Know the final Messenger of Peace - Yusuf Estes

so I come mashallah mashallah mashallah how many of you were here last night and you came back anyway mashallah okay in al hamdulillah al hamdulillah rabbi l-'alameen who Allah did gelada muslimeen was salat wa salam wa Rasul al Karim while I Ally you was happy eyes my eyes shed with a la la la hora de la sharika lah a shadow muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh sal allahu wa sallam it's a grand opportunity hamdulillah and a privilege and an honor for me to be here with you on this occasion to speak about our beloved Rasulullah lillah wa sallam in these days when we find so many people confused mislead misguided about exactly who Muhammad is it's only appropriate than on occasions such as these that we the Muslims stand up and explain in simple concise terms exactly who is muhammad salallahu alaihe someone allah subhanho wa taala blessed me to be guided into Islam by a person named Muhammad of the rock man from Egypt just the name itself caught my attention when I met this man my friend from Egypt his name is Muhammad that's the Muslims ooh and you know what they do but the more I began to learn about the person that I knew named Muhammad and the more he spoke about the one he was named for Russell Mustafa Muhammad the more I began to really believe that such a person lived breathed and preached a message a beautiful message of the unity of God and the salvation of mankind I never thought that I would be a Muslim in fact I was trying to convert a Muslim to become a Christian that was my idea after I entered into Islam the hamdulillah there was something that was told one of the Muslim brothers told me that if you don't love Muhammad more than anybody else you can't be a Muslim I said what he said you have to love Muhammad Salla lillah wa sallam more than anybody even your mother even your father even yourself I said really I said yes he said do you love him more than anybody else I said I really I don't I can't say that because I don't know much about him so right then and there I decided I need to learn about Muhammad sallallahu wasallam because in my former Christian religion I loved Jesus they said am very much but I didn't really know anything about him not really oh I you know I heard people say things I know quotes that people attached to him but to really to really know with testable evidence there really isn't anything for Jesus until you come to this book the Quran is the only the last and the only revelation of a law that still exists on the planet today in the original form original language and no changes we know that we talked about that before but for us as Muslims it's a lot more than just a book it represents Allah speech and it represents what Muhammad's life Salaam brought because he's the one who said it so I began to read but all I could find was three books one written by somebody not Muslim a nice book but it's written by somebody's not even a Muslim another book that was written by somebody who had a hard time I think translating to English and the third one basically I think written by somebody that hates Islam that was almost 20 years ago now today I visited the bazaar and I went through the book shops that are here I found so many excellent books about our prophet sallallaahu Salaam I'm very happy to tell you that there are excellent works right here that you can take home with you and I hope you do but at that time we didn't have it so I had to go to some of the scholars the same problem comes again about language twenty years ago in the United States we really didn't have a lot of scholars who could speak good English or understood how to explain to us today one of our best scholars on our new TV website for guide us TV is located in Abu Dhabi his English is better than mine so it was a lot harder then than it is now but it's still the same message Prophet Muhammad peace and blessing be upon him the more you know about him the more you realize how you want to be like him kind gentle quiet contemplative sincere honest truthful keeps the trust brings the families together so many wonderful things that we know about him as a human being so a few years ago and you remember the incident in one country some people published cartoons very stupid cartoons trying to insult our prophet sallallaahu salam we went there my wife and I my daughters and about a hundred other people connected with the Islam channel in the UK we put on an 8 hour program starting in the morning going through the day we brought speakers like dr. Jamal better way the sister Yvonne Ridley if you remember great works that she did to help people don't know more about the women in Islam and a number of other speakers and I saw the best effort from the Muslims really it was beautiful effort because no matter what they said the Muslims were gentle kind truthful like the way we're supposed to be and when I was outside in the lobby playing with the children that happens to be one of the things I love to do the photograph errs the people the photo journalists they call him what's taking my picture for hours just kept taking my picture taking my pillow why they taking my picture and I'm playing with the kids like this you know they kept no we answered all their questions