Quran Study From Behrouz 515 Sura 54;23 By Rashad Sura 55 & Sura 56 & Sura 51 Age 40 & First Gen

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0:00 Dr. Khalifa: 23.

0:02 [54:23] Thamûd ...

0:04 another group of disbelievers

0:06 [54:23] ... rejected the warnings.

0:07 [54:24] They said, "Shall we follow a man like us? We will then be wrong and stupid.

0:15 25.

0:16 [54:25] "Was he chosen out of all of us to receive the message? He is a flagrant liar."

0:24 26.

0:25 [54:26] They will find out tomorrow who the flagrant liar is.

0:29 27.

0:29 [54:27] We sent the camel as a test for them. Just watch them and be patient.

0:35 28.

0:37 [54:28] Tell them, ...

0:37 This was directed to their messenger, Saleh.

0:41 28.

0:42 [54:28] Tell them that the water shall be shared between them at specific times.

0:47 29.

0:48 [54:29] They consulted their leader and after receiving the message, he slaughtered the camel.

0:54 [54:30] How terrible was my retribution and warnings.

0:58 31.

0:58 [54:31] We sent upon them one strike, whereupon they became like harvested hay.

1:04 [54:32] We have made the Quran easy to remember. Is there anyone who wishes to learn?

1:09 As you know, God's signs suited every age.

1:16 In that age, a camel that knew when to eat and when to drink on what day was a miracle for those people.

1:23 They were dealing with camels a lot.

1:25 At the time of Moses, magic was a big deal.

1:28 At the time of Jesus, healing the sick was a big deal.

1:34 At the time of Muhammad, the literary excellence was a big deal.

1:38 They had the literary competitions.

1:42 Now, the computer is a big deal, and now we have a computer miracle.

1:48 Computer, a miracle that is suitable for the computer age.

1:56 How can you divide the number that Abdullah did, when you take the number of verses

2:03 and put the number of each verse in every Sura in the Quran, you end up with a half-mile-long number.

2:14 12,692 digits.

2:18 This number of digits is a multiple of the common denominator of the Quran, the number 19.

2:24 And also that number is a multiple of 19.

2:30 When the Quran was revealed, the biggest number they heard of was a thousand.

2:33 That was the biggest number. Well, 50,000.

2:36 But then any multiples of thousand, anyway.

2:40 So, how can you read this number?

2:42 12,692 digits.

2:46 If you go to the mathematics department at the university, tell them "read this number." "Get out of here."

2:54 But it's true. The number is here, conforms to the code.

3:02 So, this is the computer age.

3:05 You have to have a computer to know about this number.

3:10 I can bring you the computer printout that Abdullah wrote in,

3:13 this thick papers,

3:17 just, just solving this one problem, about this one number, dividing it into 19, and it is divisible.

3:32 So during the time of Thamûd, the camel was the sign.

3:39 During the time of Moses, he threw down the staff and it became a serpent,

3:43 and swallowed the serpent, the, the other snakes of the magicians.

3:48 This is why they believed, because they realized this is no magician. They are the experts.

4:01 Before we go to the people of Lot, are there any questions?

4:06 Number 33,

4:08 [54:33] The people of Lot rejected the warnings.

4:12 [54:34] We showered them with rocks. Except Lot's family; we saved them at dawn.

4:19 [54:35] That was a blessing from us; we thus reward the appreciative.

4:25 [54:36] We had warned them of our strike, but they doubted the warnings.

4:31 [54:37] They negotiated with him about his guests; we had blinded their eyes. They have deserved my retribution and warnings.

4:42 [54:38] On the following morning, they were hit by devastating retribution.

4:47 [54:39] They have incurred my retribution and warnings.

4:51 [54:40] We have made the Quran easy to remember. Is there anyone who wishes to learn?

4:58 So, as you see consistently, the warnings, there are enough warnings followed by the retribution.

5:04 So, in other words, God is telling the people, you're neglecting your souls. You're neglecting yourselves. You're going to incur retribution.

5:17 The people of Lot were, were wicked homosexuals.

5:24 You're not doing the homosexuals any favor by giving them their "rights."

5:33 You have to talk them out of it, somehow.

5:38 The last 10 years, they have been demanding their rights until they got AIDS.

5:45 Because now you can't just take San Francisco and turn it upside down like Sodom and Gomorrah.

5:49 There are many good people in San Francisco.

5:53 Dr. Khalifa: But this AIDS hits selectively the homosexuals.

6:09 Martha: deserved my retribution and warning (unintelligible)

6:17 Dr. Khalifa: Well, if you're doing everything right, why should you be warned?

6:19 Martha: (unintelligible)

6:24 Dr. Khalifa: Which verse is that?

6:27 Martha: (unintelligible) 92. Incurred

6:30 Dr. Khalifa: I like "incurred" better than "deserved." (unintelligible). They have...

6:34 Martha: (unintelligible)

6:38 Dr. Khalifa: I don't know. I have to look it up. They have deserved my retribution and warnings.

6:44 Martha: (unintelligible) their retribution (unintelligible)

6:55 Dr. Khalifa: Well, if you're, if you're doing everything right, you don't deserve a warning.

7:02 As a matter, as a matter of fact, wherever you're working, you'll get a warning only before you get disciplinary action.

7:09 But if you're doing everything perfect, you don't get a warning, do you?

7:13 Dr. Khalifa: Warning! You're doing everything perfect.

7:18 Martha: (unintelligible)

7:28 Dr. Khalifa: In the new translation, I'm using the word "incurred" in place of "deserved."

7:34 Because we learn that people incur whatever happens to them.

7:40 Remember the law in the Quran, that nothing happens to you except as a consequence of your own actions?

7:46 Dr. Khalifa: Nothing happens.

7:49 Martha: Incur (unintelligible) retribution (unintelligible)

7:55 Dr. Khalifa: Did you ever get a warning where you work

7:57 Dr. Khalifa: that you, that there's something going?

7:59 Martha: Yeah, (unintelligible), And I understand, I can understand the idea (unintelligible) incurring (unintelligible)

8:08 Dr. Khalifa: It's okay. I don't care about linguistics as long as....

8:11 Martha: You incur (unintelligible)

8:14 Dr. Khalifa: The warning is a negative thing.

8:16 Yeah, warning, you're gonna be demoted next month.

8:21 That's negative, you know. Unless you straighten up, you're gonna be demoted.

8:30 That's, that's a negative.

8:37 Any other questions?

8:41 This is a, this is a, Sura is short, but it sure is full of lessons.

8:52 The Arabs have been warned.

8:54 I can tell you right now, we're gonna witness a terrible, terrible disaster coming up to the Arabs.

9:03 Today in the mail, I just got a newspaper where they had the headlines telling them

9:07 that they're not following the Quran. They received the warnings.

9:17 This time they didn't put my negative. They put the real picture.

9:24 They're calling me names and everything, but at least they didn't put the negative.

9:34 So, they received warnings.

9:45 I don't know what will happen, but the Quranic teachings point at a, a terrible disaster happening to the Arab world.

9:53 Of course, they have been, they have been incurring a lot of humiliation, problems in the last 40 years.

10:00 But now the warnings have been really concentrated to them.

10:10 Dr. Khalifa: They have been told that every single mosque does not uphold the commandments of the Quran, not, not a single one.

10:20 Dr. Khalifa: So, we'll see. A woman: (unintelligible)

10:21 Dr. Khalifa: Hmm?

10:22 A woman: You say, they have been told.

10:23 Dr. Khalifa: Uhum.

10:25 A woman: How?

10:27 Dr. Khalifa: I just got a newspaper that is very popular there, and there's quite a prominent display of the warnings

10:38 Dr. Khalifa: in there. It's not the first time either.

10:43 Martha: (unintelligible)

10:45 Dr. Khalifa: Which newspaper?

10:46 Martha: (unintelligible)

10:48 Dr. Khalifa: Warnings that the, that the Islam they're following has nothing to do with the Quran or the prophet Muhammad.

10:53 Martha: (unintelligible)

10:55 Dr. Khalifa: Yeah, yeah, Allewaa Al Islami (اللواء الإسلامي), it's called.

11:03 Dr. Khalifa: But it's been in almost every newspaper over there.

11:07 Martha: (unintelligible)

11:09 Dr. Khalifa: Magazines, big, the most famous magazines.

11:11 Martha: (unintelligible)

11:14 Dr. Khalifa: The average Egyptian heard about the miracle of the Quran at least, yeah.

11:19 Martha: (unintelligible)

11:25 Dr. Khalifa: Yeah.

11:26 Martha: (unintelligible)

11:27 Dr. Khalifa: You met the wrong people.

11:28 Martha: Yeah, though I didn't meet many (unintelligible)

11:40 Dr. Khalifa: Yeah, it's been, it's been really intense.

11:43 It's been intense.

11:46 Dr. Khalifa: Publications and the warnings, and everybody heard about it, almost. Martha: It has

11:49 Martha: (unintelligible)

11:53 Dr. Khalifa: No, it's been in Akheru Sa'a (آخر ساعة). You know what Akheru Sa'a looks like, Rosol Yusuf. A woman: Yeah.

11:57 I have the copies here.

12:02 Dr. Khalifa: Al-Ahram (الأهرام), Ahram (أهرام), every day in Ramadan, they publish something, for the last three years.

12:09 Martha: One of my, I don't know, my brother in-law (unintelligible)

12:15 in a very (unintelligible)

12:22 Martha: I remember having talked to (unintelligible)

12:30 Dr. Khalifa: Right.

12:31 Lisa: You know, Martha, you can also have Christians who read the Bible daily

12:37 about Christ, and Christ says repeatedly in the Bible that he's the son of man.

