Quran Study - 19 Nov 1982 - By Dr. Rashad Khalifa
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0:02 The root is ra'a. You see, it's 'to see' in some way, because when you are watching
0:13 sheep, you are also seeing, isn't it?
0:16 For instance, that has been done deliberately, you see. But there are a few occasions mentioned, even in
0:28 the history of Islam, the Jews used to make fun of the Muslims; they would get some Arabic
0:36 word used by the Muslims and then pronounce it in such a way that it becomes bad, the
0:43 opposite.
0:44 It happens to us, I think, you know, when we speak another language and so on.
0:52 It's like, I remember out in Indonesia, because sometimes you use a word you think is good, but it is not a good word at all.
1:16 If you say it there, then they would laugh, you know, in Yogyakarta. It means something very, very
1:23 bad. Then they would laugh. And I let it go.
1:28 But yeah, that happens.
1:29 That happens.
1:30 Some word has a good meaning in one language, but a bad meaning in another language.
1:34 Especially if not pronounced well and so on. And this is a moral scripture;
1:39 you are not supposed to fool around with these terms.
1:45 And the second word, it doesn't...
1:48 The second word, yeah, go ahead.
1:49 I don't know what the issue is, because, you know, you can read that in the phrase.
1:54 phrase.
1:55 It's vicious.
1:56 Because we're saying that.
1:57 But this is not a black and white issue.
2:01 So it's more like, you know, can we actually walk up to Jews and Christians and say...
2:24 Yeah, I think I have that because it's pointing to 4:46, the footnote.
2:32 4:46. There is a footnote in there
2:35 that
2:36 Ra'ina sounded like a lewd word
2:38 in the Hebrew language.
2:39 And some Hebrew speakers
2:41 believe in that.
2:46 You know,
2:48 she's saying what I'm saying,
2:49 and all I asked was,
2:50 when I'm doing my personal prayers,
2:55 can I use
2:57 the word
2:59 Unthurna
3:00 in English?
3:03 Oh, that's...
3:04 That's all right.
3:05 That's all right.
3:05 Watch out.
3:07 That's okay.
3:08 That's because it's here.
3:10 And it's not here.
3:11 And you're asking, "Why can't I do that?"
3:14 So, you understand the point I'm making.
3:20 I think, well, she's gone.
3:25 She's going home.
3:26 She's going home.
3:28 She's going home.
3:29 She's going home.
3:30 She's going home.
4:49 Yes, you are relating 105 with 101; 101 refers to the Jews.
5:00 Because their concept of being "the chosen people" was very exclusive, and they denied the idea that others would also receive revelation. But then God says He specifies His mercy for whomever He wills, and God is Possessor of Infinite Bounty.
5:22 That is "Dhu al-Fadl al-'Adhim," and this is explained in this part, that He specifies His
5:32 mercy; He chooses whom He desires to help, and so on.
5:39 106 is a very delicate verse.
5:44 There is a long history to this, because there have been two groups of people.
5:52 And the enemies of the Qur'an have interpreted one of the extremes to mean that this abrogation
6:04 is abrogation of Qur'anic verses.
6:06 Now I have to be very careful about this.
6:08 This is the theory of an-Nasikh wal-Mansukh; naskh, to abrogate, and mansukh, that some verses of
6:20 the Qur'an abrogate other verses of the Qur'an.
6:25 Now, this runs against the idea from the Qur'an that the Qur'an is consistent, contains no
6:35 crookedness, and so on.
6:36 Now, if we accept that the Qur'an is consistent, then you cannot have a verse that corrects
6:48 another verse.
6:50 Therefore, the meaning of this would be the following, the second which I think is the
6:54 more reliable meaning: that the Qur'an supersedes the former scriptures.
7:05 For example, where there was a prohibition on something in the old scriptures, the Qur'an says
7:11 it is now permitted. For example, the prohibition of certain foods among the Jews.
7:23 The Qur'an, you know, says, "Forget that."
7:28 The idea of intercourse
7:31 at night during the
7:32 month of Ramadan; in the old days,
7:34 that was prohibited,
7:36 and now it is allowed.
7:38 So, in that sense,
7:39 the Qur'an has verses
7:43 which supersede
7:44 former verses,
7:46 or rather, it supersedes verses
7:49 of former scriptures.
7:50 I think that is the only
7:53 possible
7:55 meaning.