afterwards we had question answer when we answered the questions when we were done we fed them we had a very lovely meal for them these are photo journalists journalists reporters you know media people politicians trying to let them understand why we feel so strong about our beloved Nabi Saleh Lyla so the next morning as we were riding in the little bus out to the airport I picked up the newspaper they have an English newspaper there in that country opened it up and whose picture is on the front page and what did I look like out of all that is like this this is a picture they got Muslim radicals come to Denmark to preach hatred and spread Islam sorta said I opened the page a big article also oppression of Islam on women now all of the women at this event the Muslim women half of them only was wearing hijab only half the other Muslim women were not wearing hijab and no Muslim women were wearing the black with the niqab none Allah Tala except for three who my wife and my two daughters the only ones niqab and that's what so whose picture did they put my family and what do you think it says oppressed Arab women what no I'm looking and she said we're from Texas what does it mean boys and girls what does it mean it means for some people no matter what you do no matter what you say no matter how you bring the message like me noon they won't believe but it's their newspaper true or false they paid for the newspaper it's their country true or false and they are the ones who are spending their money true or false is it the obligation of the enemies of Islam to present the truth about Muhammad seller lightly wa salaam huh is it the job of a non-muslim to tell the truth about muhammad sallallahu wasallam no it's our job yes or no so this is what we've dedicated a portion of our peace program for this conference to deal with the subject of the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu salaam who he is was what he said what he did and his overall role as the mercy to mankind in fact the next talk coming up right after my talk will be say it Reggie from Canada and he will be talking about the mercy to the al-amin we wanted you to be aware of the importance of this subject because it's not a topic just to read this is not just a subject to stimulate your intellectual side this is a part and a parcel of our Deen what is the first and foremost thing above all things that any Muslim must do to be a Muslim she had attained yes or no shall attain yes or no I just want to be sure you're awake a shadow on la illaha in the law why a shadow on a mohammed rasoolullah so if we don't have this part of it you can't say this is a full Muslim there are Christians who have the first part but they're still not Muslim because they don't believe and they're not ready to follow mohammed saleh salam their clothes some of them i met them very close but until they're ready to really follow our prophet they're not muslim so this is how critical it is to get this message out to the people this is our job you and me now how many of you English is your first language anybody has first language English second language English third languages English there I'm third language English I actually I speak Texas I have to translate so you can understand me you know I'm trying bar you know I'm trying over purchase wrong manner anyway it came in my mind after that event in Denmark that I had to really make a change around the world fast now what's the faster way than the Internet so we put up a website Mohamed A to Z Mohammed a twosie dot-com we started putting some articles on there and then somebody contacted me and said do you know that there's a website called Prophet of Islam dot-com it's for sale it's not Muslims I said what some people in Arizona the United States they own something called prophet of islam and they want to sell it for money they just want the money they don't care who gets it they're gonna sell it to the highest bidder I said oh no now the name alone at that time at that time with all of the focus in the news about the Prophet of Islam Google Ads and the websites that value the name a domain name would estimate it between one two or three million dollars how can I do that I have trouble paying for the websites I have it $10 a piece every year and I have about 3,000 of them now but I said let me try it I picked up the telephone I listened to them and Arizona I can recognize that accent I said I know doing so you heard Joe got a website out there for sale some websites can you send my list they sent the list I went through the list of course and that callback alright this one this one this one this one and prophet of islam was that well we're talking i don't really i don't know what would anybody want that for they said all you know kid put energy could you know stuff to attack his lamb or something like that it's a hat i waste my time tell you what i do i'll give you 500 bucks cash money they said what I said - man said let me talk to my boss I said you work on Commission don't you said yeah I get money every time we said something I said go talk to your boss otherwise you don't get nothing today within three days I got the price down to one thousand three hundred and fifty two dollars and no cents and they took the money and I got the site