12:45 The whole message, basically, revolves around worshiping God alone

12:48 There are a few distortions in the message there, but they don't get it.

12:51 Lisa: It's probably the same thing.

12:54 Martha: I just (unintelligible) distortions, you know. The more I find myself looking and questioning into them, the more I find them.

13:00 Dr. Khalifa: But everything you told us, Martha: (unintelligible)

13:02 Dr. Khalifa: everything you mentioned, Martha....

13:04 Martha: I was just recently (unintelligible)

13:07 Martha: the whole thing, the whole thing is about, based on Jesus Christ.

13:12 "We have Jesus Christ. Salvation through Jesus Christ."

13:15 It's just, you know, I always thought it was just, you know, one or two really famous ones,

13:19 like none should come to Father except through the son

13:22 (unintelligible)

13:23 Martha: or else (unintelligible).

13:31 Dr. Khalifa: Well, the epistles are now they, they, they have a Jesus conference every year.

13:37 And they, they announced that only the first two epistles are correct, the rest are junk, they said.

13:44 They have no confidence in them.

13:45 Dr. Khalifa: So, so, but if you look at the Gospels, look at the Gospels, the majority is truth.

13:49 Lydia: You get 99% of Christians who'd never hear that either.

13:53 Lydia: sam as, Dr. Khalifa: Yeah.

13:54 Lydia: same as the Muslims, I mean, even if they hear it, Dr. Khalifa: Exactly.

13:56 Lydia: they won't hear it.

13:57 Lydia: And the Christians would, you know, if they heard somebody say that, they wouldn't hear it. Dr. Khalifa: Yeah.

14:01 Dr. Khalifa: They will not recognize it. Yes.

14:02 But it's in newspaper every year, the Jesus conference every year. In fact,

14:06 Dr. Khalifa: these most famous statements, they declared they were fake.

14:11 A woman: (unintelligible)

14:13 Dr. Khalifa: Like the one just mentioned "I'm the way. I'm the life and the way and this and that."

14:17 "None goes to the Father except through me." That's a fake one.

14:20 And this is coming out of the Christian scholars.

14:24 Martha: So, you (unintelligible) the Gospels, (unintelligible) majority?

14:29 Dr. Khalifa: 99% is truth.

14:32 For example, none of them says "Jesus, son of God" except John.

14:36 And in John, it is only four times. John is the most recent of the four.

14:41 Dr. Khalifa: But the other three don't say "Jesus, son of God."

14:44 Martha: And so, they are the ones who (unintelligible) the letters to Paul (unintelligible).

14:47 Dr. Khalifa: Those are epistles, yes.

14:48 Martha: (unintelligible)

14:51 Dr. Khalifa: They ruled that they are all fake except for the first two.

14:55 I forgot the names. If you read the book, Jesus, Lisa wrote, it gives a report on all of these.

15:03 Dr. Khalifa: Have you read that book?

15:04 Martha: (unintelligible)

15:07 Dr. Khalifa: We have an office copy, you can get there. We'll put you in there and lock you in and have you read it.

15:13 Dr. Khalifa: (unintelligible)

15:14 Are there any questions on these?

15:18 They're not to be, by the way, this Sura, this is the only Sura in the Quran,

15:24 this is a certain piece of information on the side from the computer facts,

15:31 this is the only Sura in the Quran where the name of God is in every verse.

15:35 At least once.

15:38 This Sura here,

15:40 the only one in the whole Quran where every verse has the name of the word "Allah", at least once.

15:45 Dr. Khalifa: Some of the verses have 4 of them.

15:47 A man: Is that what (unintelligible)

15:50 Dr. Khalifa: Say it again.

15:50 A man: 57 "God." 57 times.

15:54 Dr. Khalifa: Really? Oh, my goodness. A man: divisible.

15:58 Dr. Khalifa: Here's another piece of information.

16:03 So, these are the...

16:07 I mean, it's a blessing, yes.

16:08 See, what is happening

16:10 when there's a messenger, God is sending information to the whole group through the messenger.

16:16 And the messenger himself is benefiting from this information, so it will save us a lot of trouble if we, if we obey.

16:25 This includes the messenger and the people because this information is coming to everybody.

16:31 They actually, like, I see this in my last trip to Canada, for example.

16:42 I, I mentioned the issue of the age of 40.

16:46 And I assumed that everybody accepted it.

16:49 But they didn't. And I ended up wasting so much time on it.

16:53 And it's a blessing if the people have the understanding of, for example, this verse.

17:00 They'll be so comfortable if they have the conviction and understanding.

17:03 They will not waste so much time arguing back and forth.

17:08 "Why 40?"

17:09 "How can a person who's 35 go to Heaven who didn't do this and that?"

17:15 It's a piece of information that God sent to us and gave us the proofs and the evidence and the, a number from the Quran.

17:22 So, a person who has, who's blessed

17:24 God says, it's a blessing because it saves us a lot of time.

17:28 It's finished. It's closed.

17:29 When we say "God said, up to 40, everybody goes to Heaven.

17:35 "And here's the number in the Quran, and here are the proofs. Here are the signs." Then, then, we're convinced.

17:40 So, it's a blessing.

17:45 So, I appreciate the fact that this verse deals specifically with the disobedience to the messenger.

17:53 It's obedience in matters that have to do with God and information that's coming from God.

18:00 Note that it's not personal obedience.

18:04 It's obedience to God. It is the information that's coming from God.

18:10 And we have, in history, the history tells us they were having a battle or something and the prophet Muhammad said "let us camp here"

18:19 and they went to him and they said "is this message from you or from God? If it's God, we'll do that."

18:24 He said "no, it's from me." They said "this is a stupid idea."

18:27 (unintelligible) out of here.

18:30 So, once he said "it's from me", Ok, they were free to not, not, not obey.

18:36 So, the obedience is really to God.

18:39 This is actually written in history.

18:41 Then, we'll be all dead if we obey you.

18:44 Dr. Khalifa: And they did move on to some other place.

18:46 A woman: (unintelligible)

19:19 Dr. Khalifa: Ok. I agree with that.

19:21 A woman: (unintelligible)

19:24 Dr. Khalifa: Okay, we'll, we'll,

19:26 just we do have time for asking general questions.

19:30 "General questions."

19:35 (unintelligible)

19:38 Dr. Khalifa: Yes.

19:39 Mahmood Abib: Over here.

19:39 Dr. Khalifa: Oh, yes, oh my God.

19:42 Dr. Khalifa: Now, listen to this. Are you gonna get a (unintelligible). Yes. Thank you

19:45 Dr. Khalifa: for reminding me. A man: Yeah, (unintelligible)

19:47 Dr. Khalifa: The word, they said that Saleh, yeah, this is, it came out of their, their group and... The old timers will remember this.

19:55 They said... now Saleh, he said,

19:57 [91:13] ... "This is God's camel; ...

19:59 Let it be, have its own drink in some places.

20:04 And then, they slaughtered the camel.

20:06 So, the word, people under-aged, excuse us, but they said that they had sex with the camel.

20:12 Dr. Khalifa: (unintelligible)

20:14 A man: What?!

20:15 A woman: (unintelligible)

20:19 Mahmood Abib: (unintelligible) you're right.

20:22 Dr. Khalifa: Isn't this what they said? Where do you get that?

20:26 I said it didn't say, the word, they said "the word did not mean..."

20:30 They wanted a specific word, it means "slaughtering."

20:33 And actually, the word that's specific enough (unintelligible).

20:39 So, this is one of the examples of the conspiracies from the devil.

20:44 And they actually came back and they argued with me. They said "why did you translate this 'they slaughtered the camel?'"

20:52 So, we really are living the Quran.

20:54 Dr. Khalifa: Conspiracy is from the devil. Obviously, the devil gave them that idea.

20:59 Atif: Also, the people were reading from the... They were translating from the Quran in Arabic to English. They were not using this.

21:10 Dr. Khalifa: I think they used both, Arabic and English or they had some other translations.

21:14 Atif: And they were using it all together.

21:16 Dr. Khalifa: Yes. They have, actually even got their proof from that idea.

21:23 A man: (Unintelligible)

21:24 Dr. Khalifa: Martha, you know Arabic.

21:25 The word is "Aqaroo." Subsequently, they slaughtered the camel, rebelled against their Lord's command, and said, "O Sãleh, bring the doom you threaten us with, if you are really a messenger. (عَقَرُوا۟) [7:77]

21:28 And they wanted the word Zabahu (ذبحو),

21:29 It is slaughtering the camel.

21:33 So, the word in the Quran, what they did to the camel was slaughtering.

21:39 So, they said Aqaroo (عَقَرُوا۟) means "they're having sex with the camel, not killing it."

21:45 I mean, perverts.

21:50 That's what they are.

21:52 Conspiracies of the devil.

21:53 This is what happens

21:55 if we, if we separate ourselves from the believers, the wolf gets us.

22:03 Dr. Khalifa: Ok, back to Robert.

22:04 Robert: Ok.

22:07 Robert: Especially the part that God may make room for you.

22:09 Robert: Then, I thought, I thought that was in terms of...

22:11 Dr. Khalifa: Actually, it's happening now literally (unintelligible)

22:15 Dr. Khalifa: Did you find a place to sit down?

22:16 A man: (unintelligible)

22:17 Dr. Khalifa: Did you ask somebody to move?

22:19 A man: (unintelligible)

22:20 Dr. Khalifa: Did you have to ask somebody to move?

22:22 A man: No.

22:23 Dr. Khalifa: Great!