7:58 It is not one verse of the Qur'an correcting another verse, but it is a verse of the Qur'an
8:05 superseding the provisions of former scriptures.
8:11 Because the Qur'an is consistent; there is no error in it, and so on.
8:18 So if one wants to remain a Christian, and on some issue, he has to follow the Bible, right?
8:30 And he follows those verses that are found in the Bible.
8:39 And if he follows the way of the Bible on that matter,
8:45 it is applicable or right for him, right?
8:49 It is no sin. Yes. No, no. It is Christian.
8:52 Christian. Yeah, that is considered the Christian way.
8:55 Yeah, in that sense.
8:57 But if you want to remain a Christian or follow the Bible...
9:03 The answer is in 5:48.
9:05 Five?
9:09 Do you want to hear the quote?
9:10 We are proceeding. Do you want to hear?
9:23 5:48 says,
9:25 "Then We revealed to you this scripture truthfully, confirming all the previous scriptures,
9:30 and superseding them.
9:31 You shall judge among them in accordance with this scripture,
9:34 and follow not their opinions instead of the truth that has come to you.
9:38 We have decreed statutes and methods for each of you. If God had willed,
9:44 He would have made you one congregation. So, if this person wants to
9:48 remain a Christian, he's supposed to follow the laws of Christianity. If he wants to remain a Jew,
9:53 he has to follow the laws of the Jews. And it's quite clear in the Arabic text; I hope it is as clear in English.
10:00 The point here is, We have decreed statutes and methods—method means method for prayer, method for worship, method for dieting—for each of you."
10:17 If this Christian would now follow this Quran, which is superseding, then he would become a Muslim.
10:26 Right.
10:29 And that is what is happening in this country.
10:32 Yeah.
10:32 This is how millions have become Muslims.
10:35 That's right.
10:41 I'm sure there are a lot of systems that are really prescribed for the Jews themselves.
10:48 So one of them is the law of Tabernacles as a law, right?
10:57 About,
11:00 for example,
11:01 they don't have to make a hut, right?
11:05 Not that I know of,
11:07 but if they go into the hut,
11:09 what happens?
11:10 They have to see through the roof.
11:12 They have to make a hut.
11:14 And they,
11:16 they don't have to do the Friday prayer.
11:18 It is a religion.
11:24 It is a religion.
11:44 I think you may, you might find some basis
11:48 if you go back to the Old Testament,
11:50 because that, as you know,
11:52 when the Temple was built,
11:55 everybody from all over the country, all the Jews had to go there once a year.
12:01 It was part of the ritual that was established during the time of Solomon and David.
12:07 There's a verse in the Quran that says there was a pilgrimage in the older religions.
12:16 When Moses wanted to marry a daughter of this man, he said, "You can marry her; the dowry is that you work for me for eight pilgrimages (Hajj)."
12:32 Meaning eight years, because the pilgrimage (Hajj) happens at a specific time every year.
12:51 I mean, because there are
12:55 parables in there about
12:57 wine. But I mean, if you look
12:59 at it, you know, you know,
13:01 in the Quran, once you read that parable, you'll
13:03 see that it's really a parable.
13:05 And they take it literally. You know, just like they tell us here that we will drink wine
13:11 in Paradise. But the Bible says specifically that wine is not good. Yeah, but I mean, what they're
13:17 taking is a parable that's in the text. You can't take it literally. Then you see here, Jesus said...
13:25 Yeah, but it's the, you know, wine is not the only intoxicant.
13:31 It didn't say only wine!
13:35 Take the case of pork. The Christians nowadays, they don't follow the Mosaic law about not eating pork.
13:48 But they claim it's abrogated by a particular statement in the New Testament itself.
13:52 Yeah, they claim. They eat it.
13:55 The Bible also prohibits pork. And they use it.
13:58 I don't know of any worse
14:00 to prohibit
14:01 well it's
14:03 it just
14:06 yeah
14:08 you can understand it then
14:10 you know but
14:12 I mean it's not stated directly
14:13 whereas there is a parenthetical statement
14:16 that says you know
14:18 something that Jesus said
14:19 I can't remember the precise one
14:21 what goes into the mouth
14:23 is not what's unclean but what comes out
14:26 of it is unclean
14:27 and then parenthetically, in all the Bibles
14:29 I've seen, the statement is put in parentheses
14:31 explaining that by this
14:33 statement, he made all food
14:35 permissible.
14:36 I mean, it's in there. I mean, you pick up any Bible
14:39 and it's in parentheses.
