Book Signing with Dr. John Andrew Morrow - Muslim Group 2015

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[0:00]so the next speaker is dr.

[0:05]John Andrew morrow was also known as share ilias islam incidentally he

[0:10]referred to to islam at the age of 16 so he's a

[0:16]senior scholar of Islam and full professor and the director of the

[0:18]Covenant of the Prophet foundation besides being a professor he's an author

[0:22]and research scholar he has authored a large number of books and

[0:25]articles on a wide variety of topics including Prophet Muhammad Malcolm X

[0:29]Shiism to name a few he's best known for his critically acclaimed

[0:33]study on the covenants of Prophet Muhammad with the questions of the

[0:37]world the covenants of Prophet have generated over 300 reviews articles and

[0:41]interviews along with speaking engagements around the world the book has received

[0:45]the blessings of Pope Francis the patriarch Theophilus the third the patriarch

[0:49]bartholomew as well as the holy council of fathers from Mount Sinai

[0:53]he has also received the blessings of shaykh habib ali al jeffrey

[0:56]the grand mufti of the muslim world and the university of al-azhar

[0:59]he's also received the blessings of prominent Shia scholars from around the

[1:03]world the covenants of Prophet Muhammad that the Christians of the world

[1:07]has inspired the covenants initiative that urges Muslims to abide by the

[1:11]treaties concluded between the messenger of allah and the christian communities of

[1:15]his period the carbon initiative has been signed by hundreds of leading

[1:19]scholars academics and activists from the Sunni and Shia community upon the

[1:24]request of Christian leaders the covenants initiative has spawned the genocide initiative

[1:29]which seeks to have the crimes committed by Isis and other tech

[1:34]fury terrorists characterized as acts of religious ethnic and cultural genocide the

[1:38]genocide initiative has inspired a series of resolutions in the US Congress

[1:42]resolutions I recognize that genocide that Isis is committing against Christians Yazidis

[1:49]Kurds Sunnis and Shias in November dr.

[1:52]morrow issued a statement against Isis the statement reached over 1 million

[1:58]Muslims partly inspired by his actions over 70,000 Muslim clerics in India

[2:03]issued a fatwa stating Isis is a nun Islamic and that the

[2:05]theories are to be deprived of Muslim burials starting in February dr.

[2:10]dr.

[2:10]morrow will be teaching a course on the caverns it from taco

[2:17]academy so takuma media is launching a pilot program which will which

[2:23]is which is going to be called taco academy and the purpose

[2:26]at teco academy is to create awareness regarding islamic issues this will

[2:30]be an online course for 10 weeks and the idea for this

[2:32]course will allow students to navigate the political process from a grassroots

[2:35]effort this is a pilot program as mentioned and it seeks its

[2:38]success will be determined by the engagement from our community there are

[2:42]sign up sign-in sheets at this at the front to the left

[2:46]of me at the table please see me for additional details I

[2:48]also forgot to mention from an Islamic literacy standpoint if you're interested

[2:52]in that their sign-in sheets on the right here so with that

[2:56]I want to invite dr.

[2:58]morrow to the podium with you Lara silhouette I would be Rahim

[3:12]inertia Tony rajim bismillahi rahmani rahim alhamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen sarah wat

[3:23]was salam ala nabina habibi nuh aziz inna double Kozma muhammad wallahi

[3:30]italia bhi nahi lene al masoomeen sala wat I would like to

[3:39]relate to you the story of the covenants of the Prophet Muhammad

[3:43]peace and blessings be upon him the story begins in 1990 in

[3:51]1990 I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto in Canada

[3:57]I am taking a course on philosophy of religion and the professor

[4:01]you know time comes to select a topic for the major essay

[4:08]in this class and i propose to write an essay about jihad

[4:11]in islam the professor accepts and I diligently get to work and

[4:16]I conduct all kinds of research and so on drunk from quranic

[4:21]verses and a hadith and so on in books of history in

[4:23]this essay I quoted what is known as the Ashton on a

[4:29]the Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the monks of Mount Sinai

[4:32]now this is one of the first documents that I was exposed

[4:38]to when I was a young man on a spiritual quest I

[4:43]started to study all kinds of different religions and Islam when I

[4:47]was 13 years of age and I eventually embraced Islam when I

[4:53]was 16 years of age and so was during those years that

[4:55]I came across this document the document that is truly remarkable it

[4:59]was a covenant that the Prophet made with the monks from st.