22:24 Dr. Khalifa: Ok, then it's possible for you, if he wants, he came, he comes in and finds that there's nobody,

22:29 and there's no room, ask them to make some room,

22:32 you can take it literal or... Jack Roberts said.

22:35 Dr. Khalifa: (unintelligible)

22:36 A man: Think of it as be kind to others.

22:38 Dr. Khalifa: Exactly.

22:39 A man: Be kind to others.

22:40 Dr. Khalifa: Exactly.

22:42 Dr. Khalifa: Be considerate to others. It's a general principle.

22:45 Dr. Khalifa: That is if you are nice to the people, do onto others like,

22:48 A man: (unintelligible)

22:49 Dr. Khalifa: and God will be kind to you,

22:50 Dr. Khalifa: if you are kind to the others. A man: (unintelligible)

22:53 Dr. Khalifa: If they all come and say "(unintelligible)"

22:57 Dr. Khalifa: Just being inconsiderate.

23:02 Robert: Is this why they did it?

23:03 Dr. Khalifa: Yeah, they're allying themselves with the enemies of God.

23:06 Actually, we have some examples of these.

23:13 People who, for example, ally themselves told me that somebody that goes to the Islamic Center.

23:23 In the Islamic Center, they're flagrant idol-worshipers, they don't devote their prayers to God alone.

23:31 And you know them. They anger God when they do this.

23:34 They will not accept, La Elaha Ella Allah. You go there and tell them La Elaha Ella Allah, they call you "Kafir (کافر)."

23:46 (unintelligible)

23:48 They're criticizing me for saying that Salman Rushdie should have his freedom of expression.

23:55 And in that letter they say "we agree to admire, we applaud the Catholic Church were making a stand against Salman Rushdie."

24:07 Now, this is a Islamic Center liking that.

24:10 They're attacking me and, and applauding the Catholic Church. Ok.

24:15 Now, I say "La Elaha Ella Allah." The Catholic Church says "praise Mary, mother of God."

24:23 So, it is not an issue of worshipping God. It's, it's politics or something.

24:28 How can they applaud the Catholic Church for anything?

24:31 Because the Catholic Church itself practiced the same thing that Khomeini practices.

24:35 They don't like people to write about their "Shroud of Turin" and all the nonsense that they have.

24:42 They have heavy censorship.

24:45 They, they excommunicate people right and left because of their opinions.

24:50 Dr. Khalifa: So, they are birds with

24:54 Lydia: feather.

24:55 Dr. Khalifa: birds with feather. (unintelligible)

24:57 Lydia: (unintelligible)

24:58 Dr. Khalifa: Right. And the Catholics...

25:00 Lydia: Exactly the same thing (unintelligible) in right ear and goes right out the other.

25:04 Lydia: So, you can just see how (unintelligible).

25:08 Dr. Khalifa: So, (unintelligible) you can see how, how will God look at people with this, applauding people who are saying

25:17 "praise Mary, mother of God."

25:19 (unintelligible) expression, "Mary, mother of God."

25:24 And condemning somebody who says "La Elaha Ella Allah" and worships God alone.

25:30 So, anybody who allies himself with those people, God is angry with them.

25:35 I mean, this is verse 15.

25:38 [58:15] GOD has prepared for them a severe retribution. Miserable indeed is what they used to do.

25:41 Robert: (unintelligible) there are those who ally themselves with people who have angered God.

25:47 Dr. Khalifa: Uhum

25:48 Robert: Ok.

25:48 A woman: (unintelligible)

25:53 Dr. Khalifa: We seek refuge in God from Satan.

25:57 Bism Allah Arrahman Arraheem.

25:59 In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

26:02 Tonight, we're starting at Sura 54.

26:07 55, excuse me.

26:09 And our teacher tonight will be Lori, right?

26:12 But before we start, I want to make some corrections.

26:16 In my Khutba today, I make some boo-boos sometimes.

26:20 Sometimes I say things that are not, appear to be not very tactful.

26:25 For example, we have, here, a great team of cake bringers or cake makers and when I asked, and Rahima was

26:33 Rahima's turn, Lori's turn, I said the best.

26:37 So, this, they're all, they're all great makers of cake, bringers of cake.

26:42 Dr. Khalifa: And this appears not to be tactful, but I had to explain to you that each believer is the best.

26:49 So, when I, when I say "the best", I'm referring to every single one of them.

26:55 Because they're all, I hope I don't make it worse.

27:00 No, honest, I...

27:02 Because you people are so special that every one of you is the best.

27:06 And when I say that, I, I just want to pay you the highest possible compliment without infringing on the other's properties,

27:18 Dr. Khalifa: that they are the best, each one of them.

27:22 A woman: (unintelligible)

27:26 Dr. Khalifa: Every single...

27:28 A woman: (unintelligible)

27:30 You don't describe your cake as the best when you brought it in?

27:36 Now, how do I get out of this one? Help!

27:41 Dr. Khalifa: I think I get out by saying "okay, take it over, Lori."

27:49 Lori: It was really a test for me, because I just wanted to know.

27:52 And I never understood the jinns. It's just like,

27:55 you know, I read it, and I needed to think, to think, and I knew because it was in the Quran, I had to believe it.

28:01 But I didn't know what they were, and nobody could explain it to me.

28:06 You know, and I got really wild explanations of what the jinns were.

28:11 And it always troubled me, then I just forced myself to submit.

28:16 And in the second chapter of the Quran where it says that

28:21 the believers are those who believe in the unseen, and this is part of the unseen.

28:26 And I knew that, IN SHAA ALLAH, at the time, that God would explain it to me.

28:32 And one of the blessings of being in this mosque is having things explained to us.

28:37 And as Rashad said in the Khutba today "it's the mercy from God that He sends a messenger from among us to explain to us."

28:45 The knowledge is here in the Quran, and all of us have read the Quran.

28:49 You know, I read it once a month from front to back, and every time there's something new.

28:55 And we get what we need at the time we need it.

29:00 And we, in this mosque, are just developing so far. It's just amazing.

29:04 You know, Rashad and Lisa and Hasan went to Canada, and there were the people believed the way we do,

29:10 they're still way behind us in the knowledge, because we're here every Friday night, learning and studying.

29:16 We have the input of all these believers here

29:19 and learning and studying. We have the input of all these believers here.

29:24 And we have a messenger that is given the knowledge that is passed on to us.

29:29 Lori: And we're responsible for the information in this mosque.

29:32 Dr. Khalifa: This Sura was directed to the humans and the jinns.

29:35 Well, there were two kinds of creatures,

29:39 creatures that sided with Satan completely, the jinns,

29:44 and the creatures that did not, were, were neutral, didn't make a stand with God. That's you and me.

29:51 (unintelligible) God decided to give us the body of clay, originally of the same material as the earth.

29:59 We are earth now.

30:01 But the jinns have a body of fire, fire. It's the difference.

30:06 We are in dimensions and they are in different dimensions.

30:10 Because the agreement called for Satan to remain invisible, just like God is invisible.

30:15 Satan wanted to whisper to us while being invisible.

30:21 Therefore, they had to be made of a different material in a different dimension.

30:26 Also, the jinns, they're made from energy. It gives them the abilities to travel

30:35 a lot faster than the speed of light, millions of times the speed of light.

30:38 They can go to the outer limit of our universe, 26 billion light years.

30:44 So, this gives them more, more to see, more evidence.

30:49 Therefore, God is giving them more evidence because they are, they made a hard stand against God.

30:55 So, when they go to Hell in the Hereafter, it seems like this whole, this whole life is really to nullify the excuses

31:06 of the humans and the jinns, the creatures who did not make a firm stand on God's absolute authority.

31:15 In other words, had God listened to the angels initially and said, okay, all those who didn't make a stand

31:22 on My absolute authority are banished, are out. Go to Hell,

31:27 they would have said "oh, you didn't give us another chance. We didn't know how bad Hell is. You didn't give us warnings."

31:34 So, this life is designed so that when the people insist, that the jinns insist on going to Hell, they will not be able to say that.

31:43 They will not be able to say "you didn't give us a chance. You didn't give us warnings. We didn't know what we were doing.

31:51 "If You told us how bad it is here in Hell, we would have made a different..."

31:55 See, God told us everything, the humans and the jinns.

31:58 He told us how bad Hell is, how to get out of it, how to redeem ourselves, how to make it back to God's kingdom.

32:06 So, the jinns, because they have this strong stand, they are given a chance to see more of the universe,

32:14 and to convince them to redeem themselves.

32:19 We were wishy-washy and this is the extent that we need to make that decision and to redeem ourselves.

32:26 Dr. Khalifa: We have these different bodies.

32:30 A woman: Can they read the scripture, too?

32:32 Dr. Khalifa: This is it.

32:33 A woman: They can read the same thing?

32:34 Dr. Khalifa: Of course.

32:35 A woman: Oh.

32:37 Dr. Khalifa: We have, did we see, there was, there was one show on the Today's show before the elections.

32:43 (unintelligible).

32:47 And they had this magician, a fellow who uses jinns, I'm sure.

32:52 And before the elections, two weeks before the elections, on the show,

32:56 they decided to put, he said "I'm going to put in this envelope who's going to win the elections and how many votes."

33:06 And he sealed the, the envelope. That was two weeks before the elections.

33:10 And he said "on the election day, the next day, they will open the envelope and they will see

33:16 "that he wrote down two weeks back, two weeks ago, who won the elections and how many votes."

33:23 Now, how will he do that?

33:25 Can you guess?

33:26 Dr. Khalifa: What did they do?

33:28 A woman: They (unintelligible) they, they (unintelligible) Dr. Khalifa: No.

