1 - Biblical Texts Through the Quran & Ahlulbayt- Intro - Sayed Mohammed Hassan Alsheraa

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Lesson 1 - Biblical Texts Through the Quran & Ahlulbayt Intro Christianity & Judaism Sayed Mohammed Hassan Alsheraa

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[0:28]aldam my dear respect brothers and sisters I sincerely welcome you to

[0:40]this new class where we will be looking and examining into a

[0:45]very understudied and even underappreciated subject within Islamic history contrary to what

[0:54]many might imagine the following discussion is very much intertwined with Islamic

[1:01]history because Islam brings a great deal of attention focus emphasis on

[1:07]the previous scripture on the tat the injil the Psalms of David

[1:15]the zabur the ancient lessons that are there you find constantly riddled

[1:21]throughout the Holy Quran that Islam emphasizes the previous scripture with such

[1:27]a great deal of emphasis one can only imagine that Allah subhah

[1:32]wa taala wants you and I to better understand and appreciate the

[1:38]efforts that it took to crystallize to spread the sacrifices from the

[1:50]previous Prophets The like such as Isa Jesus Son of Mariam m

[1:57]b Iman D all in all this is an element that is

[2:02]very much intertwined with Islamic theology therefore I sincerely welcome you all

[2:09]to the biblical text through the Quran and class and insh it

[2:13]will be an eight- part Series in the near future uh we

[2:19]may even expand more to this therefore I believe what better way

[2:23]to begin a class about the Bible let's say then by mentioning

[2:34]the beautiful introduction to inaugurate this class how IM talks about Jesus

[2:42]Son of Mary mentions a Hadith where he introduces for us and

[2:53]inshallah from now until the end of the course keep this as

[3:00]your vision that the they love these previous prophets and the previous

[3:05]prophets also love the so what better way to begin than with

[3:09]the of the reminder of regarding he says and if you desire

[3:21]I will speak about Jesus Son of Mary for he would rest

[3:29]upon hard surfaces meaning he was exempt from the luxuries of this

[3:34]life and he would wear rough clothing he wasn't invested in the

[3:43]luxuries the royalties that this duny had to offer everything was at

[3:47]his disposal but he wore rough clothing and he would have his

[3:57]food be coarse as well hunger was his condiment the moon was

[4:07]his lamp the moon at night was his lamp that would be

[4:10]the only way he would guide himself at night if Allah subh

[4:15]if at night there was no way of guiding through light through

[4:21]a source that would illuminate and radiate his path the moon was

[4:27]ited if you at night the moon was his lamp and he

[4:41]would continue by describing and the horizons of the earth its East

[4:53]and West were his shelter in the winter and his fruit and

[5:05]fragrant herbs by night were what the Earth brought forth for the

[5:11]cattle meaning would often share his meals like the cattle would share

[5:18]their meals he would eat whatever they simple humble atic what we

[5:23]describe in Islamic theology a he was a in that way he

[5:31]had no wife to distract him and he had no son or

[5:37]child to grieve him nor wealth to divert him his only Mount

[5:50]were his feet meaning he barely rode on modes of transportation if

[5:55]he wanted to travel he was just going to walk that's According

[5:58]to some traditions from the term it would constantly travel often and

[6:09]his hands were his only servants often times people think these Grand

[6:14]individuals might have slaves at their disposal AIDS and servants see how

[6:23]we say we are all their servants hisam or his hands that's

[6:26]why he would use his own hands to wash the feet of

[6:29]those who were under privilege I began with thisi of IM introducing

[6:35]as our inaugural opening to this course the biblical text in light

[6:40]of the Quran and and I welcome you all who had just

[6:44]walked in and attended and of course I welcome the several who

[6:48]are online as well additionally and by the way just just some

[6:52]I guess class ground rules feel free to jump in ask interrupt

[6:56]scream no don't do that but just jump in and raise your

[7:00]hands and just comment if you have any questions or if things

[7:04]are not so clear yes sister we have trouble finding the class

[7:07]I think someone's still looking for it as in like physically we

[7:09]we will send we will send one of the to go find

[7:17]the long lost student yeah no thank you for letting us know

[7:21]but in that light if there are any questions maybe even just

[7:27]about the uh jump in jump in I don't mind at all

[7:28]I don't save the question questions for that especially additionally for our

[7:31]beloved brothers and sisters who are online tuning in um please feel

[7:37]free to comment your questions in the chat log and we will

[7:40]definitely address you as well inum now having given a brief summary

[7:50]of the vision of this kind of course the question begs itself

[7:54]why such a class often times people think listen man we need

[8:01]to work on the Quran and developing that relationship we need to

[8:04]focus on our literature on our Islamic tradition don't you feel that

[8:11]that's a valid argument Brother Ali that sometimes people might make that

[8:15]claim listen you're going to take us to the in you're going

[8:17]to rewind 5,000 years to the toat wait a second the Quran

[8:22]we need to formulate and strengthen our relationship with so why such

[8:27]a class for example you have any ideas like what would be

[8:30]the motive for emphasizing researching this element what would you say brother

[8:40]how about you how long do you have an answer just an

[8:47]answer an answer U probably the best answer that I can think

[8:50]of is um the Quran in many places is half of the

[8:57]dialogue okay in order for us to understand the baggage that is

[9:00]addressing to see what they came so upon looking into the Quran

[9:05]we realize the Quran often references and cites these resources these literatures

[9:10]uh these Traditions so I mean it doesn't hurt to if the

[9:13]Quran is doing it why don't we just copy the Quran in

[9:16]that regard that's one thing as well brother what would you share

[9:19]in that regard if you don't mind the steps that built up

[9:24]to Quran my understanding it's that um these previous monotheistic religions were

[9:27]there to get the people ready for yeah so to know backgr

[9:33]and our steps buil up tolam so to look at the Timeline

[9:35]that eventually brought forth Islam essentially you know and of course if

[9:38]you look at the historical timeline clearly there's an order the first

[9:44]of which you one can argue the toat right the Old Testament

[9:46]as one many might call it then the in the gospels the

[9:51]Bible the New Testament as many will call it right um so

[9:53]those are all very good reasons SS would you happen to share

[9:58]anything in that regard like why such a class y with the

[10:00]question in mind of when should our priority be our Traditions our

[10:05]literature in the non School of I will say this that it

[10:12]is discouraged to study other religions in the non School of there

[10:16]is a Hadith by to which he says he came upon someone

[10:19]reading the Bible and so he was aggressive to his uh Behavior

[10:25]wide study of the Bible there's only one way of Allah um

[10:27]we don't necessarily Embrace such a manner we believe that why would

[10:30]you restrict Elm you know knowledge shouldn't be confined just because you

