Quran Study 25 Feb 1983 By Dr Rashad Khalifa
Transcript
0:01 In that conversation about the translation, you remember I brought this problem to you about teaching them what they did not know.
0:08 Yeah.
0:09 Yeah. I personally, in front of you, I remember I told you, I don't want you to have, I told you it's good to put it, but you know what's in my mind? I'll tell you.
0:19 Yeah.
0:22 Because, if these people really know what it means, it only means that Salat is taught by Allah Himself.
0:27 Right.
0:28 It must not come from Muhammad.
0:31 It's very clear.
0:33 It can be joined up with Ibrahim.
0:35 But prayer is taught.
0:37 Man do not know how to pray.
0:40 Man do not know how to pray.
0:42 It is Allah who taught him how to pray.
0:45 Which strengthens the argument.
0:48 More, by accepting their additions in the books.
0:52 They didn't see.
0:53 No, they are not allowed.
0:55 But I'm sorry, I'm sorry Amr, but I don't want anymore, because that would be polemical, it's just something very disagreeable.
1:03 This last week, I talked to God, and I have, you know when the events are near, it's very hard to sleep.
1:10 But after a few days, I've analyzed who to pray for them. In one point of view, it's very critical.
1:16 Maybe in your khutbah insha'Allah, God has decreed it.
1:25 It's very interesting, because we have this problem, in brief, it is, uh, from a mash-up
1:34 combination, you know?
1:36 Yeah, you go ahead.
1:37 I'll give him a ride.
1:38 Go ahead, I'll give him.
1:40 See you tonight.
1:41 You know, tonight, there is a family coming from Los Angeles, all the way from Los Angeles
1:48 to visit me. They left at six o'clock. What time are they supposed to come?
1:52 Twelve hours. Too much. Anyhow, but
1:57 maybe they'll be too tired. If they're too tired, they will not come.
2:01 That's the same person I met.
2:05 He came here. Big man.
2:09 He was biding his time in his study.
2:13 Anyhow. Are you still recording, Paul?
2:23 It is a form of assertion, an assertion of power, again, the contagion of ego.
2:32 Some of those boys have busied themselves. For example, Asma is not interested in A or not A or B.
2:41 The idea was that we would push him in front.
2:45 So I was telling Carl.
2:47 If he plays a very careful game, if he plays a very careful game, he can enter a coalition.
2:52 Because he's a man looking for identity.
2:55 A cause.
2:56 He's looking for a cause.
2:58 And then, the only way the woodchip can have fireworks is by touching him.
3:02 Because the rest are cowards. They'll push him.
3:04 So they're using him.
3:06 And he's using Carl.
3:06 And he's using him against Martin.
3:08 But really, setting aside being one man or the other,
3:12 do you see anything about that?
3:14 It's only to show how smart they are.
3:17 You know, if they ever come again,
3:21 I think we ought to set it up formally.
3:23 If they ever come again, I think we should set it up formally.
3:26 I know I'm being recorded and I gave my permission.
3:32 You know, we have a mediator,
3:34 have written questions submitted,
3:37 have the mediator speak the question and then each man, what I was hoping they would have gotten in the first place.
3:42 You know, that is what a debate is.
3:45 It's an intelligent discussion between people from the very beginning