Friday Sermon by dr Rashad Khalifa the Heavenly Feud the Importance of Killing the Ego 1989 09 29
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0:14 ALLAH-O AKBAR (God is the Supreme) X 4
0:53 LA ILAAHA ILLA ALLAH (There is no other god besides God)
1:29 ALHAMDU LILLAAH, We praise God
1:34 WA ASHHADU AN LA ILAAHA ILLAA ALLAH, WAHDAHU LAA SHARIKA LAH
1:38 And I bear witness that there is no other god besides the One God.
1:44 This is a... this is a very important Khutba, so I am going to stall a little bit for the rest of the late ones to be here.
1:57 This Khutba is so important that you are definitely a very select group of people who are destined to be here at this time.
2:07 But before I say anything, were is Ahmad Boruni?
2:11 You are his wife!
2:15 Good for you. Good for you.
2:22 Ok just to stall, I'm going to share with you Edip's discovery of last Khutba.
2:27 Give a chance to the late ones to be here.
2:30 It is an awesome discovery.
2:32 And it tells us that the contact prayers, God prescribes Al-fateha, Sura number 1,
2:38 no more and no less, for the contact prayer.
2:44 It confirms what we have been doing for a few years, that is reciting only Sura number 1
2:51 The mathematical evidence that God gives us, gave us,
2:56 and Edip discovered last week, or gave us last week
3:00 has to do with the physical structure of Sura number 1 and also the literal composition.
3:06 The physical structure, just that some of you may have missed the miracle last time, so I'm repeating it.
3:13 The physical structure is that the Sura is number 1 and it has 7 verses:
3:19 1 2 3 4 5 6 & 7. This is the physical structure of the Sura and this number is a multiple of 19.
3:32 Just putting the number of the Sura and the verses next to each other.
3:37 Now, you know that the morning prayer is 2 units, the noon is 4, the afternoon is 4,
3:47 the sunset is 3 and the night is 4.
3:50 And this number is a multiple of 19.
3:53 Putting the number of units next to each other.
3:55 19, of course, is the number that God himself picked.
3:59 When people tell you why 19? Tell them "because God said so in Sura 74."
4:05 God said it is the number 19 that will prove that the Quran is not human-made.
4:10 74:25 says "some people will say the Quran is man-made.
4:14 And 74:30, God says "19 will prove to you that it is not man-made."
4:19 and 74:35 says "it is one of the greatest miracles."
4:25 So, this is... this proves also the sequence of the prayers:
4:31 Morning, noon, afternoon, sunset, night,
4:34 And it is a multiple of 19,
4:36 and it is universally recognized, worldwide.There're no differences.
4:41 Now, the literal composition of the Sura is confirmed by the fact that
4:48 instead of the verse number, we put the number of the letters.
4:52 So, you put the Sura number which is 1,
4:57 The first... the first verse as you know is 19 letters,
5:05 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
5:08 the second verse: ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ is 17 letters
5:15 You put 17 instead of 2.
5:16 The third verse is 12.
5:21 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ ,ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِين, ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
5:30 مَـٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ is 11
5:35 right!
5:36 11 letters.
5:39 اِیَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَ اِیَّاكَ نَسْتَعِیْنُ
5:42 about the most important expression in the Sura:
5:44 "You alone we worship. You alone we ask for help" is 19.
5:49 We put 19.
5:53 and ٱهْدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ is 18.
5:57 صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ is 43 letters.
6:05 And this number also is a multiple of 19.
6:12 So, there you have it. Physical evidence.
6:15 Just in passing, we just received the Aramco magazine,
6:25 -The Arabian oil company-
6:27 And on the front cover, they have the last two verses of Sura 9, Satan's verses.
6:31 The Satanic verses on the cover
6:32 and inside they had Al-fateha, written in the colloquial Arabic, not in the Quranic Arabic
6:40 where there was three extra letters.
