Friday Sermon by dr Rashad Khalifa Classification of Creatures Loving GOD Hell is not Enough 1988
Transcript
0:06 Allahu Akbar (God is Supreme) x4
0:40 La Elaha Ella Allah (There is no god except the one God.)
0:41 Alhamdu Lillah, Wa Ash-hadu Alla Elaha Ella Allah Wahdahu La Shareeka Lah.
0:49 We praise God and we bear witness that there is no god except the One God.
0:58 I will be just chatting with you since I did not really prepare anything.
1:03 And I want to talk about loving God.
1:10 A rhetorical question: Should we love God? And why?
1:16 And to understand this why we should love God and how much
1:22 The Quran describes the believers as loving God the most,
1:26 that is more than anything else.
1:29 And I will try to share with you the logical reasons why we should, we must love God.
1:39 So, if we go back in history, a few billion years, we had billions of creatures of God who were not classified.
1:53 They were not angels or humans or jinns yet.
1:59 It was God and His kingdom.
2:02 And then one of the creatures developed this blasphemous idea that challenged God's absolute authority.
2:12 Satan thought that he can be also a god,
2:16 he has enough power and enough qualifications, he thought, for him to serve as a god in his own right.
2:25 So, he initiated this blasphemy.
2:29 Among the creatures were some who were also as egotistic and as proud, almost, as egotistic and as proud as Satan.
2:41 And they said to themselves "yeah."
2:45 Satan, those creatures were almost equal, almost, there were some stronger than others by virtue of whatever God gave them.
2:56 But they thought that yes Satan has enough qualities, enough qualifications to be a god besides God.
3:06 These creatures were also egotistic.
3:10 They had ego. They had pride.
3:13 And subconsciously they were thinking that yes we too, you know, we're close to Satan. We're almost equal.
3:23 So, we too can be gods maybe, but this was all in their heads.
3:28 So, they committed the blasphemy but not to the same extent as Satan.
3:33 They blasphemed against God.
3:38 They thought mentally that they can challenge, or they challenged His absolute authority.
3:43 Now, God's absolute authority is not an egotistic practice on the part of God, SUBHANAHU WA TA'AALAA, may He be glorified,
3:53 but because it is the truth.
3:55 The truth is that only God can run a kingdom where He is the God.
4:03 This is the truth.
4:04 The truth is that there is no one else who can run a kingdom.
4:11 So, God decided, as we've been talking about this to put Satan to the test.
4:22 He said "the one who initiated the blasphemy will, will... I will make him a god and see what he can do."
4:32 Prove that he is incompetent, that he cannot do it.
4:35 Because this is the best way to find out.
4:37 If you claim to be able to fly a plane, the best thing to find out is to put you in a plane and say "here, go ahead and fly."
4:45 And this is what God decided to do with Satan
4:48 And all those creatures who agreed with Satan were destined to become his subjects and to witness his incompetence.
5:02 And suffer his incompetence, as a matter of fact.
5:06 But anyway, God, now at this moment, the creatures became classified.
5:12 The creatures who without hesitation, without any question accepted God's absolute authority, they became angels
5:23 or they were angels.
5:24 Satan who challenged God's absolute authority became a jinn
5:30 became a fallen angel.
5:32 He received a judgement, a sentence, to be confined to the innermost universe,
5:40 This comes later, of course.
5:42 and to be put to the test.
5:45 And then, his descendents, Satan's descendents are all the jinns.
5:51 And the creatures who mentally agreed with Satan are you and me, became humans.
5:56 These became the human beings.
5:59 Now, the angels, as you know from the Quran, from Sura number 2, when God said "I am gonna put Satan to the test.
6:10 I am gonna send these creatures, give them a second chance."
6:13 God is giving us a second chance to denounce the blasphemy of challenging His absolute authority,
6:21 and to come now in these circumstances where we start it clean. We're born into this world, forgetting everything else, starting all over again.
6:32 And now we can denounce any SHIRK, any idea of having another god besides God
6:39 and believe in the absolute authority of God alone.
6:47 If we can do this, then we go back to the kingdom of God.
6:51 So, God willed that we get another chance.
6:56 What did the angels say?
6:58 They said "send them all to Hell."
7:01 That's what the angels said.
7:03 They said "are You gonna put on earth those who are going to corrupt it and shed blood?"
7:08 Remember that from Sura number 2?
7:11 So, in effect what are they saying?
7:14 God said "I'm going to give these creatures a chance to come back to Me."
7:19 The angels said "send them all to Hell."
7:23 Should we love God or not?
7:27 If it were up to the angels who believed in God's absolute authority, we will be now in Hell.
7:38 There would be no test, no seven universes, no planet earth.
7:43 It will be just Hell.
7:44 We'll be dismissed from God's Kingdom.
7:46 And you and I will be now in Hell.
