this is relevant to the second sermon... second KHUTBAH.
5:56 "I tell you on that night, there will be two men in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.
6:04 Two women will be grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other left. Also in Mathew 24:27.
6:18 24:27. As the lightning from the east flashes to the west, so will the coming of the son of man be.
6:29 So, it's gonna be every person on Earth is going to hear about God's plan and the Messenger of the Covenant.
6:41 In the Final Testament, you're all familiar with the verse... verse 81 in SURA 3
6:47 where God says that after all the prophets have delivered their messages, God will send the Messenger of the Covenant
6:54 to consolidate the messages, purify them, and deliver the one message, the one unified message
7:03 and preach the one unified religion acceptable by God. This is in the Quran 3:81.
7:15 From these looking at the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Final Testament and seeing that God is telling us
7:20 that He will send the Messenger of the Covenant. And for us to be fortunate to be born at this time.
7:27 I mean, when will he come, the Messenger of the Covenant? It's gonna be some day, like a Tuesday of a week
7:37 a certain day of a month. We just happen to exist at the time when God is executing this plan.
7:44 And as submitters, we are required to believe God. And I want to say that the difference between believing God, in this respect
7:55 and disbelieving is the difference between the highest heaven and the lowest pit of hell.
8:02 Therefore, it is my responsibility to help you and help myself strengthen our faith
8:09 strengthen our belief in this regard so long as we have the absolute proof, the physical evidence.
8:19 And this is what I wanted to share with you.
8:32 Edip, where are the markers?
8:42 I talked to my mother this morning and I told her and I told her... I asked her "what time was I born?"
8:50 And she said "don't ask questions like that."
8:55 I said "OK, Mom. Did the midwife come during the day or during the night?"
9:01 She said "they came in the middle of the night." Anyway, she's still giving me instructions, you know.
9:08 Doesn’t matter how old you are, you're still a baby.
9:18 November 19. That was the Birthday and I was thanking you for celebrating it with me.
9:29 And this is a calendar that gives the number of every day of the year. It just happens that November 19 is the only day of the
9:38 year whose number is a multiple of 19, also.
9:44 Now, January 19 is the 19th day of the year. So, you don't count that. It's just like saying 1 is divisible by 1.
9:52 You know 1 is 1 and is not divisible. So, February 19 is the 50th day. It's not divisible by 19.
10:03 March 19 is the 78th day. It's not a multiple of 19. The 19th of April is the 109th day. It's number 109.
10:18 It's not a multiple of 19. The 19th of May is 1 3 9. Number 139, not a multiple of 19. The 19th of June is number 170
10:32 missed by 1. The 19th of July is number 200. The 19th of August is number 2 3 1. The 19th of September
10:51 is number 262. It's not a multiple of 19. The 19th of October is 292. It's not a multiple of 19.
11:03 November 19th is number 323. The multiple of 19. 19th of December is number 353. It's not a multiple of 19.
11:13 So, November 19 is the only day of the year whose number is a multiple of 19. What does this tell us?
11:20 And my mother was sterile for 4 years before I was born, by the way. So, this means God designed, you know
11:30 This tells us about God's power that He knew in advance that this baby is gonna grow up and, rather, assigned to him
11:40 finding the code 19 in the Quran which is very simple, existed in the Quran for 1400 years. And
11:49 I want to quote Batool Karmally's very simple rebuttal of people who say who don't believe
11:56 She says "so just explain why did he find the number 19, the code 19?" So, God knew in advance who He was assigning this to
12:06 and He picked out the only day in the year that is dated 19 and its number is a multiple of 19.
12:14 There's something else I wanted to say. What is it? Yes. Now, this means 266 days before this date, there has to be a conception.
12:28 I mean, God planned the pregnancy and the birth and this is before we come to this world.
12:37 and this is... this is a time also to share with you a discovery by Azhar Khan.
12:47 These are the Arabic alphabet and the gematrical value of the Arabic alphabet.
12:56 As you know, we tell the people that 19 means 1. The gematrical value of the word... of the number 19 or the word 1 is 19.
13:07 And 19 is God's signature. We're gonna find 19 is God's signature in all His creation, the Sun, the moon, you.
13:17 You have 209 bones in your body. 19 times 11. Dr. Sabahi gave us a lecture on the elements in the universe.
13:25 And the maximum number of electrons is 114. A multiple of 19.
13:32 So, Azhar Khan put the gematrical values... Oh, when we tell the people, the skeptics
13:40 that 19 is the numerical value of word 1. That God is proclaiming there is only one God. You shall worship God alone.