[10:34]Embrace that worldview or not you may not necessarily need to be

[10:39]a Buddhist to go and study Buddhism because you see how significant

[10:42]it is in the lives of other people so let's just look

[10:47]at what's going on that kind of thing um any other thoughts

[10:49]as to why such a yes sister I would say at its

[10:53]heart all the religions as that are monotheistic kind of stem from

[10:57]the same point so understanding the perspectives from um the Bible or

[11:01]the Torah kind of sees how over time the Rel the religions

[11:06]have kind of changed they come together so in one way we

[11:09]we all share something in in common and so for that reason

[11:14]there is a common denominator between the other teachings and the other

[11:18]traditions and for that reason because I have something related to you

[11:21]why not learn more about you appreciate you you know we all

[11:26]stem from that same n for example and the eye of the

[11:27]Quran um Echoes what you're saying in the sense of ibraim don't

[11:33]say he was Jewish don't say he was Christian rather he was

[11:37]Muslim I thought Islam came with it turns out here Muslim means

[11:43]those who submit to Allah on the way he wants to be

[11:45]Worship in that context Adam was the first of these Muslims on

[11:50]life so for that reason Christianity proper Christianity was Islam proper Judaism

[11:55]was Islam and because it's Islam and I'm a Muslim I have

[12:01]a greater right to that Judaism than Jews today I have a

[12:05]greater right than that Christianity than Christians today so why not take

[12:10]what's rightfully ours religiously speaking from an intellectual point of view and

[12:13]study it I have two reasons number one practical pragmatically for fostering

[12:22]a deeper appreciation for your own beliefs you can actually ironically by

[12:26]the way ironically I say this because one would imagine if you

[12:29]want to appreciate your own belief study your own belief I would

[12:31]say not just that study other beliefs you will then come and

[12:39]realize how beautiful of a your belief is I I did my

[12:41]masters in religious studies at Detroit Mercy it's the largest private Roman

[12:46]Catholic University in Michigan so it's Roman Catholic my teachers were all

[12:51]priests most of them um and so I was you know picked

[12:56]on by some of my friends here maybe some of them are

[13:00]in this class as well who were saying say after some time

[13:02]are we going to see you become Christian are you gonna wear

[13:06]a cross later so a few months has passed okay and the

[13:09]same Brothers asked me what's your status you know just teasing me

[13:15]and I said I am more confident in Islam now why this

[13:17]isn't by the way to be uh throwing lower Jabs at other

[13:23]teachings but I said to myself genuinely for strictly looking at things

[13:28]academically speaking removing Dogma this is just the word of God so

[13:30]you have to accept it whatever just looking at it academically objectively

[13:34]if that's the alternative alhamdulillah for Islam looking at some of the

[13:40]teachings the Juris Prudential laws of the Torah the beliefs that you

[13:43]are told to just have faith in but you're not given necessarily

[13:49]logical reasons the Trinity for example Concepts such as original sin um

[13:53]the contradictions the conflictions between scripture to scripture I don't mind having

[13:56]contradictions even within our own literature by at least we don't slap

[14:00]necessarily the title on top of it and you're bound to whatever

[14:05]is in there except the Holy Quran that's the way when it

[14:09]comes to a majority of these texts and I'm like that's not

[14:14]I have more IM a prophet doing something abhorent but because it's

[14:18]in the Torah you have to embrace thear yeah this is this

[14:21]was this was how ibraim was this was how Sarah was this

[14:25]was how Adam was straight up misogynistic what can I say this

[14:29]was for example y was he was a what we would call

[14:33]in modern day context a prankster he would pull pranks on people

[14:36]that's a prophet of God this was how NE was you have

[14:40]to embrace him like I can't Embrace that ibraim deceiving you know

[14:43]in the narrative we'll come to this inshallah in in a few

[14:48]other classes but just to emphasize fostering a deeper appreciation for your

[14:51]own beliefs as one of the reasons why we should study other

[14:53]the these other Traditions you have a story like in Genesis which

[15:00]is one of the books uh of the um Old Testament we

[15:02]call them one of the five books the first one Genesis we'll

[15:07]talk about this by the way thoroughly ibraim you've heard of the

[15:11]story how he has to sacrifice one of his sons in Islam

[15:16]he used to sacrifice who which is the son that he has

[15:19]to sacrifice for the sake of Allah it's is in the old

[15:25]Jewish scripture let's say the let's say the Old Testament it is

[15:29]is Isaac but that doesn't make too much of a big deal

[15:36]for us the big deal is in Islam he asks his son

[15:39]I see in my dream I see I have to slaughter you

[15:47]what do you think what do you see he says oh my

[15:48]father do what you have been ordered he calls him he calls

[15:59]him there's love in Dearing words so this permission give and take

[16:03]consent in the Torah there is no consent he in fact dupes

[16:06]him he says uh son we have to go slaughter a lamb

[16:11]for God a burnt offering so come with me to the hill

[16:13]ibraim brings with him two servants for purposes of what to hold

[16:19]him down as he's going to slaughter him because he knows he's

[16:22]going to resist so his son is going on a hill this

[16:25]is all in the Old Testament basically going to the hill he's

[16:28]thinking he's going to to slaughter a lamb a sheep and he's

[16:33]carrying the firewood he's carrying his own firewood thinking it's going to

[16:36]be for some other purpose as he's on top ibraim goes to

[16:38]slaughter him the servants are holding him back from resisting just before