33:32 A woman: So, what did they do?

33:33 Dr. Khalifa: Ok. They, they don't know the future. The jinns don't know the future. They're just like us.

33:38 But what they did, they waited until the newspaper came out and they said

33:41 "Reagan won and here are the number of votes." Then, they go in the envelope and they write.

33:46 Dr. Khalifa: That's right. That's how they do it.

33:49 A woman: What were (unintelligible)

33:50 Dr. Khalifa: Because this is the number of votes.

33:51 A woman: You know that

33:52 A woman: at the end of the day... Dr. Khalifa: So, what I'm saying, what I'm saying is they go into closed, while it's closed and read it.

33:56 A woman: But tell me this now

33:58 Dr. Khalifa: They have x-ray vision A woman: (unintelligible) on the news,

34:00 A woman: on the news, they showed pictures of Mars and this is why they said that the Russians (unintelligible)

34:05 that they found two faces on Mars and they thought it was a shadow.

34:10 A woman: So, they did a close-up and then they did a computer enhancement and saw teeth,

34:16 A woman: their eyes and then a teeth, they understood. Dr. Khalifa: No.

34:18 Dr. Khalifa: No. A woman: But I'm saying,

34:19 A woman: I'm thinking about this then Dr. Khalifa: Somebody made that up.

34:21 A woman: Now, wait a minute. First thing I thought about, Rashad, (unintelligible)

34:24 A woman: Rashad would say, the jinns went there because they can leave (unintelligible). Dr. Khalifa: (unintelligible)

34:29 A woman: Right. And they can go up there and plant these things for us to see. And they prove to us (unintelligible).

34:34 Dr. Khalifa: No.

34:35 A woman: And while we're busy worrying about this little thing on Mars, they sneak up, you know what I'm saying?

34:41 Dr. Khalifa: They have (unintelligible). They cannot do anything without God's will.

34:46 So, if God wants us to be fooled in that way, He will allow it.

34:50 But they cannot slap you in the face, for example.

34:53 They're sitting there and (unintelligible). First of all, each one of us has one.

34:58 Those are not free yet.

35:01 And then, there are the ones that have been freed of the dead people, our grandparents.

35:06 They come here regularly and listen to Quranic studies.

35:09 It is recorded in the (unintelligible).

35:11 There's a person that says "some jinns heard the Quran and went to their families and friends and told them "we heard a wonderful Quran.""

35:24 So, this is one. We have this kind of body and the jinns that kind of body.

35:30 (unintelligible).

35:34 This says "use me, O Lord, in Thy work."

35:38 And in parentheses, especially, in an advisory capacity.

35:46 Okay, anything else? There was something here about death.

35:51 I want you to think of death as getting rid of this lousy body

35:56 and getting a new body that does not get sick or die.

36:01 That's what death is, smooth from stage to stage.

36:05 And usually it happens when you're sick and tired of this one.

36:09 And you want a new one.

36:28 Dr. Khalifa: (unintelligible). You see, the balance in number seven can be understood by different generations, but now we understand the environmental balance, for example.

36:39 Why do we have so many rabbits? What do they reproduce so much?

36:42 The wilderness.

36:45 You see, the foxes need food.

36:47 There's an environmental balance. Foxes.... The coyotes did not need the rabbits to be invaded.

36:54 There are hundreds of rabbits right here.

36:57 So, I mean, this is a type of balance, well known.

37:02 It was studied in school.

37:04 (unintelligible) that there was some biological balance in the world.

37:09 But this balance covers everything.

37:16 And worrying has to do with cheating.

37:19 It's a very important commandment. So,

37:21 Prophet Shu‘aib was sent just for that particular commandment, not to cheat in trading.

37:29 When we break this commandment, it costs us a lot.

37:35 You cheat in paying your rent, collecting your rent, doing your work, or whatever, it will cost you a lot, more than you cheat.

37:50 So, this is God's commandment. It's one of the very important commandments.

37:54 I believe what is an ideal person in honesty and truthfulness.

38:08 Okay, if there are no questions, we'll go to 37.

38:13 A woman: What would that mean?

38:16 Dr. Khalifa: The sky is blue now, right? A woman: Right.

38:18 Dr. Khalifa: So, the Hereafter will be pink,

38:20 will be rosy. It will be almost like Cherie's blouse, a little lighter.

38:27 With a beautiful sky at the sunset or the sunrise.

38:30 So, they studied (unintelligible).

38:35 Psychologists, psychiatrists said that the most peaceful color is this, this color

38:40 In fact, they suggested that people who are tense to get a piece of this color (unintelligible) for a couple of minutes.

38:48 The sky will be like that on the Day of Judgement.

38:56 By the way, Laurie mentioned substitution of the earth with a new earth, the heavens with the new heavens

39:04 And we see this in the Old Testament and the New Testament as well.

39:08 Most of the prophecies, in the Old Testament, are in the book of Isaiah.

39:12 And if you want to put this (unintelligible) and put down Isaiah 65:22, it talks about substitution of a new heaven, a new earth.

39:22 65:22 Isaiah. Also, in 66:7.

39:29 66:7

39:31 That's the very end of the book of Isaiah.

39:34 And also in the New Testament, you find it in the second book of Peter 3:13.

39:40 3, the verse number is 13.

39:44 Both of them talk about substitution of a new heaven, new earth.

39:49 The Quran and the Old Testament.

39:51 The Old Testament and the New Testament and the Final Testament are identical in that respect.

39:58 This is, this is one fact that God wants you to know.

40:01 On the Day of Judgement, the color of the sky is going to be rosy.

40:16 Is this something about Mars?

40:23 I remember one of the cameras that went to Mars (unintelligible).

40:33 You know, the reason our sky is blue is the diffraction of the light.

40:38 You know, (unintelligible).

40:42 And the blue happens to hit the atmosphere of the earth at such an angle that it gets deflected.

40:48 (unintelligible)

40:50 So, this is God's design.

40:53 So, it's blue. Now if the...

40:55 If the sunlight becomes a little, changes just the angle hitting the atmosphere, some other color will be deflected.

41:03 Dr. Khalifa: It's a very simple matter.

41:06 A man: The reason we see the sunset as being pinkish or red is because of the sun (unintelligible)....

41:17 A man: .... that it's the reflection of the sun (unintelligible). Dr. Khalifa: Right.

41:22 A man: And say, you know, (unintelligible)

41:27 Dr. Khalifa: Also, the deflection is different, at sunrise and sunset.

41:31 I'm glad you brought this up.

41:35 There's a deflection and reflection and diffraction.

41:42 When you go fishing and you put a stick in the water, you see the stick go like this.

41:49 It's a great stick, but you can see it's called...

41:54 I forget now (unintelligible), reflection, diffraction and all those terms.

42:00 But the sunlight hits the earth atmosphere and this happens to it.

42:04 It depends on which angle, which light (unintelligible) This is what changes the colors.

42:11 So anyway, one of the things that God wants us to know is that the sky is rosy.

42:17 It's very pleasant only to the believers, pleasant to the believers.

42:26 Laurie: In verse 39, we're told that on the Day of Resurrection that neither jinns nor humans will be asked about their sins because it won't be necessary.

42:37 We know from other verses in the Quran that everything that we've done in our lifetime has been reported

42:43 by reporters that are honest and never miss anything at all.

42:48 And it's recorded and we know now with the development of the videotape that that's what it's going to be like.

42:56 We can see everything exactly as it was as it took place.

43:00 Everything we said, all the thoughts that we had, everything we did will be recorded.

43:05 And for those of us who are fortunate enough to have developed our souls to the extent

43:10 that we're worthy of having our sins remitted, we'll have the power to edit our tapes, which will be so nice.

43:17 And everybody else won't.

43:20 And we've been told in many verses in the Quran that we don't have to even...

43:24 We won't even be asked about our sins because everything will testify to them, our skin, you know, everything will...

43:31 We've been reporting everything that we've done all this time.

43:34 A man: (unintelligible)

43:41 Dr. Khalifa: I don't know if he knows that. (unintelligible).

43:47 See verse 40 says, well, 39...

43:55 Verse (unintelligible)

43:57 "We won't be asked..." Oh, 39, yeah.

44:00 [55:39] Humans or the jinns will not be asked for their sins.

44:04 Nobody will need to ask anybody about anything because the believers develop their souls

44:11 and the disbelievers fail to develop their souls.

44:14 And in Sura 17, we're told that the differences in the Hereafter, I mean...

44:19 In this room, the differences in our sizes are within a few inches.

44:24 But in the Hereafter, the differences will be like the difference between a mouse and the city of New York, city of Tucson, let's say.

44:32 So, when you see somebody the size of the city of Tucson, he or she has developed the soul sufficiently.

44:39 This is why they will be able to come closer to God.

44:42 When you see somebody the size of a mouse, you don't need to ask, you know "what did you do wrong?"

44:48 You know, that is...

44:49 This is why nobody will need to ask anybody for their sins.

44:54 It is so obvious.

44:57 There'll be no question.

44:58 Also in Sura 17, we're told that everybody will be the judge for him or herself for the sins.

45:04 Because in that dimension, we will see what we really look like, how much we really develop, and how much we lack development.

45:15 So, 41,

45:17 [55:41] The guilty will be recognized by their looks;...

45:20 They'll be undeveloped. They'll be shrunken.

45:24 It's like being born without arms and legs, deformed.

45:28 They will be born into the Hereafter deformed, undeveloped, aborted.

45:36 But they'll be alive. They will (unintelligible).

45:39 Very alive, Not well.

45:46 Also, God lets us understand, as Laurie explained about 44, how they will try to sneak into Heaven and they'll find it worse than Hell.