6:42 So, they are trying hard to destroy God's miracle, but it is not working.
6:46 It's too late. The cat is out of the bag.
6:49 So, I hope you appreciate this miracle now and it is very clear.
6:54 Now that Abdullah is here, it means everyone is here.
6:59 So, I'm going to start my Khutba now.
7:02 ALHAMDU LILLAAH, WA ASHHADU AN LA ILLAAHA ILLAA ALLAH, W AHDAHU LAA SHARIKA LAH
7:05 This is a very important Khutba in that God is revealing so much information.
7:10 I'm going to repeat the assertion that you are a select group of people. You are destined to be here at this time.
7:16 The information that God is sending to us puts us an eternity ahead of anyone else living on Earth today.
7:24 The subsequent generations will catch up with us.
7:27 But today, on the planet earth, we are an eternity ahead of the rest of the world.
7:35 The picture of why we are here is emerging very clearly now.
7:42 And there is a lot more to be known but this is the time that God wills to send this information to us.
7:48 It is relevant to our generation.
7:51 And what this additional information, you know most of it, but the additional information shows how bad the human being is,
8:02 and how fortunate we, in this Masjid, are.
8:07 These are the two things, the subject of this Khutba:
8:10 How bad the humans are
8:12 and how fortunate we are.
8:16 It was Satan's ego, EGO, remember this word?
8:21 that made him think that he can be a god besides God
8:25 and this triggered a division in the heavenly community.
8:29 Some creatures agreed with Satan
8:34 and this constituted the heavenly feud that we see in Sura 38, 19 X 2, verse 69, the Heavenly Feud
8:44 or the Feud in the Heavenly Community.
8:47 The vast, vast, vast majority disagreed with Satan.
8:52 They stood on the side of God's absolute authority, and those are the angels.
8:58 They never questioned the fact that only God can be a god.
9:03 And their numbers's unknown to anybody. Only God knows.
9:06 Sura 74, verse 31.
9:08 It says "no one knows the number of God's soldiers, the angels, except He."
9:14 Even the angels do not know what their population is.
9:18 So, don't be tricked by the fact that 150 billion creatures agreed with Satan.
9:25 Those are a very very small minority.
9:31 So, now we have a minority, the criminal element in the Heavenly society that's you and me and the jinns,
9:39 failing to make a stand on God's absolute authority.
9:47 God, the Most Merciful, offered this criminal element another opportunity to renounce their crime and to submit to God.
10:00 And the majority of these creatures, the vast vast vast majority took advantage of that opportunity,
10:10 which we see in Sura 33, verse 72
10:12 and those are the animals, the mountains, the stars, the trees
10:18 You remember in Sura 22, verse 18, God says "do you not realize that the mountains, the trees, the animals prostrate to God and some people."
10:28 Remember that verse?
10:29 In Sura 55, verse 6, God says "the stars and the trees prostrate."
10:35 What does this mean?
10:36 It's because they decided, they took advantage of that second opportunity to submit to God.
10:43 The horse is a submitter to God. He was one, the horse is one of those creatures.
10:49 They committed that initial blasphemy and took advantage of the second offer.
10:54 The horse is a perfect submitter.
10:57 He comes to you on four, you know like this,
11:01 ego, remember ego? The word ego.
11:03 The horse comes to you like this and says ride me.
11:07 And the horse will let a poor person ride him.
11:12 or a rich person. A child will lead the horse wherever the child wants.
11:19 The horse is a perfect submitter.
11:21 And this was the deal that the animals accepted to come here in a subservient, obedient function.
11:30 And in return for this obedience are redeemed to God's kingdom in the hereafter.
11:36 That was the deal.
11:38 The dog wags his tail to the homeless.
11:43 You see a homeless person walking on the street, very poor
11:45 And he is taking along a dog with him and the dog loves him, wags his tail.
11:51 The president of the United States has dogs also and they wag their tails to the president.
