United Submitters International Conference Explaining the Fullfillment of the Covenant 1988
Transcript
0:08 Sheikh Al-Banna had a particular slot on Cairo radio where he read the Quran.
0:16 All the others were changed. The times, the dates changed but not sheikh Al-Banna. He always recited
0:22 Quran at six o'clock in the morning every Tuesday on Cairo radio for as long as I
0:29 lived in Egypt and after that. So, here I have a time, six o'clock in the morning, and the day
0:36 Tuesday. OK. So, I went to Mecca for, for the pilgrimage. My parents were with me and we
0:48 prayed the morning, the Fajr at the Kaaba and then we came back to our room.
0:56 and I was preparing... that was Tuesday... I was preparing to hear my favorite reciter on Cairo radio.
1:04 So, I got my little radio and I sat in bed. My father, my mother sat in the same room in
1:10 their beds and I turned the radio to Cairo and sure enough, here comes sheikh Al-Banna and I can tell you
1:21 the reason I know I was fully awake is I never never never never fall asleep when sheikh Al-Banna is reading
1:28 Quran. And when I... when I went for Hajj from here, I took with me a hundred cassette tapes and I gave them to my
1:38 brother Atef and I told him, specifically, I want you to record anything that Al-Banna comes
1:44 whenever it comes on the radio or the TV or anything, record it. This hundred tapes. I want them full
1:49 of recitations of sheikh Al-Banna. OK. So, in Mecca now... back to Mecca, Tuesday, I'm sitting in my bed
1:58 turning the radio to Cairo radio. There comes sheikh Al-Banna and he recites SURAT Al-Rahman
2:05 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
2:06 (55:1) ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ
2:07 (55:2) عَلَّمَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ
2:07 (55:3) خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ
2:09 and I am in ecstasy.
2:13 and then, I didn't hear Al-Banna anymore. I was taken to some place in the universe
2:23 and I... and I know I was fully awake but here I am somewhere and I saw these... at the time
2:33 nothing was explained to me. "It is none of your business now but you are here
2:39 for some reason." And I was... I saw... all I was told was that these are all the Prophets: Jesus, Moses
2:47 Muhammad, David, Solomon, Jonah, Lot, Noah, all of them. I was told this is all of them and they
2:56 appeared like those oval pictures that many of us have, except these are alive people that people...
3:06 God showed them to me the way they looked in this world because I probably would have freaked out
3:11 if God showed them to me in any other way and they have their different dresses, different
3:17 turbans and different robes but the person was ovally was down from, like, the head to
3:27 the knees. And one by one... they came in one by one and they looked straight in my face and they shake their
3:35 heads approvingly. Something like this, approvingly. And then the person would go like that.
3:40 And another one will come this way and so on. They kept going like this and I didn't know which is which.
3:49 Only Abraham was identified to me. When Abraham came, I was told "this is Abraham."
3:57 And he's the only one identified to me and I didn't know what this was all about. Then, this ended. And when I
4:05 came back, I looked at my father and I said "guess what! I just... I just met all the prophets and Abraham
4:12 was identified to me and he looks like us." Because it struck me, the resemblance, I remember what
4:19 they look like. Well, I can't tell which is which. So, I told him "Abraham looks like
4:27 us, the Khalifas, you know what I mean. Look at me. Look at my brother. Look at my sister. There's a particular look and
4:33 Abraham looked like that." So, but the first thing that my father said was "what did Muhammad look like?"
4:42 I said "sorry dad. I don't know which one was he but when I see him I recognize him again and we'll tell him what the name is ."
4:53 OK. So, I just... I enjoyed it very much and I told my... my parents and I told my friends. I think
5:03 I mentioned it, maybe, to Soad in passing. It was not important to me. It was just... cause like I said it
5:09 was done like "it is none of your business. This is just something to be done." So, to make a long story
5:14 short, four months ago, this was all explained to me and this is why I've been telling you that
5:23 ALLAH SUBHANAHU WA TA'ALA has been Merciful and Graceful towards us and that in SURA 3, verse 81, it was explained to me
5:32 that this is in fulfillment of this verse. That in retrospect what happened was that God took the
5:40 person, the Rashad Khalifa, to that place somewhere in the universe and the prophets, they were told "this is
5:48 the person who is to confirm all your messages and to confirm all of you. Do you approve? Do you
6:00 fulfill your pledge to Me that We took before creation?" And every one of them was now
6:05 explained. Now, that it is explained, I know what happened. So, they come in and they look in my
6:10 face and they say "yes, we do. Yes, we we agree. We support him. We believe." And this is the
6:17 explanation that came to me. So, specifically, verse 81 of SURA 3 is what makes me dwell on that
6:26 verse because we are told and God told us now. I believe there are many many many messengers
6:34 because of what the Quran says. You know that if I tell you anything that is not Quranic,
6:40 you tell me "get out of here." And I'll be the first to denounce that. But God says, in SURA 16
6:48 يُنَزِّلُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةَ بِٱلرُّوحِ مِنْ أَمْرِهِۦ عَلَىٰ مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦٓ أَنْ (16:2) أَنذِرُوٓا۟ أَنَّهُۥ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنَا۠ فَٱتَّقُونِ
6:58 Excuse me, I mixed this with SURA 4.