45:57 They will sneak into the Lower Heaven.

46:00 They'll find it worse than Hell, because they do not stand to come any closer to God.

46:08 See, God takes it completely up to us, completely.

46:11 This is why God does not inflict an atom's weight of injustice.

46:15 It's absolutely up to you. You can be as close to God as you want

46:20 in the High Heaven, or you can be as far from God as you want.

46:25 It's completely up to us.

46:27 So, the conclusion is that God does not put a single person in Hell.

46:32 It is the people who insist or choose, and they insist on going to Hell.

46:38 The whole thing will be automatic in the Hereafter.

46:42 This is why it is important to do, for example, the five Prayers a day.

46:48 You don't do the five Prayers every day, you are in trouble.

46:51 That's the minimum that you can do.

46:54 Because those are the meals for the real person.

47:00 Just imagine if you don't feed... your body is dry and you don't feed it and run for two months.

47:05 What will your body look like?

47:08 There is no death in the Hereafter.

47:11 Just imagine not eating for two months.

47:15 And the people out there in the street, they don't feed their soul for years and years and years.

47:22 Can you imagine what they look like? Can you imagine what they look like?

47:25 Just bring it to our dimension here and think of bodies that didn't eat for years.

47:32 You see those skeletal pictures of the starving people in Central Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan?

47:39 What do they look like? You can see their ribs, the shank, the skin and bones.

47:47 And this happens to the soul. The soul is not fed.

47:50 The five meals every day.

47:54 [55:41] The guilty will be recognized by their looks;....

48:02 You can tell who is starving in Africa and who is not by looking at them.

48:08 In the Hereafter, you'll be able to know who is starving and who is not.

48:14 Except it will be by choice.

48:18 Dr. Khalifa: So, now I'll go back to Laurie and number 46, the Higher Heaven. Laurie: Yes.

48:24 Laurie: [55:46] For those who reverence the glory of their Lord, there will be two Paradises.

48:29 [55:47] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

48:31 [55:48] With abundant vegetation.

48:33 [55:49] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

48:36 [55:50] Two springs run freely therein.

48:39 [55:51] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

48:41 [55:52] They will have two kinds of every fruit.

48:43 [55:53] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

48:46 [55:54] They will relax on furnishings lined with silk, while the fruits of the two gardens are brought near.

48:51 [55:55] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

48:54 [55:56] They will have magnificent spouses therein, never before touched by any human or jinn.

49:00 [55:57] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

49:02 [55:58] They will look like gems and coral.

49:05 [55:59] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

49:08 [55:60] Is the reward of righteousness anything but the best blessing?

49:11 [55:61] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

49:18 A woman: Action.

49:20 Dr. Khalifa: Verse 13, I have some very good news for you.

49:26 I'm not flattering you. You are very, very special people.

49:30 You've got to go to the Highest, Highest, Highest Heaven. I'm gonna explain to you why.

49:36 When Abraham started the religion of Islam, according to God's instructions, he and the people around him were worshipping God alone.

49:48 And as time went by, Satan sneakily and gradually added idol worship until the time of Muhammad came.

49:58 Some centuries later, by the time Muhammad came, they were worshipping lots of idols,

50:06 Allaat, Manaat, Al-‘Uzzah and all that. They were in the Ka‘bah that Abraham built.

50:12 And you've read how many verses in Quran that say "Abraham was never an idol worshipper."

50:16 And yet there is the Ka‘bah that he built that was full of idols.

50:21 And then, God renewed the message, sent the Quran to Muhammad,

50:26 and sent Muhammad to tell the people "the idols are bad. Worship God alone. Worship God alone." So, what happened?

50:32 Now, Muhammad and his company were persecuted severely.

50:36 They threw on them all kinds of dirt and bones.

50:42 Then, they banished them when they grew.

50:45 There were about 10 or 15 people for about 3 years.

50:49 Then, they grew to about maybe 25 or 30 people.

50:53 Then, they thought they were getting too strong. So, they banished them out of Mecca, boycotted them.

50:59 Now, and those people were abused.

51:03 So, those have to have a special place in Heaven.

51:08 They went against the current.

51:09 They were worshipping God alone in an ocean of idolatry.

51:14 You can easily see that they are very special people.

51:18 They will be in the highest place in the High Heaven.

51:21 Because even within the High Heaven and the Low Heaven, there'll be ranks.

51:26 Ok, now, 20 years ago, you see how it says here "few from the later generations," the later generations after Muhammad.

51:37 1400 years after Muhammad, there is not a single mosque in the Muslim world that was worshipping God alone.

51:44 That is upholding the commandment "the mosque belongs to God. You shall not mention other names with God."

51:54 And then God renewed the message, right now.

51:59 And the message went loud and clear, ringing throughout the whole world "worship God alone. Say "La Elaha Ella Allah"",

52:05 not "La Elaha Ella Allah Muhammad Rasulallah."

52:08 And "devote yourself to God alone. Uphold the commandments of the Quran. Purify your worship. Your Prayer is wrong,

52:15 Your fasting is wrong. Your Zakat is wrong."

52:19 These are, these are all blessings from God that He sent to our generation.

52:24 And again, we are subject to the same persecution, the same ridicule, lucky us.

52:35 Yours truly cannot go into any country in the Middle East. I'll be shot within 24 hours.

52:41 Just stabilize it.

52:43 And if you go to the Middle East, you better disown me. I'm asking you to do that.

52:47 I mean, God says, even disown God, if you are under those circumstances, as long as your heart is filled with faith.

52:55 If you don't wanna get into trouble, you better tell them "I don't know Rashad Khalifa" on purpose.

52:59 But this is... you are very, very special people.

53:05 You've gone through the mill of ridicule and mocking.

53:11 Today, Tasneem calls you from New York, and she was talking to some relatives of her in Chicago, who are very active in the so-called Islamic Center.

53:19 And she told them "I'm devoting myself to God alone. I only say "La Elaha Ella Allah."

53:25 And guess what they said?

53:26 They said "Tasneem went to the dogs."

53:30 She's worshiping God alone.

53:32 I mean, this is ridicule, right? They ridiculed her.

53:36 You know, you're saying "La Elaha Ella Allah." You're saying "worship God alone."

53:40 "You mean, God alone. That's all you have, God?"

53:43 I mean, do you see the logic? They're ridiculing her.

53:47 Mahmood was working the other night, and some so-called Muslims walked in the store.

53:53 And they saw the label, it says "Muhammad" on Mahmood, on the label.

53:57 They said "are you a Muslim?"

53:58 He said "yes."

53:59 They said "how come we don't see you at the mosque?"

54:02 He said "how come I don't see you at the mosque?"

54:08 So, they said "oh, you mean, you go to that mosque?"

54:12 Because the mosque that worships God alone, right?

54:15 Now, Noah, if you remember in the Quran, Noah said, cause Noah was building the ark, with the

54:21 flat, float, whatever you call it, water raft.

54:28 And they were laughing at him.

54:29 And he told them, he said "you're laughing at me, but I'm really laughing at you."

54:32 And that's what Mahmood was actually doing in the store.

54:35 Because they said "oh, we never believed in mathematics.

54:39 A woman: Oh, God.

54:42 Now, on that day, they probably had an exam in calculus, right? In university.

54:48 And they had to follow the formulas and the equations, and otherwise they would flunk.

54:55 So, they believe in mathematics.

54:57 But if it comes to God and the Quran, and worshiping God alone, they don't believe in mathematics.

55:02 So, they were looking at Mahmood, you know, ridiculing him, and of course, in his heart, he knows "fool souls."

55:08 Just like Noah, he was ridiculing them.

55:12 Just like, I mean, he was laughing at them, just like they were laughing at him.

55:15 But this makes Mahmood a very special person.

55:19 This is what it means, "multitudes from the early generations."

55:24 We are the first generation of renewing the message.

55:28 And we see it very clearly. Every one of us is in the light, and we can see it.

55:35 Just go in any mosque in the world and say "La Elaha Ella Allah," they will beat you up.

55:41 You are saying "worship God alone."

55:45 So, you can see what happens after centuries, from the first generation.

55:51 Abraham was a first generation.

55:54 And those people, I mean, they threw Abraham in the fire, right?

56:00 In those days, there was no America for Abraham to run to.

56:05 They threw him in the fire, so what did God do?

56:08 He turned the fire into a cool and safe place.

56:12 Because God, God says "do not think that I will abandon my messengers.

56:17 God creates exits for them.

56:20 So, the exit for Abraham was a cool and safe fire.

56:23 And the people who were with him, they were persecuted.

56:27 They had to be special people, because the easiest thing is to go along with the masses, with the crowds.

56:34 You think this shook Mahmood?

56:37 Not one hair.

56:39 And this is why he is very special.

56:40 I'm just using Mahmood as an example.

56:42 Muhtesem went to a grocery store to buy some Middle Eastern stuff.

56:47 And he met some Arabs there.

56:52 They're just totally ignorant. They know nothing.

56:55 But he says "yes, we saw too much in Tucson. We worship God alone."

57:00 And they almost beat him up.

57:02 If he wasn't big enough and strong enough.

57:06 And a Turk.

57:08 He would have been beaten.

57:10 So, why do you have to take all this abuse?

57:13 And all this ridicule. Do you think it shook him up? Did it affect his faith?

57:18 If anything, it strengthened his faith.

57:20 Because he knows that those people are off.

57:22 He knows they're ignorant.

57:24 He knows they're not worshipping God alone.

57:26 He knows they lost the Prayer. They probably never prayed.

57:29 These people, do you think they prayed?