11:55 Not because he is the president; they do not even know that they live in the White House.
12:02 They can live in the street with the homeless or in the White House and they are submitting, they wag their tails.
12:07 When God asked you and me "do you want to go to the world?"
12:17 God told us about the plan.
12:19 "Do you want to participate in this plan as a horse?"
12:22 "The poor will ride you. The rich will ride you. A child will lead you."
12:27 And you and I said "no way!"
12:31 "Me?! Go as a horse?!"
12:34 Ego, remember?
12:35 This criminal element...
12:37 It is the ego that brought us here.
12:40 And it is the ego that stands, as an obstacle, between us and redemption.
12:51 There were so many of the creatures who decided to take advantage of the second offer,
12:56 that they could not all come here as animals. We'd be over crowded.
12:59 So, God made them stars and the stars prostrate. They go on the precise orbit.
13:06 The Sun rises and sets at exactly the same times.
13:12 Today, September 29, the Sun rises 6:16.
13:17 It's not 6:15 or 6:20. 6:16.
13:21 And next year, it's going to rise at 6:16.
13:24 If you watch the horizon at the east at 6:16, there comes the Sun disk; see it coming up, submitting.
13:32 It's going to set at 6:11, not 6:10.
13:37 And this is, this is eternal. This is eternal calendar.
13:41 The moon synchronized around the earth, following, following exactly the orbit.
13:47 Halley's comet comes every 76 years.
13:50 They wait for it and, sure enough, here it comes every 76 years.
13:54 It goes, God knows where, but 76 years, it comes back to the Solar system and we see it.
14:00 We refused. We are so bad.
14:05 The human being is so bad. This explains why all these people are oblivious to God.
14:10 And you can see that their ego is preventing them.
14:15 God says in 33:79,
14:20 That the human being was unjust, stupid
14:24 ظلوماً جهولاً
14:25 Ignorant. God calls it ignorant.
14:28 Another is blind, as the Quran. But it really is... this is the most fitting word.
14:34 When God told the horse "you go as a horse and you'll be redeemed to God's kingdom." He said "I'll take it. I'll take it."
14:41 And they come here and perform their functions.
14:46 And they go back.
14:48 Even our bodies are submitting.
14:50 Because the body is part of the earth.
14:53 The earth is submitting to God.
14:56 The body is a garment made of the earth,
14:59 just like this came out of the oil from the ground.
15:02 A garment.
15:05 And your heart. You cannot control your heart. It is out of your control.
15:08 Your peristalsis, the intestines, moving. They move like this.
15:15 They push the food all the way to your stomach until you digest it.
15:19 You don't control that. Miles and miles of your intestines are moving right now in a precise motion.
15:26 The lungs are breathing.
15:29 You do not control that.
15:31 Because the earth is submitting to God. Your body is part of the earth.
15:35 And you cannot control it.
15:38 But the human being is so bad.
15:44 If I draw a line of God's creatures in the heavenly community, like this.
15:54 And Satan... Satan's ego told him that he can be a god besides God.
16:03 By the way this, this minor rebellion proves to us that God's creatures have a freedom of choice.
16:12 This is the usefulness or the purpose of this rebellion.
16:15 The humans say "why did God create rebellious creatures?"
16:17 And God takes this into consideration.
16:22 And this is why millions of people die before the age of 40 and are redeemed.
16:26 Obviously they deserved it, but they participated in this very important function.
16:33 The hardcore enemies of God will end up in hell.
16:38 And I love Ismail Barakat's expression yesterday
16:41 When we were talking about what you read in the perspective about changing the name of Muhammad, even their idol, to five letters, Muhamamad محممد.
16:48 Instead of محمد, just to oppose the miracle.
16:54 He said "they are storming the gates of hell."
16:58 This is what he said. "storming."
17:01 God builds fences around hell, and the very strong gates and they're storming the gates of hell.