[16:44]he finishes the job God says stop stop you passed the problem

[16:46]is we don't ask what happened to the son afterwards he's so

[16:49]traumatized he runs away he hates his father basically I'm not staying

[16:55]here what was that you told me something you didn't convince me

[16:59]my my teacher he's a uh practicing Christian one of my professors

[17:04]and basically he said listen uh I believe in all this but

[17:09]and we are supposed to Champion Abraham for this moment but if

[17:12]you were to tell me to slaughter my son I will tell

[17:16]you I'm out I'm not doing this like but God told you

[17:17]he's like uhuh and now so in my case I I can

[17:22]justify this why because the Quran to us his son is a

[17:27]nebbi so he knows he has a responsibility there's consent he sees

[17:30]in his dream he's not duping him or deceiving him it's not

[17:34]traumatic he's running away from home so I never usually like to

[17:37]jump in and said you know I like to do the whole

[17:40]but in Islam you know we have it like this I just

[17:43]do my job and I want to leave right but in this

[17:44]case I saw actually some of the Christians in the class questioning

[17:51]this if the big teacher right is saying this was not moral

[17:54]and I kind of I almost found myself defending Christianity I was

[17:57]like hold on hold on listen if if you're the kind of

[18:01]person who receives emails from the heavens every single day clearly you're

[18:04]just following rules as Abraham is right you know what he said

[18:07]he's like yeah but maybe one of those emails could be spam

[18:11]what do I do in Islam how we Square this circle is

[18:16]this I would agree I would disagree with that as well with

[18:18]with due love and respect to the Christians and the Jews who

[18:23]are obedient to their text I this is not moral you have

[18:24]to lie to him to give him this then he's traumatized and

[18:28]he only returns WI he never sees his dad ever again his

[18:33]son just to come and bury him that's it whereas in Islam

[18:36]there's like a love relationship my my son doesn't say my beloved

[18:41]Son what does he say not my ab my beloved father there's

[18:46]a lot of love going on here because ibraim is what abim

[18:50]according to the ancient Hebrew merciful father he loves his family when

[18:55]ibraim is given the status of IM Global Divine leadership what's the

[19:02]first thing he says what about my family he loves his family

[19:07]so much so one narrative makes you look at your narrative and

[19:12]you're like I have now fostered a deeper appreciation for my narrative

[19:16]it's important you study other scriptures because that's like here's the alternative

[19:19]which one morally is more sound for you ethically because if these

[19:24]are supposed to be God's Divine Representatives who issue injunctions on a

[19:28]daily basis basis through Revelation I need you to be on your

[19:33]act otherwise if you're not on your act then I'm not going

[19:35]to be who why would I be that's why in Islamic theology

[19:40]Every Act that was must recommended was an obligation on the and

[19:44]the prophet and the other prophets because if they don't do it

[19:48]why would I bother doing it so it was an obligation what

[19:51]was must what is must for us is W for them what

[19:57]was Mak or is Mak for us is what Haram for them

[20:01]why because if they're doing it and we're told to avoid it

[20:04]but it's not a sin then I'm not going to avoid it

[20:08]if they are not doing the must and we're told you should

[20:10]do it I could easily Go Ya Allah well they didn't do

[20:14]it why would I do it so for them the standard was

[20:18]higher in this case and in this circumstance one reason why we

[20:22]look at previous literature that is considered by the way Divine it

[20:26]is considered Divine because there is a legitimacy to a degree today

[20:30]with this literature it may not be fully and we'll talk about

[20:34]that actually in a few more minutes the status of the Bible

[20:37]what is the Bible how do we determine the reality and the

[20:43]authenticity and the truth of the Bible as the Quran describes it

[20:49]it has new it has light to it okay is that light

[20:51]diminished or is it still there is it safe to say we're

[20:57]going to retrospectively go back back and look at the Bible and

[21:00]to find the truth is that safe for us to do as

[21:04]in can I open the book and say I know this was

[21:07]not the truth Jesus turning water into wine I don't think Allah

[21:11]would but this line is true can we do that can we

[21:16]find a a proof an a a an a binding truth we

[21:20]can call that a uh from the old scripture these are things

[21:23]we will all inallah discuss so that's my my basic first reason

[21:25]why you study these if people ask you you taking a Bible

[21:30]class as a Muslim like Yeah because it helps me Foster a

[21:32]better appreciation for my own faith like how come just open the

[21:40]first few lines and you'll understand the second reason is to help

[21:45]combat it ignorance that's it akin to what Brother Ali here mentioned

[21:49]um Allah subhana tala ordered us to seek and pursue knowledge I

[21:52]don't want to be ignorant in this life in this life you

[21:56]can be one of two things you can be literate in in

[22:01]in intellectuality you could have a degree of intellect or you could

[22:07]be ignorant I would rather be literate that's all for purposes of

[22:12]lot knowledge of knowing but it helps me combat ignorance it also

[22:17]looks great to non-muslims how non-muslims when you talk to them about

[22:22]their scripture like you meet a Christian who genuinely is proud to

[22:28]be Christian you know I I attend Mass I go to church

[22:31]I'm not just on Christmas Mr Christian I am every Sunday Mr

[22:39]Christian I actually go and I um confess my sins to the

[22:41]father in the church and I give him a tithing for example

[22:45]I'm I'm genuinely a Christian me of course they wouldn't call themselves

[22:52]they call that guy when you tell him oh yeah could you

[22:55]reference me where in Deuteronomy Moses describes himself as having died but

[23:00]you claimed that the Torah was written by Moses how can that

[23:02]be the same case if Moses wrote the Torah but he's talking

[23:05]about his death could you explain that like huh the fact that

[23:12]you're referencing Pages passages and I remember hearing when I spoke with

[23:16]a Christian once we had a back and forth not a debate

[23:18]but a back and forth on preservation of the Quran versus the

[23:21]the Bible when I was actually more impressed about how they were

[23:25]able to cite chapters of the Quran because they actually took the

[23:30]time to learn verses I as a Muslim value that you took

[23:35]your time to appreciate learning verses to come and say look what

[23:38]do they have to offer here are some of my issues does

[23:42]this verse really mean kill all disbelievers chapter 9 verse number five

[23:47]chapter 9 verse number five but then he look he's not using

[23:58]a book He's not using a iPad who's sitting there and he's

[24:00]like chapter 9 verse number five I'm like masallah yeah you you

[24:03]you you're not Fox News Fox News will just come and say

[24:09]the Quran says kill all not into you I heard from Fox

[24:11]News therefore I want to actually verify there's a lot of there's

[24:17]Fox News and there's fake news maybe they're both one of the

[24:20]same but in this case someone takes the effort to learn it

[24:26]really makes it clear that you actually value what you hear and

[24:30]you try to verify it when the Quran orders us whenever you

[24:34]hear some news if the source is questionable verify it always make

[24:41]sure you and when you do so it helps number one combat

[24:43]ignorance you're more intelligent you have a a degree of knowledge now

[24:48]that puts you above others as far as intellectuality additionally it makes