7:01 يُنَزِّلُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةَ
7:02 He sends down the angels
7:04 بِٱلرُّوحِ
7:04 with inspiration or revelation or information.
7:08 This is what a RUH is
7:10 يُنَزِّلُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةَ بِٱلرُّوحِ مِنْ أَمْرِهِۦ
7:12 in accordance with His commands
7:15 عَلَىٰ مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦٓ
7:16 upon whomever He wills from among his servants. Servants. Plural.
7:22 أَنْ أَنذِرُوٓا۟
7:24 that you shall preach
7:25 أَنَّهُۥ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنَا۠
7:27 that there is no god...
7:28 لا اله الا الله
7:30 that there is...
7:31 أَنَّهُۥ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنَا۠
7:33 فاعبدون
7:33 or
7:34 فَٱتَّقُونِ
7:34 I forget now
7:37 The other verses in SURA 40
7:42 where He says, in the present tense, now this is in the present tense
7:48 and the verse in SURA 40 I have to try to remember it now.
7:54 It's in the beginning of SURA 40. Edip will get it. But there's another verse in another SURA that says
7:58 ٱللَّهُ يَصْطَفِى
7:59 You know this one very well.
8:01 (22:75) ٱللَّهُ يَصْطَفِى مِنَ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ رُسُلًا وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ
8:05 God chooses from among the angels and from the people رُسُلًا, messengers.
8:14 There are many kinds of messengers. And I've got news for you. You are
8:18 messengers. You deliver the message: LA ILLAHA ILLA ALLAH.
8:24 Every one of you when you meet someone and you tell them to worship God alone, you are
8:29 messengers. Many many messengers. And you know you are. You are delivering God's message but
8:35 this particular instant makes me just one of you, but makes me one who is named or just given
8:43 a special, not special, specific, a specific mission. But we are all doing this and God
8:51 says this in SURA number two. He said
8:54 (22:78) لِيَكُونَ ٱلرَّسُولُ شَهِيدًا عَلَيْكُمْ
8:56 So, the messenger will be a witness among you
8:59 (22:78) وَتَكُونُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ
9:01 and you be witnesses among the people.
9:05 This is in the Quran. Every one of you serve as witnesses, messengers. And the same word equally
9:13 used in that verse.
9:15 (22:78) لِيَكُونَ ٱلرَّسُولُ شَهِيدًا عَلَيْكُمْ وَتَكُونُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ
9:19 The messenger will serve as a witness among you and you serve as witnesses among the people. So, you
9:24 have a fantastic responsibility and I know you're doing it pleasantly and tirelessly.
9:33 The verse... the verse in SURA 40...Oh, this is in Mu'minûn. What is this?
9:41 Oh, yes.
9:42 ٱللَّهُ يَصْطَفِى
9:43 Yeah, I said that one.
9:44 This is in SURA 23
9:45 (22:75) ٱللَّهُ يَصْطَفِى مِنَ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ رُسُلًا
9:47 This is in the present tense.
9:50 Some people say that the inspiration or revelation ended by Muhammad. It's not true because this is in
9:57 the present tense. This is the final message. Everything is here. And we do not do anything
10:03 that is not here. But there is so much information here, it will keep coming until the end of the
10:08 world. Information that our parents did not know. Information that we do not know, and information
10:14 that our grandchildren only are destined to know. It's all in here. Nothing new, but it is all
10:21 in here including the end of the world and things that outrage the disbelievers.
10:26 The verse in SURA 40 that also explains this... this turned out to be a very important discussion here.
10:34 Ismail: Of course! What are you talking about?!
10:47 So, it may take time, but I'd like to read it correctly. It's right here.
11:14 It's very possible that I misplaced the verse, but I can't find it in SURA 40. But the
11:20 evidence is abundant that God uses, as you know, the Quran is mostly in the past tense
11:27 because God is telling us things in our future that are not future to God. They're
11:32 past as far as God is concerned. So, most of the Quran is in the past tense but when
11:38 it comes to selecting messengers, plural, in the Quran, it is in the present tense.
11:45 So, especially, in your case being the first... the first group, the pioneers of restoring
11:53 all God's messages of the past, you have a special responsibility. There are many many messengers and
12:00 this also confirms or is confirmed by the verse in Quran that says "there is not a village that does not
12:10 have a messenger." So, this tells us how many messengers there are. But this incident that Carlos
12:16 asking about, just gives me a specific responsibility and makes us know precisely
12:25 what the deal is. Cause if you... if we are, if we are believers in the Quran,
12:32 we read in SURA 3, verse 81 that after all the prophets have come, after all the
12:40 prophets have come including Muhammad as you see in later on, God set a trap on the disbelievers.