7:48 But God who describes Himself as Arrahman Arraheem, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful said "I'm giving them another chance to come to Me."
7:59 You think we should love God?
8:02 Should you not love God for that?
8:05 This is why we should love God.
8:08 I just found some basis for this.
8:14 I mean, we find this dispute in the High Society in Sura 38, verse 69.
8:23 And I also found traces of it, maybe not even traces, maybe the same thing in the Bible, in the previous scripture.
8:39 Romans 3:23, which is a multiple of 19, chapter 3, verse 23, as you know, ...
8:52 guess I didn't write the verse here,
8:58 talks about,
9:02 Oh, yeah, ok, I didn't write it here, but now I remember it.
9:06 It says "we have all sinned."
9:08 Talks about the fact that we have all sinned.
9:14 We have all challenged God's absolute authority.
9:20 We have committed a crime. This is why we are here.
9:23 A terrible, terrible crime for which the angels saw that we should go to Hell right away.
9:32 You probably have seen this in Roman 6:23 where it says, "the wages of sin is death"
9:40 Very famous statement: "the wages of sin is death."
9:44 Because what happened as a consequence of this rebellion, Satan's rebellion and yours and mine,
9:56 the system that God designed called for putting all those creatures to death.
10:02 You and I were dead before we came here.
10:05 And that God created death, as a consequence of that blasphemy.
10:12 So, the wages of sin is death.
10:14 It comes from that origin.
10:16 And then in Hebrews 1:3, we read that talks about "purging our sins."
10:24 Purging our sins means denounce our idolatry,
10:30 Idolatry being the idea that there may be a god besides God.
10:34 So that we could become "sons" of God
10:40 which means going back to the Kingdom of God.
10:45 Tooboo Ela Allah. Repent. Let's try to get back.
11:02 Alhamdu Lillah. We praise God,
11:05 Wa Ash-hadu Alla Elaha Ella Allah Wahdahu La Shareeka Lah.
11:08 And we bear witness that there is no god except He.
11:15 We committed that blasphemy
11:17 and to put it bluntly, the angels said "send them all to Hell."
11:24 And God said "I know what you don't know."
11:30 God said "I am gonna give them another chance."
11:34 But when we look around us, we see how bad we are
11:41 how bad the human race is.
11:44 They're so bad, it's not even funny.
11:47 They're so bad.
11:52 There is not a single mosque in the world, other than this mosque and a few associated with it, where God is commemorated alone,
12:05 where God is the absolute God.
12:08 Every single mosque in the world is violating the commandment in 72:18 that says:
12:15 The mosque belongs to God, do not call on any other name but His name.
12:22 And try to tell, try to ask them to say, La Elaha Ella Allah, There is no god except God.
12:27 We have a mosque right here. Let's try it.
12:29 Let's go there and tell them. I mean,
12:31 it's not even three miles from here.
12:35 Tell them La Elaha Ella Allah (There is no go except God)
12:37 and they beat you up.
12:38 They will actually get violent.
12:41 That's a typical mosque.
12:44 And they beat you up because we're in America here because this is civilized world.
12:49 Over there, they'll kill you
12:50 for saying La Elaha Ella Allah (There is no god except God).
12:53 No kidding!
12:55 They're so bad.
13:00 Every church in the world, the biggest ones, the cathedrals, all those beautiful buildings, they're all blaspheming against God saying:
13:13 "Jesus God or son of God, or the father, the son, the holy spirit."
13:19 See, this is who we are.
13:22 Initially we challenged God's absolute authority.
13:28 And we are the few that God told the angels "I know what you do not know."
13:38 I was writing a footnote in the new translation on why did God allow two verses, false verses to be injected in the Quran for 1400 years.
13:50 Why did He permit it for 1400 years?
13:57 And it's because just a few years after the prophet's death, they reverted to idolatry.
14:05 The Muslims reverted to idolatry.
14:10 Only this time around, their idol was the prophet who defeated them.
14:13 The prophet won the war, and they became Muslims.
14:18 But a few years later, they reverted to idolatry.
14:23 They did not deserve the Quran.
14:25 And they killed Ali and his family which is the prophet's family.
14:31 They killed the prophet's family because of these two verses.
14:35 And I have the documents. You're gonna see the documents in the footnote.
14:43 I didn't mean to get into this subject but since I got into it...
14:46 During the time of Uthman,
14:53 the Khalifa formed a committee to make copies of the Quran,
14:58 take the original Quran that the prophet wrote with his own hand,
15:02 make copies from it and send it to the new lands.
15:06 They opened new lands in Syria, Iraq and so on
15:12 and they wanted to send these copies there.
15:14 Now, Sura 9 was the last Sura revealed in Medina.
15:19 The prophet had written all these Suras with the instructions as to where each one goes.
15:25 And that so, one of the scribes or maybe two suggested "since these copies are going to new lands, let us honor our prophet
15:35 and add a couple of verses praising him."