[24:54]you combat any islamophobe or any person that sees you guys as

[25:02]confined to your own space no I am Muslim not because of

[25:05]birth necessarily but because I studied your stuff so it gives you

[25:12]reason to back your claims and your words so for these reasons

[25:17]these are the two reasons I would argue are the primary ones

[25:24]for fostering a deeper appreciation for your own beliefs because if that's

[25:28]the alternative then goodness me man I'm staying here alhamdulillah secondly and

[25:34]by the way you will see how much the Quran comes and

[25:37]critiques for goodness sake critiques and corrects this is what they used

[25:42]to say you see verses like that this is what they would

[25:47]say about this is what they would say about Prophet D remember

[25:50]they would make fun of him so much until today they have

[25:54]this claim about him so the Quran critiques and corre and goes

[25:59]out of its way to say look this was what they said

[26:04]here's the reality of the case so for that reason and for

[26:10]the purpose of to help combat ignorance these Muslims they don't only

[26:13]walk the walk they talk the talk when they say they're Muslims

[26:16]it's because they've looked at our stuff and you're debating them and

[26:19]you're like bro they could reference our material much better than we

[26:22]can they know these Works they know what the gospel of Mark

[26:27]is they know the gospel of Matthew L Luke John they know

[26:29]the difference and by the way we'll talk about all of these

[26:33]things the difference between for example a synoptic gospel and a non

[26:37]synoptic gospel what's what does that even mean the first three are

[26:39]synoptic John is not but they're four altogether why is that the

[26:46]case who on Earth is this Paul guy never met Jesus but

[26:50]he made Christianity who is Paul for goodness sake why do they

[26:56]rever him the concept of the holy spirit being a Divine entity

[26:59]in the Triune of God is that in the gospel or is

[27:04]that some other iteration so when you reference all of these a

[27:07]Christian a non-muslim a Jew when you reference these scripture the Torah

[27:14]you will then make a claim that look I've done my part

[27:18]and I'm not ignorant I didn't inherit my religion I learned it

[27:22]how can I learn a religion if I didn't learn what's out

[27:26]there as well and just stick to one one day did you

[27:30]just wake up and put your hand in a ball oh this

[27:30]is the religion I'll Embrace La I had an advantage by being

[27:35]born into this alhamdulillah Allah blessed us in that regard definitely which

[27:39]doesn't mean that if I wasn't born into this that Allah didn't

[27:42]bless me Allah blessed me with a chance to find it now

[27:46]these are both Blessings by the way and Allah says in the

[27:49]Quran and whoever Embraces Islam after they were not embracing of Islam

[27:54]will get double the reward than the person born onto it because

[27:59]they had a disadvantage for example but in our case it's not

[28:02]like we were just given an option and we just kept it

[28:05]no we have to look at other things for these reasons that

[28:09]we mentioned and lastly as a religious duty to seek knowledge don't

[28:13]you just want knowledge that's it it is our duty as Muslims

[28:17]to emphasize to the following command of Allah Allah says in the

[28:24]Quran let there be a group from every party in the world

[28:33]if you're a m let there be a group from among you

[28:38]emerge and become more enriched and devote themselves to gaining and understanding

[28:46]religion the beautiful thing is what Allah says to devote themselves to

[28:56]gaining understanding in religion de not not what does that mean that

[29:09]means all of this is just religion religion isn't just the commands

[29:15]of the Quran restricted and that's it every aspect of life incorporates

[29:20]Dean in which way that if I go out of my way

[29:25]to make a living if it's done keeping Allah in mind I

[29:29]am manifesting my religion in this it's not just what is mentioned

[29:32]in the scripture as well means just go and gain knowledge everything

[29:38]you do in the process of gaining knowledge increases your religion increases

[29:43]your Iman so when I study non-islamic scripture let's just call it

[29:48]non-islamic I am improving my Islamic relationship in one way but this

[29:54]scripture happens to also be Islamic not as where it stands right

[30:02]now under the organized church or the churches or the various interpretations

[30:05]that there are Judaism and Christianity not as it stands right now

[30:11]but the truth was in this at one point could you all

[30:13]agree was the truth in it in other words if you were

[30:19]born in let us say let's say for example 29 CE we

[30:25]are what year we just entered 2025 man time flies subh right

[30:29]yeah 202 if you were 20 let's say if you were at

[30:35]the year 25 CE which religion would you have to follow if

[30:38]Jesus was preaching him whatever you want you're God's representative we see

[30:45]by the way in the scripture Jesus's mission according to Islam and

[30:49]actually even um most Christian Scholars is his mission was only 2

[30:54]years so he lived to be about 33 according to the gospel

[30:59]he was about 33 in Islam similarly as well there's a bit

[31:01]of a difference of opinion but there's a consensus in general no

[31:05]more than these couple few years in that time period if you

[31:08]around you have to follow him right it's not his fault that

[31:17]maybe authorities hierarchies come and decide to Tamper decide to do some

[31:23]change that's not his issue but if I was alive that time

[31:26]that's the dean means that's your Dean during the time M that's

[31:30]your Dean this Islam is your Dean now when a new Dean

[31:34]comes what happens to the old one can I stay on it

[31:35]no I can't I have to embrace what God tells me now

[31:39]Embrace but what does that mean for back then that means you

[31:44]can still look back and see what are the lessons and wisdoms

[31:47]that remain there the IMs of they named their children after some

[31:52]of the prophets of Allah what's his first name why in our

[31:59]is more Superior than yes that's our because he's an IM but

[32:05]the man he's named after his is no longer applicable so why

[32:14]is another Shar taking lessons from him because these lessons are Universal