57:32 Muhtesem: (unintelligible) Dr. Khalifa: Right. Right. They don't know?

57:38 Dr. Khalifa: They don't know? Muhtesem: (unintelligible)

57:52 Dr. Khalifa: And they don't know how many Suras are in the Quran. Muhtesem: (unintelligible)

57:55 Muhtesem: (unintelligible) Dr. Khalifa: All of them. They're missing this.

57:58 Dr. Khalifa: The Bashar couple. The Bashar's, they ridiculed them so many times.

58:05 "Do you really go to that mosque?"

58:09 And the answer is "show me a place where they worship God alone that I go."

58:14 "We go to that place."

58:16 I will go to that place.

58:17 Any place where they worship God alone, we'll go.

58:20 God is the One (unintelligible). God is the One who created you. God is the one who provides for you.

58:26 God is the One who controls your health, your welfare.

58:31 God is the One who controls your happiness.

58:33 God is the only One who controls your success.

58:37 Muhammad is dead. The saints are dead. Jesus is dead.

58:41 Powerless. Even when they were alive. They had absolutely no power.

58:49 So, (unintelligible).

58:53 Because you are going through. This is the first generation. We are,

58:57 We are so lucky.

58:58 We are a first generation, just like Abraham's generation, Muhammad's generation.

59:05 Muhammad's generation are ones who went through the ridicule, the abuse. And they had to leave their city, Mecca and go to Medina.

59:12 The persecution they went through. Because of this, God reserves a special place for them.

59:18 God is reserving a special place for us. I'm saying it by God's grace.

59:23 So, I have this very good news for you.

59:27 What you are, you fit here in verse 13. Multitude from the early generations.

59:32 In 50 years, I assure you, in 50 years, there'll be millions of people worshipping God alone, upholding the Quran alone and praying the correct way.

59:40 Millions. In just 50 years.

59:44 But they will be following the crowd.

59:46 They cannot be like you.

59:49 They will be protected by their numbers.

59:53 Right at this location, right here, there'll be thousands on this block, in this mosque.

59:59 And there'll be powerful, the people jumping on the wagons.

1:00:03 But they don't deserve the same position or the same credit as you.

1:00:12 So, this is what it means. "Multitude from the early generations, but only a few from the last generations."

1:00:19 Because these are the far ahead, in Arabic, Then there is the elite of the elite. (ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ) [56:10]

1:00:23 These will be the closest to God. They are very special.

1:00:27 And that is you.

1:00:29 And you start collecting benefits now.

1:00:34 And we've seen it. We have a history already. We have a track record in this mosque for 10 years.

1:00:39 We have a track record, a perfect track record.

1:00:43 In this life.

1:00:46 It's guaranteed by God.

1:00:49 You may have a pinch here and there, but it's because we make mistakes.

1:00:54 The tests are brief for you. But if you stray off the path, you know you're gonna get the pinch.

1:01:01 And you get the pinch and say "thank You, God", and come back to the path.

1:01:06 You are very special people.

1:01:10 You deserve a lot of congratulations.

1:01:14 God says in Sura 35 that the angels have wings, two, three, and four.

1:01:20 Two, three, and four, because the angels closest to God will be the most powerful, the highest in rank.

1:01:29 You'll have more wings. This is figuratively speaking.

1:01:34 And these Then there is the elite of the elite. (ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ) [56:10]

1:01:36 these far ahead people.

1:01:38 Like (unintelligible), you'll be there.

1:01:41 I mean, all those are angels, but still, they have ranks.

1:01:46 And 50 years from now, the thousands of people will be in this location, IN SHAA ALLAH. They will go to the High Heaven because they worship God alone

1:01:54 and they will pray the correct way. And they'll go to the High Heaven, but they cannot attain your rank, because you're the ones who are taking the abuse.

1:02:02 The people who take the abuse and the ridicule have a very special position in the Bible and in the Quran.

1:02:09 I had a little thing that I hang in there for a while that says "congratulations to those who are persecuted."

1:02:15 Well, the prophets also have been persecuted, remember that verse?

1:02:18 I had it hanging here.

1:02:21 And this is God telling you "congratulations."

1:02:24 (unintelligible)

1:02:27 So, we are very, very lucky. And I'm stressing, I keep stressing this, because I cannot stress it enough.

1:02:36 Just so we can thank God and be appreciative, so you know who you are.

1:02:42 Satan will always put doubts in your mind.

1:02:44 Always will tell you "you're nobody."

1:02:47 He hates your guts, okay?

1:02:51 Because it's going to be deep, deep in Hell.

1:02:54 You hear that, Iman?

1:02:55 You're asking about Satan and the Hereafter?

1:02:57 He will not be in Heaven, no.

1:02:59 He will not even come close.

1:03:02 He and his troops will be way deep down in the lowest pit of Hell.

1:03:08 And he'll be beating them and they'll be beating him.

1:03:12 They're gonna spend eternity doing that.

1:03:16 So, he will try to tell you "you're a nobody", but you speak back to him.

1:03:21 You tell him "I believe God."

1:03:24 And I believe that I am in this group, multitudes in the early generations.

1:03:27 Because this is a first generation.

1:03:32 I mean, I couldn't believe it myself.

1:03:35 For a long time just "it couldn't be just us here worshipping God alone. There must be millions in the world."

1:03:41 But I discovered that I'm naive, that the human being is really bad.

1:03:46 I was talking to my nephew, Sharif, in Egypt.

1:03:50 He said "I'm the only one in Egypt."

1:03:53 He really is a believer.

1:03:55 You can tell the people who believe, because they are in the light. They understand.

1:04:02 And he's the only one that I know in Egypt, (unintelligible).

1:04:05 He said "really, I believe."

1:04:08 IN SHAA ALLAH, he will come for the conference.

1:04:12 He's only 20.

1:04:16 He was born two weeks before Beth.

1:04:21 And he's the only believer in all of Egypt.

1:04:25 I mean, I was really naive.

1:04:27 I mean, I said "there must be millions in Egypt to worship God alone."

1:04:30 Nope.

1:04:32 Wrong.

1:04:33 So, this is why I'm speaking so strongly.

1:04:35 And I'm telling you "you're very special." And when Satan tells you "you're not", you tell him to shut up.

1:04:43 You're very special

1:04:45 This is the verse that talks about you.

1:04:49 Congratulations.

1:04:51 Dr. Khalifa: Yes. Dr. Sabahi: (unintelligible).

1:04:55 Dr. Khalifa: At this time

1:04:56 Dr. Khalifa: At this time, right now.

1:04:58 Dr. Khalifa: refers Muhammad's time, Ibrahim's time, and this time, our time. We are a first generation.

1:05:05 Right now.

1:05:06 Because we are the fortunate generation that is renewing God's message, restoring it, cleaning out all the junk and innovations.

1:05:16 When you go back to Iran you'll be, which town will you be in? Tehran?

1:05:25 I think you'll be the only one in Tehran who's praying the correct way, you and (unintelligible), the kids.

1:05:32 You'll be the one, and they'll laugh at you.

1:05:34 When you tell them, and they "Sharooz" "I just say the name of God alone."

1:05:38 "So, you mean, you don't mention Muhammad, or Ahlul Beyt or Ali?"

1:05:43 See, this is what we cleaned out.

1:05:46 We cleaned out all the creatures.

1:05:47 (unintelligible)

1:05:49 And this is restoring the religion. You are a first generation.

1:05:54 Dr. Khalifa: Does this make you special or not? When you're the only one in Tehran who's praying the correct way.

1:05:59 Lisa: How beautiful the Highest Heaven is.

1:06:01 We know, of course, that these are all allegorical descriptions that God uses allegory because there is no way

1:06:07 that we in our present state can even begin to understand really what is in store for us.

1:06:14 But we know from the allegory of the Highest Heaven that it is truly bliss.

1:06:21 And that it is wonderful beyond our dreams.

1:06:24 God says that anything we wish for, anything those who are in the Highest Heaven, IN SHAA ALLAH, we'll be there,

1:06:32 Anything they wish for and even more.

1:06:35 So, God's grace is even greater than anything we can comprehend or desire, wish for.

1:06:45 And then those on the right, those in the Lower Heaven, for them also, it's incredibly beautiful.

1:06:55 And it's peace.

1:06:57 [56:91] Peace to you from those on the right.

1:07:01 An incredible, incredible triumph to be among those on the right.

1:07:06 [56:92]. But if he is one of the rejecters, the strayers, [56:93] then the retribution [56:94] and burning hell.

1:07:16 We know, again, that we can't comprehend really the awfulness of hell.

1:07:24 We have a slight idea because we are as far from God as anything in the universe at this point.

1:07:33 And we know how hellish this world is and how awful it is, particularly when you step out of God's kingdom.

1:07:38 We're incredibly blessed to be in God's kingdom, IN SHAA ALLAH.

1:07:43 But as soon as you step out, you know what an incredible hell that is.

1:07:48 And that is nothing compared to the ultimate hell.

1:07:56 [56:95] This is the inevitable truth.

1:07:57 [56:96] You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.

1:08:04 Mã Shã Allãh

1:08:07 Are there any comments or questions on these last verses?

1:08:12 Dr. Khalifa: 88 and 89 refer to you, you special people.

1:08:19 And I say this with thanking God and God says "speak up of God's blessings on you."

1:08:24 We're very rare, fortunate, and blessed group of people.

1:08:29 And 90 refers to all the people who died before the age of 40.

1:08:37 It says, as, as...

1:08:40 [56:90] and if he belongs with those from the right -

1:08:44 Those people will be very happy.

1:08:48 Because they will go to the Lower Heaven.