14:41 And people take that as a little
14:43 part of the scripture.
14:47 That's an editorial bit.
14:50 But this is in the New Testament where he cast
14:52 the demons into the herd.
14:55 I mean, because if the pigs were permissible, why would he destroy
15:01 some of these private properties?
15:02 The pigs belonged to somebody.
15:04 They ruined something, economically, when they were all drowned.
15:10 We were reading what it says about racing with people in righteous works.
15:14 What does that mean?
15:15 Well, people like us.
15:18 Okay.
15:19 Outdoing each other in religious works?
15:21 Outdoing each other?
15:22 Well, even with them, that's what we're doing.
15:27 It's the kind of competition that increases the good relation, the affection instead of
15:35 hatred.
15:43 I think Karim has still a few videos.
15:47 Yeah, there you go.
16:26 Well, they always had demands. You know, for instance, when they were told to sacrifice a heifer,
16:32 they said what kind, what color, this and that, and then when they moved to Sinai, they
16:37 said, "We don't like manna and quail, we need onions and lentils and beans."
16:44 They always had demands.
16:47 Yeah, remember that's why they worshipped the calf.
16:53 Yes, in fact they said, "Make an idol for us, make a god for us like these people have done."
17:01 Yeah, so maybe this is the kind of demand that is a lesson for us.
17:25 A good example of this is the Senate, the Arizona Senate that wants to introduce a bill
17:33 He was talking about teaching creation in Arizona schools, and he was very enthusiastic and was having a lot of news conferences.
17:42 And then I sent him my booklet on creation, which had the physical evidence from the computer.
17:49 And after he received that, he sent me a thank-you note, and then that was the last we ever heard of his attempt to talk about creation,
17:56 because they don't want non-Christian teachings.
17:59 This is just the way people believe.
18:02 So, it's like Samson.
18:05 You know, "Upon me and upon my enemies."
18:09 So he doesn't want his creation bill to go through,
18:13 because this may let the people know about this faith.
18:20 Jim Cooper, you know.
18:23 So, they would rather see us go back to become pagans,
18:57 It bothers them when the people watch it in the dark, you know.
19:00 And then we tell them, we're not watching it in the dark, we're watching it in the deep.
19:04 So, it's a formidable sign.
19:15 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
19:17 No, please go on, my friend.
19:18 Oh.
19:19 Please, please start explaining.
19:21 Oh, oh, oh, excuse me.
19:22 Please go ahead.
19:24 What?
19:24 What? What do you want me to do?
19:54 I don't know if you can hear it or not, but I think it's going to be the voice of God in a few minutes.
20:01 And that's the message that's going to come out today.
20:04 It's going to show you that we are not alone.
20:06 We are blessed to know that God can help you out of this.
20:11 And I want to make sure that you can hear that.
20:14 And I want to make sure that you can imagine that God can help you out of this.
20:19 Thank you.
20:22 Thank you.
20:51 Yes.
20:52 We'll take the Quran.
20:53 We're at 2:111.
20:56 Do you want me to take over?
20:58 Yeah.
20:59 We will go to Submission.
21:01 We will start with this.
21:02 They said, "No one will enter Heaven
21:06 unless he is Jewish or Christian."
21:08 Such is their wishful thinking.
21:10 Say, "Show us your proof
21:12 if you are truthful."
21:14 I think we are the lucky generation
21:16 that
21:16 This is the end of the era of religion where we have no physical proof.
21:24 And this is what we have from now on, we have to apply this principle,
21:30 It's a commandment: Say, produce your proof.
21:33 You say Jesus is God? What? Show me your proof.
21:37 You say Jesus is the Son of God, what is your proof?
21:39 I have physical proof that Jesus did not die.
21:47 The true identity of Jesus happens to be in Surah 19, which has the most powerful code.
21:57 It has five letters in front of it. You want to go look at Surah 19? Look at the beginning of Surah 19.
22:09 See the first verse, page 206, K.H.Y.'A.S.
22:17 And when you add up these letters in this chapter, their total is 798, which is divisible by 19.
22:24 And this is the chapter, in fact, that describes the true identity of Jesus, who he is.
22:32 And we have, inshallah, our next book will be based on this chapter, in fact, Jesus and the Truth.
22:39 And we're going to describe Jesus, his miracles, his life, and the story of the crucifixion.
22:46 Because he was not crucified.