hungrily a lot of bail out of me why one thousand three hundred and fifty two dollars because that's all the money I had in the world that's why hamdulillah but that website is number one now in Google if you type in Prophet Islam number one prophet of islam are websites number one and through my other websites come up right after that because i have them linked some of you you don't know what I'm talking about with websites don't worry about it there will be some other speeches come up you'll like them better anyway I'm just telling the ones who know about the internet how important this is that we promote the sites that deal with the Hokulea Allah we ran into another problem though some people are putting up websites talking about Muhammad SAW Selam quoting hadith but they said the wrong way and they give the wrong translation of certain words and they're calling to something crazy telling that you have to hate everybody except Muslims you have to kill Jews and Christians it really it plays right into the hands of those who want to attack Islam even more so again we started talking with some of the groups that work with us for instance Islam online.net some of you know that that's for use of Cardell we also with Islam channel in UK who the TV and peace TV in India all of us working together how can we make this better so then we started making TV shows about the Prophet SAW salaam and dr. Yasir Qadhi and some of the others you see them here today say it Reggie and so many more have done excellent job in English to get the message out what's important for you and I to know is this is not a one-man show this is not just okay they did it I don't have to do any work you who are listening to me today now have a responsibility because you've heard it you don't have the excuse before you walked in the door you had an excuse I didn't know but now you know it's on you and me it's on our head when we go out the door we're not the same person that came in this door and we have to work steadily to get this message of our beloved prophet sala lillah wa salaam up where it belongs because as the brother told me in the beginning if you don't love the prophet salla salaam more than anybody else including yourself you're not there yet you're not there yet and when the media the news and the politicians and the preachers of other religions and preachers of hate are saying what they're saying about our beloved Nabi talking against his family talking against his companions talking against the Islam itself talking against this talking against Allah and you sit and you do nothing so what will this dunya benefit you what will this dunya benefit you if you don't do this for alone as messenger so basically my talk is to stimulate and wake us up and listen closely to what we're going to learn today about our prophet sallallaahu labor so never on this planet walked such a person as muhammad sallallahu wasallam we loved all the prophets very much we put them up very high in fact we put all the prophets way above us no doubt but we never put them in the area of being a God or a son of a god but even of all of the prophets Muhammad SAW salam is the ottoman Handia he's the last and the final of all of the messengers of allah so i just want to share a little something with you a little something before i end the talk last year I was sitting with one of our scholars and he said something that really answered a question I had for 19 years I wondered about this you know the story when the why he came to Rasul Sullivan wa sallam you know the story he's fasting job of Noor in them cave called Hera right and while he's there who came in the cave with him who me remember you don't have a microphone I do who came in the cave Jabril la Citadelle right and what happened what did you build do now What did he say what did he do why he grabbed him he squeezed him why and he said it cut off my honour dakari the professor son said I'm not a reciter he grabbed him again why is grabbing him it's done Akira grabbed him again Erik why the tafseer chef is telling us because gibreel ELISA Lam has been hearing about muhammad sallallaahu was some since the beginning since the beginning he knows somebody coming name who mohammed salameh and because he heard because all prophets when they came they mentioned that muhammad sorry Salam is coming so Jabril is excited that's why he was holding him out of excitement like you see somebody you haven't seen your brother in a long time you're excited oh my god you see your Sheikh he didn't see him a long time you wanna hug him you know so he was very excited and he was hugging Nabi so low light of us alone this how they have made it and I said now it makes sense this makes sense because somebody told me I by the way I never saw prophet mohammed salameh in a dream I never did but I know people who said they did and one person I know them they converted to Islam by the way we give them Shahada and after they made Shahada one day they were talking to us and they said I had a dream last night prophet muhammad saw the light of a solemn was in the dream we said ok said and Yusuf Estes was in the Dream Tour said what I'm not a prophet but this said no you came up to Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and you said it's Mohammed