1:08:51 God knew that they deserved... they do not deserve to go to hell. They deserve to go to the Lower Heaven

1:08:57 because of circumstances that only He knows.

1:09:01 That's why He took them at (unintelligible)

1:09:03 The children that came here to perform a function.

1:09:07 And they were assigned souls that God knows deserve to go to the Lower Heaven.

1:09:12 Well, they lived until the age of 39 or just before 40.

1:09:15 And then God takes them at that time.

1:09:18 Because had they lived, they would have been swept by circumstances.

1:09:27 Which brings me to a point that I will be talking about, IN SHAA ALLAH, in the Khutba two weeks from today, IN SHAA ALLAH.

1:09:37 Where very quickly, Ibrahim, God says "we granted Abraham his understanding, for we were fully aware of him."

1:09:47 Ok. This verse tells you it was not Abraham's intelligence that led him to discover God.

1:09:52 God granted him the understanding because God knew that Abraham deserved to go to the High Heaven.

1:10:01 And the other verse that I wish to share with you is Joseph. When Joseph almost fell for the governor's wife.

1:10:08 And then God said "if it were not that he saw a sign from his Lord."

1:10:12 Then, God says "we thus diverted sin from him.

1:10:15 So, was it Joseph who was so great that he didn't fall in sin? Or, was it God that protected him from sin?

1:10:21 It was God that protected him from sin.

1:10:23 By the way, the verse goes on and says,

1:10:25 She almost succumbed to him, and he almost succumbed to her, if it were not that he saw a proof from his Lord. We thus diverted evil and sin away from him, for he was one of our devoted servants. (إِنَّهُۥ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ) [12:24]

1:10:27 That he was one of our devoted servants.

1:10:30 Because he was one of God's devoted servants, God diverted him, protected him from sin.

1:10:37 So, what I'm saying is that when we agreed with Satan billions of years ago,

1:10:46 some of us were swept in the crowd.

1:10:49 And God knew that.

1:10:52 This is what God meant when he said to the angels. The angels said "put them all in hell."

1:10:57 And God said "I know what you do not know."

1:10:59 So, God knows that we were swept in the crowd. Some of us were swept in the crowd

1:11:03 and do not deserve to go to hell.

1:11:07 This is why God granted Abraham his understanding.

1:11:10 God granted you the fortune to come across the true message,

1:11:15 worshipping Him alone and upholding His word alone.

1:11:19 It's not because you're clever or because I'm smart.

1:11:23 It's because, apparently, God, not apparently, obviously God knew that some of us were swept

1:11:30 in the crowd somehow. And we agreed with Satan.

1:11:34 And we deserve the chance to come here to be redeemed.

1:11:40 So, the people who are taken, like Martin Luther King, taken only a few months before his 40th birthday,

1:11:47 Malcolm X, being taken two months before his birthday, his 40th birthday,

1:11:53 and all the other signs that we have seen.

1:11:56 In fact, if you look at verse 41, where you're holding the book now, you see in 41, it's the beginning of hell.

1:12:04 So, those of you who make the decision, we look in the previous Sura, verse 41.

1:12:10 Well, now we know, we know from this circle here that these numbers of verses are designed, divinely designed, for a reason.

1:12:17 And we have all these mathematical proofs.

1:12:20 Once you get into the age of 41, you'd better be worshipping God alone.

1:12:29 Just a second.

1:12:30 I don't wanna forget what I'm saying.

1:12:32 So, had God left Martin Luther King to live beyond the age of 40,

1:12:38 he would have been swept. That's the word that brought me to the next Khutba two weeks from now.

1:12:42 He would have been swept by his environment and his circumstances into maybe mentioning Jesus and things like that.

1:12:48 (unintelligible) He was a pastor in a church, I think.

1:12:52 But in his heart, and even vocally, he never said anything about Jesus.

1:12:56 Not that I heard of.

1:12:58 In his vast amount of recordings, he always talked about God.

1:13:02 So, this is why God chose to take him at that time

1:13:07 to protect him from going beyond to this number 41, and being swept by his environment and his circumstances into Christianity.

1:13:18 So, he will be like we see here on verse 90.

1:13:21 [56:90] If he belongs with those on the right - [56:91] Then, peace to you from those on the right.

1:13:26 We can be sure that God's justice put these people exactly in the right place.

1:13:32 He deserves to be in the Lower Heaven.

1:13:36 When, when Satan made that blasphemy billions of years ago, there were degrees of convictions among us.

1:13:43 To go from the jinns who completely agreed with Satan, to the majority of humans who were wishy-washy. They didn't...

1:13:51 to some who were swept in the crowd. And hopefully, that's us.

1:13:58 So, now Cathy has a question.

1:14:06 You're talking about a very special group of people who will be the closest to God on the Day of Judgement. They are very special people.

1:14:13 And this will be like when the Prophet Muhammad started to preach.

1:14:19 Well, let's go to Abraham.

1:14:21 Abraham started Islam.

1:14:24 And then there were people who were with him when the others were throwing him in the fire.

1:14:30 And then by the time the Prophet Muhammad came, they became idol worshippers.

1:14:33 Then, the message was renewed by revealing the Quran through the Prophet Muhammad.

1:14:38 And he was secretly preaching.

1:14:41 And there were people with him.

1:14:42 Those are very special people. This is the first generation.

1:14:45 And then Muhammad became victorious and he opened Mecca. And all the people in Mecca became believers.

1:14:50 They jumped in the wagon.

1:14:51 But they do not deserve the same credit as the people who were with him when he was being persecuted and having stones thrown at him. And

1:14:59 he was cursed and called names and persecuted.

1:15:05 Does this make sense?

1:15:07 So, that was a first generation at the time of Ibrahim, at the time of Muhammad.

1:15:12 And then ten years ago, Islam was totally corrupted.

1:15:16 There is not a single mosque in the world that upholds the commandment to mention only the name of God in the mosque,

1:15:22 in the worship practices and so on.

1:15:25 And then God renewed the message with this miracle.

1:15:29 So, now we are a first generation.

1:15:32 And the people who are in this movement, while it is being persecuted and the names and the insults and so on, are very special people.

1:15:41 Now, ten years from now, we'll probably have millions. Maybe twenty years, fifty years from now.

1:15:46 And everybody will jump in the wagon, but they do not deserve the same credit as you do.

1:15:50 So, these very special people will be multiplied from this generation.

1:15:55 And after that, when it is famous and successful and it is the thing to do, they don't deserve the same credit. They will not be in the same rank.

1:16:05 This is what we did last week when we were absent.

1:16:11 We don't even know if he was 40 or not. We didn't have birth certificates then.

1:16:15 By just guessing that the prophet was 40, when he was selected and given the Quran.

1:16:20 But it has nothing to do with that.

1:16:23 It is in the Quran, Sura 46, verse 50, it says... It's what it says there.

1:16:30 It's based on that.

1:16:31 Dr. Khalifa: Any other questions?

1:16:33 Lisa: [57:4] .... He is with you wherever you may be. God is Seer of everything you do.

1:16:39 He truly is in absolute control of the universe.

1:16:47 This verse, to me, expresses it very, very clearly and very, very beautifully.

1:16:54 Verse 5,

1:16:55 [57:5] To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. God is in full control of all things.

1:17:02 These verses again and again are saying absolutely what we've been saying that God does everything.

1:17:09 And yet it is so hard for us to accept that.

1:17:13 You can hear it and you can say "yes", but then you get sidetracked.

1:17:22 "Oh, if I don't take my vitamins I'm gonna get sick."

1:17:26 You aren't gonna get sick unless you deserve to get sick.

1:17:30 That doesn't mean you shouldn't take your vitamins.

1:17:32 Because God, you know, God has given us the vitamins. He has given us the medicines. He has given...

1:17:37 But we have to remember that God is the One who is controlling everything, who is doing everything.

1:17:43 God controls our bosses.

1:17:45 God controls our neighbors. God controls our spouses.

1:17:49 He controls not only the physical things.

1:17:50 He controls the emotions, the hearts and the minds of those around us and of us.

1:17:56 As Rashad pointed out so beautifully, God bestowed on Abraham his righteousness, his understanding.

1:18:03 Well, God says very clearly that He bestows on all of us our righteousness. It's not us.

1:18:08 It's not ours. We...

1:18:10 God gives it to us.

1:18:12 He controls our hearts and our minds.

1:18:15 If we make that one choice. The only thing we really control is that one choice of whether we worship God alone or not.

1:18:22 Once we've made that decision, He goes from there. He takes it from there.

1:18:27 And there are a lot of verses that talk about God misguiding those who disbelieve.

1:18:34 Well, they make.....

1:18:37 A woman: Yeah. Any questions about the Lower Heaven?

1:18:42 How?

1:18:46 41.

1:18:47 Hell goes right after 41. Wait, what?

1:18:53 It's 41.

1:18:55 My God.

1:18:56 Yeah.

1:18:57 Dr. Khalifa: This has a meaning.

1:19:00 Dr. Khalifa: Yep. 41 means hell.

1:19:03 If you don't make that decision.

1:19:07 Dr. Khalifa: If you don't make that decision by that time. A woman: Okay.

1:19:12 A woman: That's clear. I mean, wait a minute.

1:19:15 Dr. Khalifa: 41 and higher.

1:19:18 We didn't make the decision.

1:19:21 A woman: Subhan Allah.

1:19:22 Dr. Khalifa: Remember the circle?

1:19:24 This circle here means every verse in the Quran is numbered according to a system, God's system.