22:53 So in February or March or so, now we have the visual presentation of the miracles.
23:00 And we're going to have a book, Quran, Hadith, and Islam.
23:07 The Arabic version of the visual presentation of the Quran came to the community in Arabic.
23:11 And the Arabic book also. And then, the next project will be Jesus and the Truth.
23:18 So in that book, we will be able to present proof to them of the identity of Jesus.
23:31 so they said no one will enter heaven
23:33 unless they are Jewish or Christian.
23:35 Like we said repeatedly before,
23:37 if you go to any group of
23:39 any religion and they tell you this is the only group
23:41 that's going to heaven,
23:42 you better leave right away. It's a fraud.
23:46 Because God will not
23:50 will not restrict
23:51 His mercy to a group of
23:53 Muslims,
23:55 or Christians, or Jews, Hindus, or what?
23:59 God's mercy will encompass anyone who worships God alone.
24:03 Who recognizes God.
24:06 The One who created the heavens and the earth.
24:09 Now people say, I believe in God, and in their mind, God is Jesus.
24:14 Then they are wrong.
24:16 Because Jesus did not create the heavens and the earth.
24:19 So when they worship God alone,
24:22 they have in mind the omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe.
24:28 The one who runs every minute detail in the universe.
24:31 And that's not Jesus, or Mary, or Muhammad, or any of the others.
24:37 So God says here, "Say, show us your proof, if you are truthful."
24:42 Indeed, whoever submits to God.
24:45 Notice it doesn't say any Muslim who submits to God.
24:48 It says, whoever submits to God.
24:50 You can be a Buddhist, for all that you know. A Buddhist who grew up as a Buddhist,
24:56 and then he came to a conclusion that the only one to be worshipped is God, who
25:01 created this universe. If that person submits to God, and he will be taken care of, God
25:08 will inspire him to make Ruku' and Sujud, on their own, by instinct. God will
25:14 teach them to make prostrations, and to be righteous. Whoever submits to God while leading
25:21 a righteous life, have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve.
25:29 And the Jews said, the Christians have no basis, and the Christians said, the Jews
25:34 have no basis, though both of them read the scripture. Those who possess no knowledge
25:41 have uttered similar utterances. God will judge them on the Day of Resurrection
25:46 regarding their dispute. Who is more evil than one who forbids others from attending
25:51 the mosques of God wherein His name is commemorated, and seeks to have them deserted?
26:00 These ought not to enter therein except fearfully.
26:04 These have deserved humiliation in this life, and terrible retribution in the hereafter.
26:10 Now, every time you see the word God here, you should bear in mind that it is God alone.
26:15 If you remember the first commandment in Submission, is to believe in God.
26:22 And this means believing God alone.
26:25 That only He is to be worshiped.
26:32 To God belong the East and the West.
26:34 Now this is verse 114, it is very important, we must encourage rather than discourage attending the mosques.
26:48 There are many commandments in Quran that tell us to stick together,
26:52 because God inspires us as a group, through one of us, and we learn a lot.
27:03 And verse 114 shows that who is more evil than one who forbids others from attending the mosques of God.
27:09 That's the maximum evilness.
27:18 So this is all we do here in this mosque.
27:20 We commemorate the name of God.
27:24 We study His word.
27:27 because we want to follow what God wants
27:32 so now who is more evil
27:33 than forbidding them?
27:38 Now, verse 115,
27:39 we touched
27:40 on this before.
27:46 Wherever you turn,
27:49 there is the face of God.
27:53 God is Omnipresent, Omniscient.
27:55 They said, "God has begotten a son!"
27:59 Glory be to Him.
28:01 Nay, to Him belongs everything in the heavens and the earth;
28:04 all are subservient to Him.
28:07 He is the Initiator of the heavens and the earth.
28:09 Whenever He decrees a matter,
28:11 He only says to it, "Be," and it is.
28:16 Those who do not know
28:18 said, "If only God could speak to us,
28:21 or a miracle come to us, we would then believe."
28:27 Thus did those before them say
28:29 the same utterances; their hearts are similar.
28:33 We have made the revelations clear for people who have attained
28:37 certainty. We have sent you with the truth as a
28:41 bearer of good news and a warner. You are not
28:45 answerable for the dwellers of Hell. Neither the Jews nor the Christians will accept you
28:51 unless you follow their religion. Say, "God's guidance is the true guidance." And if you
28:58 ever acquiesce to their wishes, after the knowledge has come to you, you will find no one to help
29:04 you against God. Those to whom we have given the scripture and read it as it should be read, will believe in it.