so i Salaam and you grabbed him huh like what this story huh he said you grabbed him and you were hugging him and hugging him I said really I said yeah what's just a dream I said by the way what did Prophet sighs and long do What did he say he said nothing he just smiled and looked at you oh that figures that sounds like it could happen we are told in the Quran to say the salams on our prophet sallallaahu us along we're told in the hadith by the prophets our salaam to make this salaam on him a lot on one day of the week more than any other day what day would that be what no one more time Friday there's no such thing as Friday and a Muslim calendar what day Jumma okay and what's today today's Juma so we should be saying sallallahu alayhi wasallam we should be asking Allah whom oh allah gives the peace and the blessings of muhammad sallallaahu a liver salaam like the peace and blessings for Ibrahim and his family and we should say this again and again and again throughout the day so as much as you can try to remember that that's a very good thing because who is saying this for Muhammad SAW Salam inshallah he will be there on the day of judgement asking Allah on our behalf it was when I started studying the hadith of the Prophet SAW Salam that I really fell in love with him so much then I could understand why some Muslims at his time would rather take an arrow in their own body than to have one hair be pulled out of his head is that true or false but as you read you can see why because he brought a message the message from a law the message that is the salvation the only real salvation for the human being and this above all things and how about the one who brought it Muhammad SAW so from the time he was born to the time he died all of this is categorized carefully indexed and verified I can check it out in any country in the world Muslim country or non Muslim country I can get the information about Muhammad it's important because the more we know the truth about him the more we become convinced of the message he came with and what was the message al hamdulillah al hamdulillah Bilal I mean who Allah the gentleman what's the mean so that's it for the speech I didn't want to do more than just set up the stage really for our speakers who will be talking in depth on each of the topics what I would like to do now is have a chance for the Q&A so I'm going to ask our brother to come back out here wake him up send him back out there he comes ok back to you it's not from Allah here sell our money when I'm in action you know by now the rules of the question answer session that Shay Yusuf Estes would prefer so in this case let's first have the question from the brother's side from there I'll be live in action Salam alaikum please my name is Gabriel okay-kay I'm a Christian and your occupation is well pleased I'm a business person okay I was invited to this peace confession by a friend and I came here because it was called a peace concentration what's hard I found this catalogue at the Kabul plate that said something about Yusuf it was written done raised as a strong Christian educated in Texas USA it became very successful owning music stalls television shows and was the music minister and pressure of the Bible so a one who acts use her as a preacher of the Bible what was there what was the reason of the point of the truth that you found in Islam that led to your conversion as a strong Christian and reshare of the Bible that's a beautiful question because there's lights in my eyes that don't know exactly where you are can you hold up your hand well yes there you are I'm sorry now I see you your name is gabriel in arabic is Jabril that's the angel i was talking about so we we're very happy to have you with us today it's a pleasure to have you with us and it's a pleasure for you to ask such a question in such a nice way I'm privileged to ask you that question I wish I was there I could give you a big hug thank you sir because when I was a person see I wasn't nice like you you're nice I was tough you know because I thought I had to save the world I'm gonna go out and preach a message and you know I'm still a little wacko don't get me wrong but not near as bad as that was what I found and this is important to know what I found was in my Bible first what I found was in my Bible first because I used to travel with a lot of the so-called preachers of Christianity and some of the ones that I traveled with they don't represent real Christianity by the way but I traveled with them and I learned that I couldn't trust them especially when they would pick up the Bible and say the Bible says the Bible says and afterwards I would say it didn't say that they say who cares as long as the people think so and so it bothered me so much that I started trying to really read and understand many different translations of the Bible but they didn't match so I said obviously you know translation is not the real thing I need to learn Cohn a Greek I knew that the Latin I had already studied Latin and I knew that the Vulgate was only a translation of : a Greek anyway so when I went to the cone a Greek it was hard that was really hard because those characters they're confusing you know I don't know if you know Greek but it's weird Greek to me anyway then I come to