[5:07]catherine's monastery in the Sinai in in Egypt and he granted them

[5:11]freedom of belief freedom of religion he commanded the Muslims to protect

[5:18]their monasteries and to protect their churches and if they they started

[5:23]to fall apart to help to rebuild them in order to keep

[5:31]these people faithful and loyal allies to the Muslims so it was

[5:35]a truly remarkable document in terms of its care and its compassion

[5:38]and its justice so I quote this document in this essay I

[5:45]submit the essay to the professor and eventually I get it back

[5:48]and I believe I got twenty-nine percent on it it was like

[5:53]twenty nine percent or like thirty two percent it was like a

[5:55]30-page essay it was very well researched or so I thought but

[6:00]I was a humble young man and I've always respected by teachers

[6:05]that I've always honored elders and so it hurt but I accepted

[6:08]it and I came to the conclusion that perhaps my paper did

[6:14]deserve an F so I complete my undergraduate studies my honors be

[6:19]a my MA my PhD I continue my religious studies you know

[6:27]for decades and we're about in 2009 and so I you know

[6:30]I've been an assistant professor and associate professor I'm now a full

[6:35]professor and a publisher is interested in publishing an anthology of my

[6:38]scholarly articles so I start going through old essays that I wrote

[6:43]and things that i published for this anthology I come across my

[6:47]essay the first essay I ever wrote at the university level on

[6:50]jihad in Islam and I look at it and I say you

[6:55]know in retrospect this doesn't look so bad this is pretty good

[6:58]so what do i do I take this essay and I submit

[7:03]it for peer-reviewed publication and guess what it's revered it's reviewed by

[7:08]peers it's reviewed by scholars is reviewed by academics and professors and

[7:13]it comes back favorable absolutely will publish this it was at that

[7:18]point that I realized that hmm it seems that that professor was

[7:22]prejudiced against Muslims so this was perhaps my real taste of Islamophobia

[7:27]and so after the original version of my first University essay was

[7:32]published I said you know what and this was written before we

[7:38]had this problem of terrorism and so on I mean for God's

[7:40]sake this is 1990 alright this is not after September 11th or

[7:45]anything I said you know I really should expand upon this essay

[7:49]and I was no longer satisfied with having an english translation of

[7:56]a primary document i wanted the original arabic document so i start

[8:00]this quest to locate the document the orig the original ahead neba

[8:05]we the original Ashton ami and Arabic and so I start doing

[8:08]research and research and research and I come across a document that

[8:14]was purported to be the Sinai covenant but then I read it

[8:17]and I soon realize that this is a completely different covenant the

[8:21]Covenant in question was published in 1630 in Paris by a merit

[8:28]by a Maronite priest by the name of Gabrielle see Anita and

[8:33]it was published in 1630 it was republished it was a best-seller

[8:38]for for for centuries in Europe this covenant of the Prophet so

[8:46]I realized that this is not the document that I'm looking for

[8:49]that document had actually been brought back by a priest by the

[8:52]name of Pacific de pubmed pacific de pave or Father's calendar now

[8:59]he had been traveling throughout the Ottoman world in the Safavid Empire

[9:04]and during the course of his travels he discovered a letter of

[9:08]the Prophet apparently it was discovered in a monastery in the Levant

[9:13]in the area of Palestine Lebanon Syria according to some scholars he

[9:19]found it at the monastery of Mount Carmel and so he brought

[9:23]it back it was a letter of protection that the Prophet had

[9:25]given the Christians of that area he brought it back to Europe

[9:31]he presented it to the King of France who was famous for

[9:33]collecting ancient manuscripts from the Middle East he gave it to this

[9:38]priest Gabriela see Anita who published it in the original Arabic along

[9:44]with a latin translation so I continue trying to find the original

[9:49]of this document and I come across another one allegedly the Sinai

[9:53]covenant but I soon realized that no in fact this is a

[9:59]document that was found in the cathedral of new geneva in isfahan

[10:01]in the early 20th century by a scholar was conducting research there

[10:06]and so this was a copy of a covenant of the profit

[10:11]that was certified and authenticated by shah abbas on the authority of

[10:17]imam ja'far asada khali salam and so on and so this was

[10:19]another document and so i continued my quest and i find yet

[10:25]another document a covenant of protection that was given to the assyrian

[10:29]christians finally I find a book in which there is a picture

[10:35]of this HD nami and so I contact the publisher and I

[10:37]say would it be possible for you to send me a high

[10:42]resolution copy of this document and she says well I can't but

[10:45]perhaps father Justin can help you at that point I finger I

[10:51]figure that father Justin probably just a parish priests you know an

[10:56]Irish Catholic or something from Boston who perhaps had traveled to st.