29:11 As for those who disbelieve in it, they are the losers.
29:16 O Children of Israel, remember the blessings I bestowed upon you, and that I set you apart from all the worlds.
29:28 Be aware of the Day when no soul can avail another, no ransom will be accepted, nor will any intercession be useful.
29:46 Well, my understanding is already that God is everywhere, but then when He says "to the East and
29:52 the West." And I know there's the East and West. And then somewhere else where God says, "I'm the God of the
29:58 two Easts and the two Wests." You know, that's kind of... but it doesn't make a difference, you know.
30:04 You know that in a new work, they have the, you know, some of the people move on to explaining with graphs for people.
30:12 As to the two Easts, there's one interpretation, that is that the two Easts
30:17 are the east of the sun and the east of the moon.
30:20 The moonrise and the sunrise, and the moonset and the sunset.
30:27 Because in Arabic, the place of sunrise is also called the East.
30:32 I don't know why they call it the East.
30:35 Yeah.
30:37 Well that's a
30:40 not acceptable interpretation,
30:41 that's it.
30:44 But wherever you may turn,
30:45 you are in the presence of God.
30:47 Wherever you turn, it is up to
30:49 the presence of Him, and God is everywhere.
30:51 That He is omnipresent is the essence of our submission.
30:53 Can you put this in the form of a question?
30:54 No, I was going to say, as you said
30:56 in all of these translations, you said
30:57 if the sun rises at a point, and then at the winter solstice it rises at a different point, so in between those points, that's what he has in his footnotes, that's what he's saying, that's what it appears to be.
31:10 The sun's rising point varies from one...
31:13 Actually, the sun rises from a different point every day.
31:15 Well, he's saying in between all of that. I think that's what he was saying.
31:21 There is another verse where it is "Lord of the East and West," and "Lord of the two Easts and the Lord of the two Wests."
31:28 That's what he's saying in those verses.
31:30 Yeah.
31:31 Yeah, there are other verses.
31:33 There are also East and West all over the universe.
31:37 If you are, when you go to the moon, there's an earthrise.
31:42 Did you take a picture of the earthrise yet?
31:45 Yeah, I haven't seen it yet.
31:46 I don't know.
31:47 I don't know.
31:48 Can you send this kind of message to her?
31:52 No.
31:57 No.
31:58 No.
32:00 No.
32:04 No.
32:10 No.
32:10 You can keep those two girls apart.
32:18 Let's keep them apart
32:19 so we can have a conversation.
32:32 Verse 116.
32:33 They said, "God has begotten a son."
32:36 Glory be to Him.
32:38 That right there is the greatest blasphemy.
32:49 And then the Christians, or whoever believes in Jesus Christ being the son of God, they
32:55 also give glory to him, which is a praise that they should be giving to God.
33:01 And I hear God saying, "Nay," which is no. "To Him belongs all, everything in the heavens and on
33:07 earth, and all are in service to Him," saying that everything in the heavens and the earth
33:12 and everything between them belongs to God alone, and all are in service to
33:18 Him, and to Him alone. And if you find anybody else or a spirit or anything else that's a partner
33:26 with Him, then you are out of it. And that's it. And also, you can ask yourself, when Christians
33:38 and other people who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, if they would just ask
33:43 themselves this couple of questions, as to, you know, where was God? You know?
33:50 So he was once a baby, helpless, you see, and who made the earth and all that kind of stuff? He was a baby. What was he then?
34:26 First of all, they say
34:27 He had to give His son for our sins, which means He is unable to forgive. That's a
34:36 blasphemy in itself.
34:37 If God wants to forgive the world, why can't He forgive the world? Why does He have to
34:42 give up His son?
34:44 Second, they see Him as a helpless father. Any one of us would hate to see it when somebody
34:51 tortures their son or their children.
34:54 .
34:54 .
34:56 .
34:59 .
35:00 .
35:00 .
35:00 .
35:01 .
35:02 .
35:02 .
35:04 So they see God as a helpless
35:07 entity.
35:08 And all of these ideas are so blasphemous
35:10 that again, at the end of Surah 19,
35:13 I will request you again
35:15 to go back to that Surah
35:16 about Mary and Jesus,
35:17 Surah 19 at the end.