15:39 Ali was a member of that committee.
15:42 The members were Uthman, who's the supervisor, he was the Khalifa. He was just talking. Ali was a member. Zeid Ibn Thaabet was a member and Ubayy Ibn Ka‘ab was a member, and maybe some others.
15:55 So, when the suggestion came up, Ali was outraged.
15:59 And then, as a consequence of that suggestion, Uthman was killed, Ali became the Khalifa.
16:05 The supporters of the two verses waged war on Ali.
16:09 Fifty years of war came after that because of these two verses.
16:16 And they culminated in the battle of Karbala where Hussein and the whole family of the prophet were wiped out, except for women and children.
16:23 They killed them all.
16:27 And then the first ruler to come after this war was Marwan Ibn Al Hakam.
16:31 The first thing he did was what? He burnt the Quran that Muhammad wrote with his own hand.
16:36 He was afraid war will start all over again.
16:39 So, these people did not deserve the true Quran.
16:45 And for the last 1400 years,
16:48 there was not... I mean, I'm astounded that we came to this conclusion by God's grace that we shall worship God Alone, that we follow the Quran.
17:00 And God is giving us a present, gifts.
17:03 God is flooding us with presents including the true Quran,
17:09 which should be printed, IN SHAA ALLAH, for the first time in 1400 years.
17:14 We're going to have the true Quran without the two false verses.
17:18 And I have now the footnote available for any of you to read the evidence, all the proof and it is irrefutable
17:26 about the two verses.
17:29 In the last few weeks, Abdullah and Mahmood have been busy.
17:36 The pipeline had been open through them, and Ihsan.
17:40 And the proof has been coming very fast.
17:45 Just so to be included in that footnote.
17:48 It's unbelievable.
17:50 Abdullah walked in with some more miracles this afternoon.
17:54 I thought I was printing the final footnote.
17:57 He said "it's not the final."
18:02 So, those people... God permitted those two verses because they did not deserve the Quran.
18:14 They're so bad that we will understand the verses.
18:18 In Sura 22, verses 19 to 22, they say that
18:26 - These are very harsh verses,
18:28 and if you see those people, you will understand that God is very Merciful to punish them just that much in Hell.
18:38 They say... these verses say that clothes of fire will be tailored for them.
18:44 Something like Sulphuric acid be poured on top of their head,
18:50 -the sulphuric acid of the Hereafter which is much stronger than the one we have now-
18:55 that will melt their inside out.
18:57 They will be confined in pots of iron or cells of iron.
19:02 Whenever they want to leave from the misery, they'll be forced back in,
19:06 I mean they're very harsh verses.
19:08 But when you meet these people, you'll see that God is Merciful.
19:14 because they insisted on going to that retribution,
19:18 but they really deserve a lot worse.
19:21 We met one of them, as I told you in the last KHUTBA, in Los Angles,
19:27 when just before me came a professor from Chicago theological institute,
19:32 to tell us that the Quran is hallucination of Muhammad, internal hallucination of Muhammad,
19:38 that it is fallible.
19:39 And then, I came immediately after him, presenting physical irrefutable evidence that the Quran is divine and it's from God.
19:48 Then, these people, some Arabs, so-called Muslims,
19:56 they stood up and attacked me.
19:58 They didn't attack they guy who said the Quran is internal hallucination.
20:01 And you look at them and you know that this punishment is not enough for them,
20:06 that God is very Merciful.
20:08 Really, I mean, if I am going to oppose somebody and I'm a Muslim,
20:14 and I hear someone say that Quran is internal hallucination, I will change my plan.
20:20 I will attack the guy who says "Quran is hallucination"
20:23 and I will take this fellow on the side and beat him up with something, but on the side, not in public.
20:33 They didn't do that.
20:37 On the Day of Judgement, they will call on the guardian of Hell, Mãlek,
20:41 and they will say "tell your Lord to finish us off."
20:44 And Mãlek will say "sorry, you're gonna last forever."
20:48 Because they insisted on it.
20:54 This, in Sura 40, it says that these people argue with falsehood to defeat the truth.
20:59 And these people came with, I mean, what is clearly falsehood.
21:05 They came with things fixed in their mind.
21:08 They say "you counted the letter in this way, but they should be counted in another way,"
21:13 which is a wrong way.
21:14 However, when I presented the paper, I gave them numbers, not even letters.
21:21 They can take the letters, but they should have changed their minds then, because there's no argument against the numbers.
21:27 If you take all the numbers in the Quran and add them up, you have a multiple of 19.
21:31 This has nothing to do with letters.
21:34 But God says the reason they insisted on going to hell,
21:40 and the reason they're subjected to that terrible retribution which is not enough for them,
21:45 is because we have given them the truth, but they hated the truth.
21:54 Aqem Al-Salat.