13:49 The first commandment in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Final Testament, they tell you "how do we know that
13:56 19 is the value of one?" OK. Azhar Khan put the values of these, the gematrical values of all the letters
14:05 up to 1000 which is the letter... the last letter غ and he found that this number is a multiple of 19. So, this validates
14:14 the value of every alphabet letter in the Arabic language. And this tells us that God designed
14:22 the Arabic language and designed the Quran with the code 19 in it before the Earth was created.
14:31 Therefore, it is not too much to also... the student who is to research this code 19 is born on the 19th day
14:42 of a month, the only day in the year that is also divisible by 19. The purpose of sharing this with you
14:54 against my own personal tendency is because I want to strengthen your faith and my faith.
15:02 This is one of the things that God associates with the number 19 in SURA 74.
15:07 (74:31) وَيَزْدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِيمَـٰنًۭا
15:09 the believers, they increase in faith.
15:13 There's another thing. We were using this same alphabet yesterday. My sister compiled my name. She numbered them consecutively
15:24 regardless of the gematrical value. And she calculated my name and it came out to 114, the total of the letters.
15:33 So, all this tells us that God predetermined and predesigned all these things and all you can say SUBHAN ALLAH, glory be to God
15:43 that He is omnipotent. And I better stop at this point to leave some room for the great news coming up.
15:52 TUBU ILLA ALLAH, repent.
16:13 ALHAMDULILLAH.
16:14 We praise God.
16:16 WA ASHHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLALLAH, WAHDAHU LA SHAREEKA LAH.
16:19 And we bear witness that there is no other god except the one God.
16:23 The great news that I have for you started out with a few questions by Lisa and the discussion that followed. And then,
16:32 as I will share with you the verses in the Quran we have been reading them hundreds of times, but you will see how
16:40 how logical and beautiful they fold together. The great news is that the righteous go straight to heaven.
16:48 This is the great news. Then, I'm gonna give you the evidence. In other words, they do not... the unrighteous go to death. They die.
16:58 The unrighteous do not really die. They certainly move from one stage to next stage in a gentle way.
17:09 There's a SURA that says... that says that the angels of death snatch the souls of the disbelievers
17:18 and they beat them up by the time of death. In verses... in SURA 8 verse 51. In SURA 47, verse 27
17:27 God is telling us that the angels who are guarding us now and serving us.
17:32 When the time comes and the person who dies a disbeliever, they beat the person, specifically on the face and the rear end.
17:41 You can imagine. Also, they snatch the soul because obviously this disbeliever is going to hell.
17:53 But before that there is a period of death and a continuous nightmare. This is what the Quran teaches us.
17:59 In SURA 40, God says "they see hell everyday, but they do not enter it until the day of... the day of Resurrection... the day of Judgement.
18:08 because hell is not here yet. Now, look at God's wisdom and mercy.
18:20 God's wisdom and mercy is that He created heaven, first before we were brought here and He put Adam and Eve there.
18:32 The Earth was here. Yes, it is egg-shaped. And Adam and Eve were up here in heaven connected with their bodies down here.
18:45 This is some kind of invisible connection. But the souls of Adam and Eve - this is all allegorical - were up there in heaven enjoying heaven.
19:01 Therefore, heaven exists. When they broke God's law, they were brought down here. They were sucked back into their bodies.
19:09 But heaven exists and this is where we go the moment of death. It is exactly like when we sleep. When you and I sleep, the righteous
19:20 their soul voluntarily roams around. And this is exactly how the righteous die.
19:27 They just leave their bodies here on Earth. Through the bodies disintegrate and go away, but that doesn’t matter
19:33 because we're gonna be coupled again with new bodies on the day of Resurrection. But the righteous go straight to heaven.
19:41 Now, here's the startling evidence. In the same SURA, where God tells us that the angels of death snatch
19:51 death is a painful process for the unrighteous. And the angels snatch their souls out of their bodies. They're resisting.
20:01 And they're being beaten up cause this is the day they receive the bad news. At the time of death, every person knows whether
20:12 he or she is going to heaven or hell through these very clear verses. In the same SURA, God says that the angels invite the righteous.
20:24 It's an invitation. And it's met by joy. It's like the angel come at you and say "now, you can go to heaven." You say "really! Is it time?"
20:36 So, in the... so, we're told that eagerly the righteous move on to the next stage. And it is beautiful.
20:46 As the descriptions in SURA 2 verse 25. Now notice
20:53 these things that we read hundreds of times but this is the time that God wants to inform us, tell us this good news.
21:00 God says "give good news to those who believe and lead a righteous life that they have deserved gardens with flowing streams.
21:08 When provided with a provision of fruits therein, they say "this is what was provided for us previously." The key word here is provision.