35:21 This is the most
35:22 descriptive,
35:23 the most descriptive verses about the sonship
35:26 of Jesus,
35:28 on the great blasphemy.
35:30 They say,
35:31 "The Most Gracious has begotten a son." Indeed, you have uttered a gross blasphemy.
35:37 The heavens are about to shatter, the earth is about to burst, and the mountains are about to crumble upon hearing such a claim.
35:47 It is not befitting for the Most Gracious that He should take a son.
35:53 Every single one in the heavens and the earth is no more than a servant of the Most Gracious.
35:57 He has counted every single one of them, and each will come before Him as an
36:02 individual on the Day of Resurrection. So you can see how the description of the blasphemy is,
36:09 the mountains are about to crumble apart, just blow up in the air, from a statement like that.
36:21 That's why every time the Quran repeats this claim, it is followed by Subhanallah.
36:26 to come and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
36:31 What's your love for the Lord Jesus Christ?
36:33 Okay, so
36:35 being there like me,
36:37 we talk to people, I can ask them all
36:39 stuff, you know,
36:40 questions like that.
36:43 So, you know,
36:44 sometimes we can even
36:48 ask
36:49 if he needed a
36:50 perfect man or
36:54 a servant of God
36:55 and not God himself.
37:02 And if God wanted to have
37:04 what he did, as a lot of
37:06 Christians and a lot of people say that Jesus Christ
37:09 in the name of
37:10 Jesus Christ,
37:11 he didn't say he was going to
37:13 be reborn
37:16 and do all kinds of things.
37:17 Again, that's saying that
37:19 God himself can't do it by
37:21 himself. If he needed someone
37:23 that's a disgrace.
37:26 He's a little proud man.
37:31 And they make it like he can do all the work.
37:35 Where he really, you know, they put him up with God.
37:38 And a lot of people are saying that, and it's not giving God any credit.
37:43 And then they really look at it as, you know, God is all powerful, which they know that.
37:48 You know, you can say it's big.
37:50 And it is.
37:51 But then, you know, like they did with Jesus. You know, He said, 'Be,' and it was. And people overlook all those signs and things because they take this life as the only life that they're going to ever have.
38:05 And so everything that they hear, and everything that comes by, they take it as truth.
38:11 When it's not.
38:13 It makes you realize that this is a time for us to try to get with God and recognize Him and submit to Him fully.
38:23 Without becoming best friends to the devil, where all he wants is to prey on you, and his promise is to doom you.
38:30 And this is not the real life.
38:32 I mean, you know, a lot of people, when they come into a belief, and one of these is believing in God, like you said, they interpret different interpretations, because to me, God is God. But to other people, God may be Jesus Christ, or God may be Mary, or God may be their mother, or father, or husband, or their children, you know. They interpret it as different things.
38:55 And so when you come into dealing with God, you've got to commit totally to Him if you want things to be for you and then He wants to take care of you in the real life.
39:07 So you can't go around believing that Jesus Christ is God.
39:12 And you can't go around believing that Jesus Christ is God because he has no part.
39:16 The only part he played was to come and deliver the message and show people what they can do if they believe and worship God alone.
39:25 And this is why my understanding is, that in the end, God don't need nobody.
39:32 He's not God, and that's all he was, Jesus Christ. Even though we all love him and respect him for what he did.
39:38 He's dead and he's gone. And he's gotta worry about his case, and we all have to worry about ours.
39:45 You only need to visualize what will happen at the Day of Resurrection where people will actually go to Jesus.
39:51 I tell you, you mean you're not going to save us?
39:56 What are you talking about? I have to answer for myself.
40:00 I'm with you, you know, we're all in this crowd, we're all here for God.
40:03 So, you have a question?
40:21 They say that Jesus saw God.
40:37 Good question. A very good question.
40:40 The people, you know, when they hear things like that,
40:45 they need to ask themselves,
40:48 you know, like the story that Jesus Christ went through a wall, appeared in a small room, and sat down there.
40:55 I mean, and you know that everything from the moon, the stars, the birds, the powerful forces, all the different colors of our skins, are signs and proofs.
41:04 And then Jesus Christ was the only one who saw Him? When the mountain crumbled to dust and all that?
41:10 And Jesus Christ, who couldn't, you know, stand watch for an hour or so at this time, and yet he can see God?
41:24 Even if He saw God, if He was the most perfect creature, He's still a creature, He's still a man.