[32:19]that's why Allah brings these stories in the Quran that's why you

[32:23]hear Allah brings so m is the most mentioned prophet in the

[32:27]Quran the prophet of Islam how many times by name is he

[32:33]mentioned in the Holy Quran four times Isa a number of times

[32:42]M A lot of times there are so many why if you

[32:43]would think based on what one would imagine would be the order

[32:48]of how things work on what's new what's old what's outdated what's

[32:51]updated the new would get more attention not necessarily because it's old

[32:56]doesn't mean it's still not applicable today but yes there has been

[33:01]a lot of tampering so segueing from this discussion on tampering and

[33:07]things like that what is the status of the Jewish and Christian

[33:11]Bible according to Islam Today what is the status of itah Bak

[33:19]chapter 2 verse 75 tells us do not hope oh Believers that

[33:31]they would believe you that they would believe for you while a

[33:36]party of them used to hear the words of Allah and then

[33:41]distort it after they had understood it while they were knowing me

[33:46]meaning they would distort what they heard from the words of Allah

[33:49]back in the day they heard Revelation but not from Allah directly

[33:56]from Allah's Representatives these are the Christians these were the Jews Allah

[34:01]is telling the holy prophet of Islam that don't Hope Oh Believers

[34:04]that they would believe for you while a party of them used

[34:10]to hear the words of Allah and then distort it after they

[34:12]had understood it while they were knowing meaning they knew this was

[34:14]the truth they still changed it another verse tells us that among

[34:20]those who are Jews are those who distort words from their proper

[34:24]usages and say we hear and disobey yeah they almost embrace the

[34:29]idea that look I heard it yeah I'm not going to follow

[34:32]it I know what you said I'm not interested in following it

[34:36]it's not in my interest the Quran brings us so many examples

[34:39]the Quran would tell them listen uh God has ordered you guys

[34:43]not to fish on Saturdays that's the Sabbath it's a holy day

[34:49]you can't work so what did they do we'll find a loophole

[34:54]on Fridays we'll cast our net Saturday we just can't do anything

[34:57]Sunday we'll bring the net back in the thing is you're trying

[35:02]to trick Allah can Allah be tricked he like and then they

[35:04]would say we didn't fish yeah but you're not you can't fool

[35:10]Allah Allah said don't fish you had it passively happen and Allah

[35:15]condemned that so when Allah says that they would say we hear

[35:18]and disobey that means they're saying I know the truth I'm going

[35:21]to distort it I'm going to distort so the scripture today according

[35:29]to Islam has been distorted means distortions it doesn't necessarily mean that

[35:37]words were taken or words were added necessarily it means distorted in

[35:44]any way if a word was taken out that would not be

[35:49]called it would just mean yeah they wrongfully tampered with the words

[35:55]of Allah but to distort it would be like now we're going

[35:59]to add more to it that God did not say and we're

[36:00]going to take out what we don't like completely just making it

[36:05]your own thing there's also the concealment of the truth so there's

[36:09]Distortion but then there's also there's an element of the truth let's

[36:12]just hide it we're not going to add to it we're just

[36:15]going to hide it Allah says and do not mix the truth

[36:18]and falsehood or conceal the truth while you know it some interpreters

[36:21]suggest this refers to hiding or altering parts of the scripture do

[36:25]not mix the truth and falsehood there's there's and there's they would

[36:32]like you know just put this together it's true but we don't

[36:34]want it to be true that's what happens all people of the

[36:38]scripture there has come to you our messenger making clear to you

[36:42]much of what you used to conceal of the scripture and overlooking

[36:46]much the Quran acknowledges that here comes a meaning he's going to

[36:53]make it clear to you that what much of what you guys

[36:56]concealed would address the Clans like um and Nan for example the

[37:06]Christian of the Nani group of of Yemen the Jewish groups of

[37:12]Medina he's like listen Allah is ordering them this Prophet has come

[37:16]he's going to show you what you used to hide and so

[37:22]that happens other ayat and we'll wrap up with this Ayah um

[37:26]Bak chapter 2 verse number 79 so woe to those who write

[37:34]the scripture with their own hands as the parallel says woe upon

[37:45]those the book of Allah you wrote it yourself you're not supposed

[37:51]to do that what happened this is from Allah you wrote it

[37:58]with your own hand why do you say it's from Allah by

[38:00]the way we're going to come back to this verse when we

[38:03]look at some of the Torah clearly this is not from God

[38:05]some aspects cannot be from Allah tala clearly the gospels as well

[38:10]when you just look at the contradictions the conflictions the gospels are

[38:14]supposed to be a narrative of the life of Jesus basically a

[38:19]not like the Quran lessons Parables stories Juris prudence and some biographical

[38:26]moments the gospels meaning the Christian narrative is just the biography of

[38:32]Jesus from the moment he was dispatched not even from his baby

[38:36]time then other gospels bring the time when he was a baby

[38:41]but I thought both of them were true one gospel will tell

[38:44]I'm not going to get into this much because we'll have a

[38:46]class on the gospels just them first a moment inshallah we will

[38:49]discuss the Torah and then another moment we'll discuss the gospels and

[38:52]then we'll discuss more about the intricacies and the J jst depositions

[38:56]about that one one gospel says that he gave a Sermon on

[39:00]the Mount you guys have heard of that one it's famous then

[39:02]there's another one that says the Gospel of Luke he gave a

[39:07]sermon on the plane was it a mount or was it a

[39:11]plane I've asked this to a really obedient um Evangelical Christian they're

[39:15]the best by the way the evangelicals because they will die by

[39:18]the word everything here is literal okay so there's no theoretical interpretation