21:17 OK. Now, God says... this is a commandment... in SURA 3 verse 169... well, let me go in the same SURA 2, first.
21:28 SURA 2 verse 154, God says "do not say about those who are killed in the cause of God that they are dead."
21:38 Do not say that they are dead. Because "for they are alive at their Lord." In this verse says "they are alive but you do not perceive."
21:50 Now, this is one. In SURA 3 verse 169, God says "do not think that those who are killed in the cause of God are dead
22:00 for they are alive at their Lord being provided. The same word is used as in 2:25, provision.
22:08 And then we are told in a number of verses that it is not just... you don't have to fight in the cause of God and get a gun or something
22:15 and get killed. That... when the righteous die, also, that death as a righteous or... or... or being killed in the cause of God, either way
22:27 is the same. And we see this in SURA 22, verse 58, for example, 22:58.
22:43 That's a good one.
22:46 That's 4:69. 4:69
22:51 Now, looking at 22:58, says "those who emigrated for the sake of God, then got killed or died," either way
23:01 "God will surely shower them with good provisions." The same words are being used.
23:06 (22:58) لَيَرْزُقَنَّهُمُ ٱللَّهُ رِزْقًا حَسَنًۭا
23:08 The same repetition of the same words in the same verse. So, God says: do not say about those who
23:17 who died or get killed in the cause of God as dead. We cannot say that. They do not die. The righteous do not die. They simply move on
23:26 from this world to another stage on a very joyous and very happy day. Here's another clue that is really strong.
23:34 And this is in 44:56.
23:47 Now, we read about the two deaths and two lives, right? These are the disbelievers. In SURA 40 verse 12
24:00 The disbeliever says "our Lord, you put us to death twice and you gave us two lives. Is there any way out of hell?"
24:08 The disbeliever say that. In the beginning of SURA 2, God says "how can you disbelieve in God when He...
24:16 when He... when you were dead and He gave you life. Then, He puts you to death. Then, He gives you life."
24:21 But this is talking to the disbelievers. Now, watch what the believers say. SURA 56... 44:56
24:30 They never taste death therein beyond the first death. He has spared them the retribution of hell. Now, this is... this is a very powerful clue.
24:41 In Arabic
24:42 (44:56) لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا ٱلْمَوْتَ إِلَّا ٱلْمَوْتَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ
24:45 Except the first death.
24:50 So, the second death for the righteous is not death at all. It's just like going to sleep and it is...and the angels come and invite you
25:00 to go on to a fantastic place. And it is... it is met with joy and happiness. Is this great news or is this great news?
25:10 ALHAMDULILLAH.
25:13 Let's see what else did I forget, here.
25:18 Oh, this is very important. I'm getting forgetting it because now I'm gonna impress on you. Cause you will never forget it.
25:25 This makes it special. And it is very important. In SURA 36, verse 20. And you can read it again. 36 starting from 20 to 27.
25:38 This gives the whole story away. I mean really proves it. 36:20
25:49 SURA YA SEEN.
25:52 OK. It says "a man coming...came running... a man came running from the other side of the city saying "O, my people
26:01 follow the messengers. Follow those who do not ask you for any wage and are guided.
26:06 Why should I not worship the One who initiated me and to Him is your ultimate return?
26:13 Shall I set up besides Him powerless gods? If the Most Gracious willed any harm for me, the intercession will not help me one bit.
26:22 Nor can they rescue me. Then, I will be totally astray.
26:29 I have believed in your Lord. Please, listen to me." Now, this is a man who's asking his people to worship God alone.
26:36 Number 26. "(At the time of his death,)" this is in parentheses, my... my own words. This shall be in the final translation, INSHA ALLAH.
26:47 do not... I'm not using this word "death." "he was told..." Listen to this. "enter paradise" or enter heaven. "he said O, I wish my people knew.
26:59 that my Lord has forgiven me and made me honorable." Now, why would he say "I wish my people knew"? Because obviously
27:08 his people are there on Earth. He's up here in heaven.
27:12 His people are down here, but they do not know. Remember the verse? "But you do not perceive."
27:17 So, he's up here in heaven and he says "I wish my people know."
27:22 But it is God's... it is the test and it is God's wisdom that Khomeini cannot come back and tell us where he is now. People
27:32 People, once they cross that line, they cannot come back here and tell us. But God is telling us. And this man obviously went to heaven
27:41 and he's saying "I wish my people knew that my Lord has forgiven me and made me honorable."
27:48 So, is that in Old Testament or New Testament?
27:51 This is the Final Testament.
27:53 AQEM AL-SALAT
27:54 ALLAH-O AKBAR. ALLAH-O AKBAR. LA ILLAHA ILLA ALLAH.