41:32 And if He did see God, it's only because of God's grace that God allowed Him to see Him.
41:37 And this doesn't make him any different from any one of us.
41:41 We must believe that we are all capable of being like him, or better than him.
41:47 We have that capability.
41:51 Yeah, but we didn't. I mean, we don't want to go away from the truth.
41:55 The fact is that the Quran doesn't mention any of his sins or any mistakes, so he could have been sinless.
42:02 Or maybe the Quran just didn't mention any of his sins, if he did sin.
42:06 Whether he was sinless, whether he was perfect, whether he saw God, or he didn't see God,
42:11 it all doesn't make any difference.
42:13 But the truth is, there's only one God, and one true God.
42:17 And we mustn't think that Jesus is God.
42:20 He is a human, a frail man, and he is dead.
42:23 So if he's dead,
42:26 then he can't help anybody.
42:31 We must forget about anyone else
42:34 as a helper. Muhammad or Jesus
42:36 or Mary or a saint or anyone.
42:38 We must forget them.
42:40 It's what they want. It's what God wants.
42:43 It's the only way we can
42:44 be saved. And Satan's
42:46 job is to inject
42:48 other names besides God.
42:53 We need it.
42:54 Yeah? I have a question about
42:56 when you show us a proof
42:58 from the scripture on Jesus,
43:00 after the crucifixion.
43:01 And...
43:02 And, when you talk about the story of Jesus, the main point that they make is that he was resurrected, that he didn't die. So, how do I answer that he was not resurrected?
43:13 What is the proof?
43:14 Well, they will show you the Bible and say that's the proof.
43:18 You cannot hang your salvation on a story. You have to have proof.
43:24 But there's nothing in the Quran about a resurrection of Jesus.
43:28 There is something about him being raised; he was raised to God before the crucifixion, but there
43:37 is no resurrection of the body.
43:44 The body was left on the cross and was buried, the body doesn't belong to you anymore, once
43:51 you leave it, it's like you took off a shirt and threw it away.
43:59 But what about that part in the Bible about him rising up and going and seeing the disciples afterwards?
44:07 that's you know the scholars say that's added on to the scripture because originally all the gospels
44:13 only went up to the fact that the stone was gone from the from the grave and then there's the
44:21 the one that's added on in some of the Bibles, put it, you know, like in italics, because
44:26 it's the, you know, there's, you know, they admit it, but they don't know that that's
44:30 part of the effect.
44:31 Not only, I mean, this is, this can be considered a divine sense of humor, because every time
44:39 they play in the Bible, there's a scandalous exposure of that play. For example, when they
44:48 they played with Abraham's son, who was being supposed to be sacrificed, they
44:55 made him Isaac instead of Ishmael. But you see the contradiction very deeply,
45:01 when it says Ishmael was born to Abraham, and 14 years later
45:06 Isaac was born to Abraham. And then they say, God said to Abraham, take your only
45:11 son, and then they inserted Isaac, and sacrificed him. But Isaac was never the
45:17 only son. So it's a very clear mistake. And the same thing happened with this resurrection
45:24 business. They said he stayed in the grave how long?
45:28 Three days.
45:29 Three days. But when you look, when you read the details, it's really 48 hours.
45:34 Not even that much.
45:35 Not even 48 hours.
45:38 It's about 6 o'clock on Saturday.
45:41 Friday.
45:42 Oh, Friday.
45:43 Did they crucify him on Friday?
45:44 Yeah, okay, but it went down at sunset before the Sabbath, right?
45:49 Right.
45:49 Okay, yeah.
45:50 Okay, so 6 o'clock on the Friday night till before 6 o'clock on Sunday night.
45:56 Which makes it less than 48 hours.
45:58 18 hours.
46:00 No.
46:00 24, 30 hours.
46:04 I can't, man.
46:05 Get the calculator.
46:08 Anyway, it's nowhere near the three days that they are making, they don't correct it.
46:13 I mean, even now in the 20th century, enlightened priests and ministers will stand in the pulpit
46:19 and say, and he stayed in the grave three days and three nights.
46:22 But if you read the Bible, you'll find out it's not even two days.
46:27 And this is always the case, because the people who played in the Bible were great, great,
46:32 great-great-grandparents of ours, who, I'm not insulting you when I say, think of your
46:37 own grandfather, you know, and how simple-minded he was. All of them. Those grandparents who
46:44 Look at what happened with 19, because in the last 50 years, there was an information explosion.