17:08 So, when Satan did this, the vast majority of God's creatures agreed,
17:14 but a small minority...
17:15 Can you see this back there?
17:20 This is the criminal element in the heavenly community.
17:24 Now, if we expand this here.
17:36 When God offered the second opportunity for them to submit, the vast vast majority of them submitted.
17:41 And the real bad ones - we were just about this much -
17:46 That's you and me, the humans and jinns. We refused
17:53 because you know how many horses there are in the world, and how many mosquitos and cockroaches, Edip... and bees.
18:06 So, the vast majority took advantage of the second.
18:09 These are the real bad ones.
18:11 "Me, go down as a horse?! No!"
18:15 You know, this is ego. We thought we were smart enough to make the right decision.
18:20 See, God told us that if you make the right decision, you come back to the high heaven, which is fantastic.
18:26 And this is the second part of my sentence how fortunate we are.
18:31 This is how bad, this is how bad the humans are.
18:38 TOOBOO ILLA ALLAH. Repent.
18:50 ALHAMDU LILLAH, WA ASHHADU AN LA ILLAAHA ILLAA ALLAH, WAHDAHU LAA SHARIKA LAH
18:55 What you just did now, repent, means you said you are sorry for doing this.
19:00 We made a mistake, we want to be redeemed back to God's kingdom.
19:03 We do not want to be exiled from God.
19:06 We were exiled because of our ego.
19:08 The reason, you and I refused to come here as a dog or a horse or a mosquito
19:15 was that we thought that we, oh, it's easy. It's a piece of cake. We're gonna... we'll choose God. We will not choose Satan.
19:38 My thought got interrupted here.
19:42 Yes, I want to mention that, since it is the ego that is preventing us, the obstacle between us and God's kingdom,
19:57 "Kill your ego is one of the first commandments in the Quran."
20:00 "Kill your ego."
20:01 2:54. Sura 2, verse 54. In the first 10 pages of the Quran, it says, "Kill your ego."
20:13 And kill means "dead".
20:15 You see how the horse is.
20:17 We are supposed to kill our ego, as far as God is concerned.
20:21 Killing the ego is not that somebody comes, slaps you in the face and you turn the other cheek. No.
20:29 You stand. In fact, God says the believers are not whims.
20:32 They stand up for their rights.
20:34 But as far as God is concerned, you must kill your ego.
20:38 Because I'm telling you the ego is what is preventing millions of people today from going to heaven.
20:44 And what let some of us to drop out is when God willed that I announce my messengership.
20:51 The only reason they refuse is the ego
20:55 because God gave them so much evidence and gave them zero evidence against it.
21:03 We're still waiting for one reason, good or bad.
21:07 They can't come up with one. There is no reason
21:11 that say "you are not God's messenger." There is no reason.
21:15 But it's the ego. And they can't come up and say it.
21:20 They can't say "it's my ego that is... It is because of my ego I don't wanna recognize you as God's messenger."
21:25 And it seems to me now that this is part of the test. Not it is part of the test, but I mean it is a difficult test
21:34 that God puts us through in order to kill our ego.
21:41 "He is one of us who claims to be God's messenger."
21:44 "How are we gonna... And then God says obey God and obey the messenger in the Quran. How am I gonna do this?"
21:49 "He's just like me."
21:50 It's ego, our ego.
21:52 I actually sympathize with those people.
21:55 It took me 8 years to accept that.
22:01 And I don't wanna give myself a test. I have enough of my own.
22:07 but I do wanna ask myself "if I were in there shoes, what would I do?"
22:12 But it is definitely the ego and God is fair.
22:17 If they flunk, they deserve it.
22:20 It is strictly ego.
22:28 What is the reason? What is their reason?
22:31 You know they could have come with a reason saying "God says Muhammad is the last messenger in the Quran." And this should be over, be finished.
22:40 But they don't come up with a reason like that because there is no such thing.