[39:22]this is the word the truth the way Jesus they are what

[39:28]we should be with the Quran in the sense this is literally

[39:30]the word of Allah alhamdulillah he's like that is not meant to

[39:36]be taken literally I just want to know was it on the

[39:38]mount or was it on the plane he it's whatever it was

[39:42]yeah but both of them are H right was he on both

[39:47]I don't know what to say yeah so clearly someone did something

[39:49]with their Allah says he condemns this why so they could buy

[39:58]something of value but this of value is not even that expensive

[40:03]this is from Allah in order to exchange it for a small

[40:05]price they would fake their own scripture this would happen to the

[40:09]previous followers of the previous religions such that they could sell it

[40:14]for a small price this is common by the way these are

[40:18]called charlatans the term we use is charlatan they they exist by

[40:21]in Islam unfortunately there are many um scholar claimants out there many

[40:27]this is not to cast doubt on the ever a true you

[40:31]know clearly they they they their money is where their mouth is

[40:35]their money is not where their hand is their money is where

[40:39]their mouth is clearly though that's a scholar then there are charlatans

[40:42]I'll give you an example there are some many some there's a

[40:46]lot fake Imam M claimants these guys they'll come out there they'll

[40:50]say this is what the Quran says there's a there's another hidden

[40:53]Sur you literally wrote that I could clearly see the Arabic grammal

[41:00]mistakes why' you do that it turns out to be in his

[41:04]religion you have to pay a fee of $5,000 a month forget

[41:09]you and your Dean what is this that's not Dean anyways so

[41:11]so that they can buy with it something if you're you're that's

[41:18]little in the value of Allah tala why would you even bother

[41:21]Additionally the Quran says there was a loss of our original scripture

[41:25]that ends the deal with us today clearly the full original scripture

[41:30]is not with us so as much as you try to piece

[41:34]it in together there are so many attempts researchers academic uh thesis

[41:39]phds Masters I've seen a lot of them that try to piece

[41:43]what could have been the original Jesus experience not this guy's opinion

[41:49]that guy's view what is exactly what happened the Quran has blatantly

[41:54]clearly said it's lost don't worry you'll find maybe maybe maybe maybe

[41:57]if you work your socks off 75% but the Quran talks about

[42:03]moments in the life of the previous prophets it even talks about

[42:07]the Quran saying things [Music] like they you can even find the

[42:18]prophet's name in the in in the toat where is that I'm

[42:25]looking into I don't see it so then what does that mean

[42:27]happened so the truth has been lost chapter 5 verse 13 says

[42:36]they distorted words from their proper usages and have forgotten a portion

[42:45]of that of which they were reminded this suggests not only Distortion

[42:51]they see it they distort it but also neglect and the loss

[42:58]of parts of the original Revelation that's terrible you forgot it CU

[43:04]why don't you write it down we did write it down what

[43:06]happened we changed it you had one job the prophet whoever this

[43:12]Prophet was for you it's not just Jesus it's the sub prophets

[43:17]that come Samuel shamuel all these other individuals who lead up after

[43:23]M these NB what was their role to help you remember why

[43:27]did you mess it up well alhamdulillah Allah safeguarded the final message

[43:33]he says I have brought this remebrance down and we are its

[43:39]preservers and its Guardians and we will make sure it will never

[43:41]be tampered the Quran will never change in that regard so that's

[43:47]the reality now what exactly is the Bible you hear Bible often

[43:53]you're going to hear it often in this class too inshallah what

[43:56]is the B the Bible today today as it stands and I

[44:02]would like to make this clear this will be a sort of

[44:08]non-confessional address to this subject meaning I'm not going to incorporate the

[44:12]belief of the Christian I will just look at it objectively we

[44:17]will all look into this academically essentially when teachers teach in modern

[44:24]Academia they have to remove the element of this is my belief

[44:27]if there is a contradiction I have to admit that's that contradicts

[44:33]that but it contradicts it but we're told by some thinker interpret

[44:35]it as metaphor if there is none of that I don't know

[44:40]what to do in this case we're have to look at it

[44:42]objectively so today today that's why words matter by the way when

[44:49]I say the Bible if you ask a Christian what will they

[44:51]tell you the Bible is they'll say the Bible is two remember

[44:57]this the the Old Testament and the New Testament why do they

[45:04]call the Bible including the Old Testament why the Old Testament is

[45:09]what Old Testament so it's the older it's the older Divine teachings

[45:20]what is that the Torah the what's the Torah though why isn't

[45:26]it just the Torah and then the Bible because the Christian believes

[45:31]the Torah is the Bible it's the Old Testament but essentially this

[45:35]discussion old new this is a Christian terminology a Christian language if

[45:41]you say Old Testament to a Jew he'll be very insulted to

[45:46]you a practicing Jew be like what do you mean Old Testament

[45:48]because that means there's a what for a Jew a new testament

[45:52]do they believe in the New Testament New Testament is Islam Islam

[45:58]however however if we keep in mind the idea that it was

[46:05]all Islam to begin with there is no old there is no

[46:08]new there is just Islam Adam was the first on Earth Muslim

[46:14]that's it why because Society was not ripe enough for the Quran

[46:20]yet imagine during the time if Quran is the final greatest message

[46:22]why doesn't it in the time ofan the Quran come to end

[46:27]it right there yeah because opens the Quran and he sees who's

[46:31]AB who's this guy who's this guy or the Roman Empire has

[46:39]been conquered it conquered and it was revealed during the time of

[46:43]for example when ancient Babylon and room wasn't even a thing so

[46:46]it needs to ripen the human timeline and The Human Experience so

[46:52]old New Testament is a Christian language so now you know if

[46:56]you mean a practicing Jew if you have a Jewish friend whatever

[47:01]I would discourage you from having any extremist like Zionist and to

[47:05]separate that as well not all zionists uh sorry not all Jews

[47:08]are zionists keep that in mind um and today there's this weird

[47:15]um amalgamation of Christian zionists as well but we're separating that I

[47:19]only mention this and I'm not interested in getting political but because

[47:24]it does relate to uh our modern day lives and to making

[47:26]it clear that you might hear a lot that if you are

[47:30]against a particular policy then you're anti-semitic that's not the case because

[47:33]there are also Jews who have a different opinion politically speaking does

[47:38]that make them anti- their own religion that they worship God through

[47:41]no so this is the only reason I mentioned that by the

[47:43]way if you sit with a scholar of Judaism or if you

[47:47]now you you know this don't say the language Old Testament New

[47:50]Testament it's like Baba That's The Testament end of story right so

[47:56]these are Christian terminologies what is the the Bible though to a

[48:00]Christian you just now see it's something right to a Jew what

[48:07]is it there's this concept it's called I don't want to confuse

[48:11]or become over complicated but it's called the tan the tan the

[48:18]tan according to the old older scripture let's call it that or

[48:24]the Jewish Bible we can call it the Jewish Bible for terminology

[48:27]olog accuracy purposes the Torah is comprised the tanak is comprised of

[48:34]the Torah It's actually an acronym for Torah for this is a

[48:45]Hebrew word by the way which means the prophets does that remind

[48:48]you of anything in Arabic by the way you will notice because

[48:56]Arabic and Hebrew are what languages that there is a lot of

[49:01]lexical similarities not just like grammal lexical enunciations as well they're very