[11:01]catherine's monastery and took a picture so I email father I email

[11:04]father Justin and I say is there any way I can get

[11:09]a copy of this document and he said sure just let me

[11:13]go downstairs and it was at that point that I realized that

[11:16]I was corresponding with father Justin of Sinai from the Holy Council

[11:20]of fathers from st.

[11:24]catherine's monastery in Egypt he went downstairs to the lobby of the

[11:27]monastery took a picture of the document and sent it to me

[11:30]as an attachment ma sha Allah Allah works in wonderful ways and

[11:38]so finally I had a copy of this document and I asked

[11:40]him father Justin are there other covenants of the Prophet out there

[11:47]and he says yes they have a copy at Mount Athos on

[11:49]the sacred mountain in the monastery of simona Petra in Greece he

[11:53]said but good luck getting access to that document we are Greek

[11:59]Orthodox and we can't even get access to their archives so you

[12:03]know good luck getting access so at that time the book was

[12:07]published my critical study and everything the history of this document questions

[12:11]of authenticity commentary studying them according to the rules of hadith studies

[12:17]and I'm invited to Georgetown University in Washington to give a lecture

[12:22]on the covenants of the Prophet during the course of that lecture

[12:25]I made a joke I poked fun at the monastery of Mount

[12:30]Athos I said that compared to the monastery of seminole Petra at

[12:39]Harvard University is like an open admissions Community College by the time

[12:46]I returned home from that speaking tour there was an email in

[12:50]my inbox from a person I didn't recognize by the name of

[12:56]monk cosmos and he says I hear you're looking for something and

[13:00]he says we have not only one but two copies of the

[13:07]Covenant of the Prophet now these are covenants that were never revealed

[13:10]to the world before that they have housed in this monastery for

[13:14]centuries and centuries and centuries and Masha Allah he was kind enough

[13:19]to forward me to high resolution copies of these covenants and so

[13:24]the quest continues you know there are some people who suggested in

[13:35]the 1600 that Gabriela see Anita had his time up dr.

[13:39]Bengali how much time do I have a couple minutes ok so

[13:45]that's not the end of the story because the story continues after

[13:49]the publication of the book there are some people who suggested that

[13:54]this Capuchin priest Pacific de prevent others Gallagher had forged this covenant

[14:01]he made it up and so I set out to find the

[14:06]original copy that he brought back from the monastery of Mount Carmel

[14:10]and so I said where I tried to figure out where did

[14:15]it end up and I said well maybe it ended up in

[14:20]the King's library and then I said oh French Revolution they burned

[14:23]all the libraries and they did indeed however a large portion of

[14:28]his collection survived then it is now in the National Library of

[14:32]France in Paris and so I'm going through an ancient manuscript filled

[14:40]with ancient Christian documents i look at the end X because it's

[14:43]been indexed by the librarians there's no sign of anything I flip

[14:46]through it flip through it flip through it and what did I

[14:50]find at the end of this manuscript a copy of the Covenant

[14:53]of the pratha Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the world the

[14:56]original copy that had been brought back by father scavenger that was

[15:03]already several centuries old so I confirmed that he did indeed bring

[15:09]back a covenant from the Middle East so after I give the

[15:12]lecture at Georgetown I'm invited all over the place I'm invited to

[15:18]to Europe I speak in France and in Belgium and the Netherlands

[15:21]and the United Kingdom and other countries I meet a Syrian priest

[15:27]by the name of Reverend Naveen Nasser and I give this presentation

[15:32]on the covenants and he says you know what I saw a

[15:35]covenant of the Prophet say mashallah where where he says st.

[15:41]George and who made in Syria in the monastery they have one

[15:45]on the wall and so I contact the monastery and the abbot

[15:53]at the time was father Dennis kenos and I asked him about

[15:56]this covenant and he sent me a copy of the Covenant and

[16:01]it's virtually identical to the one that the priest had brought back

[16:06]to France in the 1600s and this is a monastery that has

[16:09]been under siege besieged by these tech fury terrorists can you believe

[16:16]that surrounded by people who profess to be Muslims who are hell-bent

[16:21]on destroying this monastery and killing all of the the priests and

[16:25]all of the monks and yet their most cherished possession it's priceless

[16:30]to them is on their wall and it's a letter from the

[16:37]Prophet Muhammad guaranteeing them protection for their lives and their property and

[16:43]the religion in their faith so I will wrap up my little

[16:45]presentation on that note Salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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