1:19:38 Dr. Khalifa: I seek refuge in God from Satan the rejected (أعوذ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ) [A'oodhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem]

1:19:39 We seek refuge in God from Satan, who was the basic cause for us being here in this world.

1:19:49 And, in fact, may God make it backfire on Satan and give us happiness in this world and forever

1:19:57 through believing in God alone.

1:19:59 Bism Allah Arrahman Arraheem In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

1:20:08 We are gonna start with Sura 51, page 366.

1:20:15 And our teacher tonight, I forgot his name. I don't know if you remember. What's your name, sir?

1:20:21 Douglas: Rashid

1:20:22 Dr. Khalifa: What's your name? Douglas: Rashid.

1:20:26 Dr. Khalifa: I'm serious. We actually forgot.

1:20:30 Dr. Khalifa: Rashid? Douglas: Douglas.

1:20:33 Douglas: It's Douglas. Douglas Brown.

1:20:35 Dr. Khalifa: Douglas Brown? Douglas: Yes.

1:20:36 Dr. Khalifa: You're sure? Douglas: I'm sure of that.

1:20:38 Douglas: You'll find out later when I...

1:20:42 Dr. Khalifa: He's a very nervous teacher today.

1:20:50 The Sura.

1:20:53 You know, a believer appreciates God differently from people who are unaware or who are not strong believers.

1:21:02 You can see here that the title of the Sura is "the Winds."

1:21:05 And we learn from the first few verses that the winds, their main job is to carry clouds and bring bounties.

1:21:14 We need that water.

1:21:16 So, in order to appreciate God and these simple words, just imagine yourself sending 10 astronauts to space.

1:21:25 You sending 10 astronauts to space. And you tell them

1:21:30 "Okay, you're gonna be out there for three years. And when you need water, I made an invention in the spaceship so there'll be these clouds on top of you and they will give you water."

1:21:40 You're sending them into space.

1:21:43 And you devise that system that will give them water, clean water.

1:21:49 When they pollute the water they have on the spaceship,

1:21:52 it's gonna... you know, one of the... number one purification processes is distillation.

1:21:59 So, when they pollute, their own water is gonna evaporate. It's gonna be pure water and come down again.

1:22:04 So, you tell them that, so, to assure them that they will have enough water supply for three years or five years, ten years, whatever

1:22:11 you're sending them. Just imagine that.

1:22:14 See, God sent this spaceship with five billion astronauts. You and me, we are astronauts.

1:22:19 That's right.

1:22:21 And God gave us this system.

1:22:23 God devised this system where the water evaporates and then comes down by... the wind drive the clouds here.

1:22:32 How far are we from the ocean?

1:22:34 We're far from the ocean.

1:22:36 But these clouds came to us from the ocean, by the wind.

1:22:40 It's a traveling system.

1:22:42 And that sends down pure water.

1:22:45 You appreciate God if you think.

1:22:48 But if you imagine sending ten astronauts in space and you tell them "I'm going to give the exact

1:22:54 percentage of oxygen for you to breathe."

1:22:57 Now, in 1967, we were technologically advanced people. In 1967.

1:23:04 But we put three astronauts in a capsule in an atmosphere of 100% oxygen.

1:23:11 Pure oxygen, right? To breathe.

1:23:15 And all it took was a spark.

1:23:16 And the three astronauts were combusted.

1:23:19 Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee.

1:23:23 They're not with us today because of that.

1:23:27 We were really advanced in science.

1:23:31 But when you put anything in pure oxygen and light a match, everything would be combusted. Everything.

1:23:37 Everything organic, that is.

1:23:41 In fact, this is for chemists.

1:23:43 If any chemist is here, this is the last thing you do to find out if there is, for example, radioactivity in the ashes of anything.

1:23:50 You put it in a closed thing there. You fill it with 100% oxygen.

1:23:55 And you create a spark.

1:23:57 And everything will be combusted into ashes.

1:24:01 This is what happened to the three astronauts.

1:24:04 And this is why God didn't give us 100% oxygen. We have 20% oxygen. The rest is nitrogen.

1:24:11 And this is what they do now when they send astronauts into space.

1:24:17 But we learned the hard way.

1:24:20 So, despite our...

1:24:23 I mean, we were sending people to the moon.

1:24:26 And we couldn't give them the correct atmosphere.

1:24:31 So, these few verses here will make us appreciate God if we think of sending our own astronauts into space.

1:24:44 Of course, you know how the oxygen is generated for us.

1:24:47 We breathe it and we get out carbon dioxide, which is not good for breathing.

1:24:52 So, God designed the trees so they will take carbon dioxide and turn it into apples and give us the oxygen.

1:24:58 They take the carbon and give us back the oxygen.

1:25:02 How do you like that for a system? Can you do that for your astronauts?

1:25:08 You tell your 10 astronauts, you're gonna be out there for 10 years and you're gonna breathe out carbon dioxide. So, I'm gonna give you

1:25:14 a couple of... I invented these plants or something that will take your carbon dioxide, turn it into food for you, and you'll get the oxygen back.

1:25:26 That's what God's created.

1:25:29 And you think it's all evolution, right?

1:25:37 Are there any questions on these, the winds and the rains and bounties?

1:25:44 We're talking only about the 5 billion human beings. Don't forget the 10 decillion ants and about 200 billion mice. Ihsan.

1:26:01 There may be a few of them in this mosque running around.

1:26:06 The name scares her this way.

1:26:10 OK, back to Douglas.

1:26:11 Yes, Cathy.

1:26:13 Cathy: (unintelligible) and we do it. 3-year-old children, 2-year-old children. I mean, language is just amazing. (unintelligible)

1:26:29 Dr. Khalifa: This is mentioned specifically as a great miracle in the Koran, the language.

1:26:33 Just go to Europe.

1:26:36 Cathy: Well, We don't doubt it. Dr. Khalifa: Where...

1:26:41 Dr. Khalifa: Within a radius of 50 miles, not 50, 20 miles in Europe, you can come across 15 languages.

1:26:48 Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria.

1:26:53 Within Czechoslovakia, there are several languages.

1:26:58 And it's just amazing how these people understand each other, but these people don't understand them. They understand each other.

1:27:07 It's a miracle.

1:27:10 It's still amazing.

1:27:17 Douglas: Any questions or comments?

1:27:26 Dr. Khalifa: There you said it, his only son.

1:27:29 Isaac was never the only son.

1:27:32 You said the truth right there.

1:27:40 This is how they justify it.

1:27:42 It didn't say "take your only legitimate son." It said "take your only son."

1:27:46 Even if he's illegitimate.

1:27:49 But he was not illegitimate.

1:27:51 Did it say "you take your only son or your only legitimate son?"

1:27:58 No.

1:28:00 Somebody.... of course, the Jews and the Christians believe it was Isaac.

1:28:05 But that's a racial, that's a racial distortion.

1:28:09 They said "take your only son, Isaac,...."

1:28:13 So, they made a boo-boo there, because Isaac was never the only son.

1:28:17 So when you tell them, when you confront them with that "only son" business, because Ishmael was 14 years older than Isaac.

1:28:25 They tell you "oh, because Isaac was the only legitimate son. I said "OK, let's look at the Bible."

1:28:29 And the Bible consistently calls Ishmael Abraham's son until Ibrahim dies. And then they say

1:28:35 "when Abraham died, his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, buried him."

1:28:41 So there's no way out.

1:28:47 No.

1:28:48 No, he didn't.

1:28:51 No, you read it in some novel.

1:28:55 From who?

1:29:00 No, no, it's not in Genesis, no.

1:29:05 OK, Abraham had, I mean, Sarah was sterile. She didn't have anything but Isaac.

1:29:15 There are lots of novels that he said, we married this and that.

1:29:28 Many other children are irrelevant, because the Quran and the Bible mention only Ishmael and Isaac.

1:29:35 Nobody else.

1:29:37 In Genesis 22, in Genesis 22, around 25, it says "when Abraham died, his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, buried him."

1:29:49 So, Ishmael was Abraham's son.

1:29:52 He was the only son of Abraham for 14 years.

1:29:56 Isaac was never the only son.

1:30:03 Isaac is the father of the Jews. Ishmael is the father of the Arabs.

1:30:06 Dr. Khalifa: The Jews wrote about.... I mean, played around with the Genesis, the Torah.

1:30:12 A woman: So, the idea is that they just wanted a miracle to be a miracle to Isaac?

1:30:20 Dr. Khalifa: Right, they didn't want anything Ishmael to have anything to do with anything.

1:30:26 So, they made a big mistake. It's just like....

1:30:31 So, they made a big mistake. It's just like the two verses in the Quran.

1:30:36 Exactly, they made a glaring error.

1:30:40 And they tried to correct it in the newer editions of the Bible. They say "take your only one."

1:30:48 Trying very hard, but they make it worse.

1:30:50 The only one what? Donkey or....?

1:31:02 A woman: You're talking about (unintelligible).

1:31:09 Dr. Khalifa: They don't learn, do they?

1:31:11 They haven't learned a thing.

1:31:15 People bring their destruction on themselves.

1:31:18 We know that Sodom and Gomorrah, they were all corrupted beyond reform.

1:31:24 And this is the one thing that.... and they brought it on themselves.

1:31:29 So, it is God's law that when they do this, they are destroyed.

1:31:34 Nowadays, when homosexuals are spread in the society, you cannot just destroy the city of Tucson because there are

1:31:41 a thousand homosexuals in it.

1:31:44 But you can send a virus to pick them out.

1:31:49 This is what's happening now.

1:31:55 Their parents brought it on them.

1:32:00 Right, they brought it on themselves, their family.

1:32:03 Their family take the children out of God's protection.

1:32:06 This is what happens.