[49:09]similar Salam shalam whatever so Torah means the writings does that also

[49:18]remind you of something in Arabic makab whatever the writings the Jewish

[49:29]Bible is this the tanak the Torah which means what we'll talk

[49:36]about that I'll put an asist on that we'll come back to

[49:40]that the Torah the prophets the writings these together equate to about

[49:47]24 books the Torah is five books just five Genesis these are

[49:56]very famous by the way and the Torah is the most famous

[50:01]part of the T it's the most famous part not many are

[50:03]familiar with necessarily theim or the the writings but this is the

[50:12]most famous the the first is Genesis then Exodus lus numbers and

[50:21]the Book of Deuteronomy these are all books so technically what I

[50:25]should have said is the Book of Genesis the book of Exodus

[50:28]The Book of Leviticus the book of numbers and the Book of

[50:32]Deuteronomy these books these are five they together comprise the Torah then

[50:39]there's a separate series of books together comprise the lives and stories

[50:45]of many of the prophets like Joshua for example y this is

[50:52]called theim portion of the Bible then there's the Kim version which

[50:59]is what that the writings the Psalms of David um the other

[51:06]Scrolls of that are out there um the messages of all the

[51:08]other prophets and their letters Daniel things like that so all of

[51:12]these Danielle which is a prophet in Islam too by the way

[51:14]and you notice so many prophets are with us in Islam as

[51:18]well there are some prophets in the by the way Jewish Bible

[51:22]who are prophets for us but not prophets for them like l

[51:27]is a he's a prophet in the Jewish Bible he's just a

[51:33]wise man he's not infallible for example so this is what makes

[51:39]the Torah the Jewish Bible the Torah is one section there's a

[51:41]there are three sections in total the to the old we call

[51:48]it the Jewish Bible is 24 books in total it's 24 books

[51:52]what about the Christian Bible no Jew by the way disagree agrees

[51:57]on the Jewish Bible in any denomination for the most part to

[52:05]my knowledge all Jews agree it's 24 Books five Torah the other

[52:09]individ other books collectively 24 when it comes to Christianity it's almost

[52:16]any man's land it's it's a lot of differences if you're Catholic

[52:24]the Old Testament or or the Jewish Bible there are more books

[52:32]than what the Jews themselves claim so a Christian denomination comes and

[52:37]says uh no actually Jews your books in total are not 24

[52:42]if you're Catholic it's actually 46 where did you get the extra

[52:47]books from the Jew might say like we believe these are actual

[52:50]Jewish scripture that you guys should have included let's just say so

[52:55]if you're Catholic it's 46 Jewish scripture plus what 27 of the

[53:04]Christian Bible the first four gospels then the book of Acts then

[53:10]the Book of Revelations and a few other resources here and there

[53:17]27 plus 46 27 Christian literature 46 Jewish literature according to the

[53:27]Catholic in total the Bible to the Catholics is 73 books this

[53:32]is good information to keep in mind when you sit with someone

[53:39]they say you should follow the Bible all 76 books are saying

[53:41]to me like that's the Bible what about the Protestants Protestant the

[53:48]Protestants there's 39 in the Old Testament yeah Protestant has 39 yeah

[53:53]I think you said 24 that uh Catholics take 24 of the

[53:59]Jewish which is the first and they add more equal to 46

[54:02]plus the 27 that they have of the chrisan Bible they take

[54:06]39 and add on to it and then it becomes 46 for

[54:10]the the Catholics the Protestants have 39 of the Jewish Bible so

[54:14]they have the 24 of the Jewish scripture they have that Jews

[54:17]have 24 I'm pretty sure the 39 for the Old Testament is

[54:24]the Jewish Bible with you according to Catholics 46 is for the

[54:29]Catholics the Catholics in total for the whole the Catholics with you

[54:35]but the Catholics in total they conclude what that the whole old

[54:38]scripture is what in total I'm just going based out based off

[54:43]of the Christian thinking of each denomination to Catholicism the Jewish Bible

[54:48]is what in total 46 46 to the Protestant is what 30

[54:50]39 39 that's what we're saying they add 27 of the what

[54:55]of the what new test of the of their new testament the

[54:58]Christian Bible yeah yeah so 27 + 39 for the Protestant 66

[55:05]Catholics 46 plus 27 46 of the Jewish Bible according to the

[55:09]C is 7 73 so now if you're a Protestant what's the

[55:16]difference between the Protestant 66 Bibles versus the Catholic 73 that's like

[55:23]seven right yeah seven the Protestant misses seven books that the Catholic

[55:29]has so when a Christian may ask you follow the Bible which

[55:33]one now it's not just a matter of which one it's not

[55:36]just a matter of which one it's which version because now do

[55:39]you recognize that there are different versions of the Bible the most

[55:44]popular is what brother Alis since you jumped in earlier what's the

[55:47]most popular version of the Bible today today yeah today today I

[55:50]don't know I haven't checked in 20 years but 20 years ago

[55:54]it was 20 years you checked mallah it's the King James version

[55:56]yeah it's still it's the most popular widely used King James version

[56:01]what does a version of the Bible mean means the verbs the

[56:06]verbs the the terminology that's used um the language that's used and

[56:11]the vocabulary that's used all of this is like what we would

[56:14]say in Arabic these are all different versions um put that to

[56:20]the side that's a whole different subject of itself the Orthodox there's

[56:24]not just Catholic there's not just Protestant an orthodox as well the

[56:29]Orthodox Christian like the Coptic the Greek the Russian Orthodox Christian they

[56:34]have over 50 of the original Jewish Bible they claim that there's

[56:39]over 50 not your 24 not your 46 not your 39 is

[56:44]50 plus the 27 of the Christian New Testament they still keep

[56:47]it at 27 that's according depending on which Orthodox Christian denomination you