22:43 The Quran says "Muhammad was the last prophet, a message, scripture-bearing messenger but he was not the last messenger."
22:52 The Quran makes it very clear.
22:55 I don't know, they could have come with a hundred reasons.
23:01 Edip: Chicago conference.
23:06 The messenger: Yeah. Things are brewing now. This may change their direction
23:10 But I think I said everything I wanted to say any way.
23:12 There is many more that we'll discuss tonight Insha Allah, and in the next months and years, Insha Allah.
23:17 We'll be discussing these.
23:18 God will send more information.
23:20 But the highlight is that I wanted to point out this how bad the human being is and how fortunate we are.
23:30 They established something called the counsel on the preservation of the finality of prophethood.
23:40 And this includes the top witch in the Muslim world:
23:42 The Pope of the Sunni Muslims, Sheikh Al-azhar, the head, the imam of the Ka'ba, the Mecca Masjid, the head of the Muslim world leader
23:55 And they are holding a conference, an urgent conference in Chicago, October 7. It is two weeks from now.
24:06 It's called world conference on the finality of prophethood.
24:14 And they are trying to confuse the people. Remember the verse in Quran that says "they distort the words out of context."
24:20 They are trying to confuse the people as far as the definition of the prophet and messenger are concerned.
24:25 And since Edip brought this up, I'm gonna read the letters to you that I wrote to them.
24:57 This is their flyer.
24:59 And it says "World Conference on Finality of the Prophethood and Significance of Hadith."
25:08 And they say, conference will start on Saturday October 7th. There is no Insha Allah.
25:12 You will not see the name of God in this sheet.
25:14 There is not a single word, God, on this sheet. There is no Quran on this sheet.
25:20 There is Hadith and there is a picture of prophet's mosque which he never saw.
25:26 Right here.
25:28 And it gives you the names, the Sheikh Al-azhar and so on.
25:32 And you know something, we will be there.
25:34 We'll be represented there. I'm gonna give them a lot of trouble.
25:36 Herbert Hill, you know him from Chicago. He was here for the conference.
25:40 He's taking his brother who used to be a Sunni and he's... he's being saved.
25:46 And maybe some other people, and they will go there and will ask some crucial questions.
25:51 Like "what is the difference between Prophet and Messenger?"
25:54 Tell me "where in the Quran does it say, Muhammad is the last messenger?"
25:57 "Who is the messenger of the Covenant that is in 3:81?" Et Cetera. Et Cetera.
26:03 We have 19 questions for them.
26:09 Oh, the letter that I wrote to them:
26:12 I sent it to each one of the top leaders and I said:
26:19 to these people from Rashad Khalifa regarding world conference on finality of the prophethood.
26:24 Dear brothers, As-Salamu Alaykum. No one is questioning the fact that Muhammad was the final prophet "Nabi." Quran 33:40.
26:32 According to 3:81, 33:7 and 33:40, he was not the last messenger "Rasool."
26:37 As Muslims we are required to believe Almighty God when He so states in His Holy Book.
26:42 The Quranic assertions that Muhammad was the final prophet but not the final messenger,
26:47 are God's commandments to us through the prophet Muhammad.
26:50 I trust that you stand ready to obey God and His final prophet.
26:54 You will readily agree with me that those who refuse to accept these Quranic truth are no longer Muslims, Quran 3:81-85.
27:05 As God's Messenger of the Covenant, supported by overwhelming physical evidence,
27:10 it is my obligation to invite you to examine these Quranic truths.
27:14 and examine the evidence God has given me to present to you and to the world.
27:19 You are cordially invited to Masjid Tucson at any time you choose to discuss this matter and examine my evidence.
27:27 Thank you and may God bless you with His guidance and infinite mercy.
27:31 Forgive me for saying this "your brother in Islam, Rashad Khalifa."
27:36 There has to be some diplomacy there.
27:39 AQEM AL-SALAT.