12:49 After all the prophets have come, a messenger will come to confirm them. This is an established
12:55 Quranic fact. And if we are believers in the Quran, we have to be open to this. Not only open to
13:03 this, we have to know that there will be a messenger who will come and confirm all the prophets.
13:07 and we will have no aversion at all to this idea. In fact, we'll expect it and we'll agree with it
13:13 readily. We happen to be the lucky generation or the fortunate generation that witnesses the
13:18 fulfillment of this verse and I'm talking as, as one of you. You know, I distinguish in the Quran
13:24 between Muhammad, the messenger, and Muhammad, the man. And I'm telling you Rashad, the man, is very excited
13:30 about all the information that comes, so Rashad, the messenger. I'm just... I'm just... Along with you I cry and
13:38 I'm excited and they see me jump up and down in the mosque when the information comes and we all
13:46 jump together. Because it is just beautiful. God is teaching us and we are very fortunate to be born
13:52 now, at this time. Yeah, it sounds right. What does it say, Mohtasham?
14:11 Yes.
14:14 Exactly. Yeah, this is it.
14:20 Exactly. So, as you see the Quran goes out of its way to mention this
14:25 in the present tense because it is a continuous process until the
14:29 end of the world. Every village, every community is going to have messengers.
14:35 Look at Leila Intefaq. See. She is a messenger of God. When she goes to her college and she talks to
14:41 the people about God or worshipping God alone, she is a messenger of God and nobody can dispute that.
14:48 So, I hope this clarified the... and this is why you see the opposition vicious as they are,
14:54 they never never said Muhamma. is the last messenger. They cannot say that. They
14:58 know it's a fabricated lie. This is why they didn't come up with it. That's right. All they're trying
15:04 to do is that his name is not Rashad.
15:06 Ismail: They are trying to discredit you.
15:10 But they cannot come up with
15:11 any fact or any proof. They can only call me names which is exactly what the Quran says
15:19 and it is really miraculous. It is really miraculous. They called me the names that the
15:25 Quran says, specifically. It's like, you know, God is showing us that He knows what they're going to say.
15:33 Where I get this telegram from Ahmad Deedat addressed to Rashad Khalifa, AL-KAZZAB. OK. This is in
15:40 English, but he writes the Arabic word that is in the Quran. OK. And then we read in SURA, in SURA 38
15:49 and in SURA 54 the same word. They say "how come in all of us, he's the one who's getting the message
15:59 and inspiration. He is KAZZAB." And then God goes on in Quran and says "they will find out tomorrow who
16:06 is the KAZZAB." But they had to... I mean this is Western Union folks. OK. And they wrote down
16:12 K A Z Z A B. OK. It's not an English word. But it's exactly what God wrote in the Quran in SURA 38 and in SURA 54.
16:22 Ismail: Except that God spelled it correctly.
16:25 Exactly. It's KATHAB (کذاب) not KAZZAB (کزاب). They cannot do that.
16:30 But it's ironic. So, as you know, the minute the person calls you names, they lost the argument. They have
16:36 no evidence. When they start calling you "stupid" and this kind of thing. Then, you know they lost the argument.
16:46 Ismail: OK. We have time for a couple more questions.
16:49 Brother Azhar has...
16:52 Azhar: I just want you to come back on... there are a lot of verses that say the messenger has been destined to prevail, so that Islam will prevail over all religions. Can you just come back on that?
17:06 This is a prophecy in SURA number 9 and SURA number
17:09 48, that Islam will prevail over all religions and will go to all corners of the world.
17:17 And I believe... not I believe that... I know that. You know, this will happen. And IN SHA ALLAH, it will happen in our
17:24 generation. Brother Edip, yesterday, said that SURA 110 that talks about
17:31 (110:1) إِذَا جَآءَ نَصْرُ ٱللَّهِ وَٱلْفَتْحُ
17:32 When God's victory comes
17:36 and you see the people embracing God's religion in great numbers
17:41 (110:3) فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَٱسْتَغْفِرْهُ ۚ
17:42 Glorify your Lord and seek His forgiveness.
17:45 (110:3) إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ تَوَّابًۢا
17:46 These are 19 words. The generation before us know nothing about 19. We
17:52 are the generation of 19 and we are the generation that will witness this great victory IN SHA ALLAH.
17:58 And this is why this is the new world that did not receive a message before.
18:04 All the messengers came in the Middle East. So, the message had to come here to America. And
18:12 it is going to Japan. You just look at Naoko there. See, Naoko. Why did God send person from...?
18:20 Are you from Tokyo, Naoko? Are you from Tokyo or where else? From Tokyo. From the heart of Japan. So, you know
18:27 that the message will go there. And now when Naoko goes back, there's going to be true Japanese believers.
18:33 I think that's the last frontier and it will be in fulfillment of this prophecy of SURA 9 or SURA 48.
18:40 Ismail: Don't forget Mexico and Latin America.
18:48 We have the whole world covered. I think we'll have a break before lunch.