[56:53]come from between 75 and 81 there was an Ethiopian by the

[56:59]way Christianity it's a very big I was in Ethiopia myself huge

[57:04]Christian devotion and love they believe that the um that the Arc

[57:07]of the Covenant the taboot of Musa is actually in Ethiopia it's

[57:13]in this church whatever um it's eventually the total books they have

[57:16]is is 81 that's a lot brothers and sisters I'd like to

[57:19]take you to um one segment and then this will be the

[57:24]wrap up inshallah and we open the floor for any questions Allah

[57:26]I bring this all why I mention the differences I mentioned the

[57:31]different books the amount of numbers why because Allah does say in

[57:34]the Quran he does say this and in multiple ways and in

[57:37]different times and Allah revealed the taat and the in which did

[57:48]you reveal Ya Allah the 66 the 73 the 24 the 75

[57:53]to 81 the over 8 what what was it that you revealed

[57:55]exactly God was very clear brothers and sisters I'd like your undivided

[58:02]attention here he said what Allah revealed the toat and in did

[58:06]he say he revealed the five books of the whatever did he

[58:11]say he revealed for example let's say the um the other material

[58:14]and the scripture acts Revelation what did he say he said the

[58:18]tat the tah T in Hebrew means teachings means the law means

[58:28]the the rule means the instructions when Allah says the part of

[58:35]theat Allah says I revealed down was I revealed laws rules Revelation

[58:39]instructions look how accurate Allah is look how accurate the Quran is

[58:43]it didn't say and I revealed the entire Jewish Bible it would

[58:49]make sense Jewish Bible has some truth to it right but it

[58:51]also has a lot of the differences it also has versions Allah

[58:55]said look I just revealed the Revelation I revealed theam to the

[59:00]heart of the Prophet that you were meant to follow that's all

[59:04]I revealed cuz the word tah literally means instruction rules teachings so

[59:10]Allah is very accurate here he didn't say I revealed the pentat

[59:15]the five books Genesis Leviticus Exodus what he didn't say that I

[59:18]see see in these five books whatever is law that hasn't been

[59:20]tampered with today that's what I revealed M speaking about rulings and

[59:24]Juris Prudence that's what I revealed if Allah said the Quran would

[59:34]not be accurate because first of all that'll be very bad those

[59:39]are for example what's the Christian is the new one or the

[59:45]Islam one he didn't say that but that's our language today did

[59:49]he say that no I just said I brought down the Torah

[59:55]that's it what does the Torah mean laws then then he says

[59:58]in means what we mentioned all of these other books what exactly

[60:04]is Allah referring to when he says inil first of all injil

[60:06]and we'll wrap wrap up with this inshallah comes from the Greek

[60:10]Brothers and Sisters inil Arabic it actually takes it from the Greek

[60:15]inil means in the Greek good news that's it Glad Tidings one

[60:24]might even use that term just good news so even in the

[60:29]word in Allah was accurate why because he's saying I just brought

[60:34]down news that that's good with the Torah I brought down laws

[60:39]rules if he had ever Allah in the Quran said I brought

[60:44]down books this set of books these certain no I brought down

[60:47]a law I brought down news what does that mean in one

[60:52]word I just brought down Revelation Allah the Quran when it said

[60:55]this and Ed these ter terms if it used any other way

[60:58]to describe the previous scripture the Quran would have been wrong you

[61:01]that's not accurate because different versions because different that not all books

[61:06]are the same he just said look I'll keep it safe I'll

[61:07]keep it easy I'll keep it simple I brought down good news

[61:11]and I brought down words you can say that the laws and

[61:13]the words and the teachings are with the Jews and you can

[61:17]say I brought down good news with Jesus given all of this

[61:20]inshallah in the upcoming course we will go through some of these

[61:26]works we we will look at many of the claims and the

[61:27]arguments that the Torah was written by Moses and why this was

[61:33]not true we will look at each gospel as well the gospel

[61:35]of Mark Matthew Luke and John each of them are claimed to

[61:42]be divinely inspired we will look at our observations regarding maybe some

[61:47]of the conflictions and contradictions potentially and we will see where we

[61:52]draw in regards to what we can agree can be salvageable According

[61:56]to Islamic thought and perspective are there any uh last questions and

[62:01]thoughts in this regard okay let me address some of the kind

[62:05]comments that have been uh reached out by YouTube uh if you

[62:10]guys with your permission inshal but I guess in that regard we

[62:13]could keep keep it on because of the YouTube right so in

[62:18]let me get to that now um mallah a lot one wrot

[62:23]this class is offered in person too I didn't know yes so

[62:26]yeah please feel free to attend so yeah the Bible someone asked

[62:29]reference in the Quran is not the Bible we have today absolutely

[62:34]true it's important to study other religions this is in regards to

[62:37]our one of our first earlier questions some are asking if the

[62:47]lectures are recorded obviously inah yes they are I hope right they

[62:52]are I mean I could see myself umam will we learn about

[62:55]the rebuttal to the things we learn regarding Christianity inshallah we will

[63:01]dedicate a class on our um claims and and opinions refuting some

[63:04]of the um major uh beliefs that are there regarding these teachings

[63:11]yes thank you for kicking this off thank you what can we

[63:16]say this is a good question what can we say to the

[63:21]Jehovah Witnesses do you guys know who those are who say their

[63:23]Bible is only translated and not revised and is not a version

[63:25]like the a JV version King James version someone is asking I

[63:32]look forward to reading your Master's thesis thank you so much but

[63:35]maybe at the end of the class or at the classes Jehovah

[63:37]Witnesses is one of the later groups that have emerged as a

[63:44]a different interpretation offering to the Bible um they claim that the

[63:48]truth has now updated itself and there's a lot to say about

[63:51]them um the um Church of Jesus Christ for latterday Saints as

[63:57]well is also a very Rogue and I use that not as

[63:58]an insult but as an just as numbers Wise It's not a

[64:05]majority followed opinion and many Christians will call them kuf a Christian

[64:09]will be like you're not a real Christian why because they have

[64:13]a dramatically different narrative according to the history of Jesus theology many

[64:18]of them believe the event of Jesus happened in America actually that

[64:22]Jesus's crucifixion everything like that happened in the United States I believe

[64:25]in Utah hence that's where they Hub yeah many have prophets as

[64:31]well still alive today the last prophet was called Prophet Thomas and

[64:34]he had passed away today they have a new Prophet according to

[64:39]the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Latter Day Saints so they

[64:42]believe in later on there were saints that have emerged they call

[64:45]them prophets basically for those reasons many Christians see them as like

[64:48]a heretical group what concerns us is scripture that intertwines with the

[64:53]Quran citation alhamdulillah m

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