know that oh by the way actually Jesus language was a form of Hebrew called Aramaic a form of Semitic language called Aramaic and I had no clue what that was so I tried to learn the Hebrew now all along the way I'm taking okay in early near Bible I don't know if you know what that is that's when you have the word in English and under it'll have the word in Conant Greek and you can look it up now people like Ahmed Deedat Rahim along in dr. zakir naik they have these giant computer brains okay I don't have that giant computer brains they can process all this stuff in their head and I traveled with Zakhar many times and I have to tell you he can really do that any time but this is not my subject when I was studying it I came to realize that there was a book called Strong's Concordance of the Bible my father had a copy so I would sit there it's big it's a very big book and I would go through and look for these words and then it will tell you in Koine Greek what's the root what it comes from and what it's related to and where it's in the Bible and then all of a sudden I started discovering something really big there's a whole lot of interpolation because if you look over here those same exact word means one thing but over here it means something else and then statements that people say about the Bible are not true if I quote to you from what we have in the Quran I can quote it to you in the Arabic language but how many people do you know that can quote the Bible in the original Aramaic of the New Testament or ancient Hebrew of the Old Testament not very many people right but I want you to look but you're standing right there Gabriel look around this room right here now I I don't know most of these people some of them know me from TV or something like that but they don't really know me but if I open this book on any page and I start quoting out of this thing believe it or not they will know if I'm making mistakes there'll be somebody in this room it couldn't tell you know it's a mistake you said it wrong but I'm just going to go to the first page there we go this is the first page hold it so the cameras can get a shot hi guys all right what's the first letter first letter and the first page anybody know tell us ba everybody knows it's Bob so what's the word bismillah this is arabic and keeping keep in mind this is the english program we're doing i'm speaking in some form of english right now right yeah okay this is me llahi r-rahmani r-rahim' next words al Rahman al Rahim yet the na'budu wa iyyaka nastaa'een sirata al-ladhina an AMTA alayhim I mean you don't have to say I mean except in the slot but you know anyway now you could say Gabriel oh well I mean you know that could be a rehearsal thing that people do every day and guess what you'd be right we do say that we'd say it every day five times a day we pray but there are a total of seventeen times we say it so you could say I they just know that but by the way how about if I mispronounced something would they catch it hi Roma doobie alayhim wala Doreen whoops whoo yeah I laid him huh actually it's both because there is another pronunciation but the common one no I want to go to the other side though I'm gonna go to the back I'll go to the back that was the front this is the back I was able a minute on the regime bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim who Allah Allah then well then well then that's in the back whoops how about the middle it's not actually dead middle okay but it's close to the middle in Edina how about that ice chapter 3 verse 19 by the way contain Jairo Oh Martin that's chapter three verse a hundred and ten know what I'm showing you is that we know this in Arabic every Muslim on the earth knows this book in the Arabic - one point six billion know that it's in Arabic and we have some of them memorized and all of us know it's only in Arabic no wait this is where it gets good how many in this room you know somebody who memorized the whole entire Quran cover to cover raise your hand in Arabic you met somebody you know somebody somebody in your family raise your hand I did this in the University in the United States I said now for the Christians raise your hand if you ever met anybody in your life who memorized the whole Bible in Hebrew and Cohen a Greek and they just went what is that the language my point is not to put down the Bible my point is to put down the people who lie about it because the more I studied the Hebrew in the cone a Greek the more I began to realize that what I was learning from the Quran in English I was written English Yusuf Ali you remember it was the same thing especially the one I read to you just now and they helped me with Lamia lid when I'm you're like listen to this I'm gonna give you a translation of scripture God is not a man and God is not the son of man is this in the Quran is it in the Quran yes but I didn't quote it from the Quran I quoted it from the Bible that's in the Book of Numbers chapter 23 verse 19 God is not a man that he should sin and God is not the Son of man that he'll repent and when I read that I said no wait a minute if it says here that God is not a son of man then how is it in the New Testament it's saying Jesus is Son of Man how could he be a God I took it to one of my preacher friends and I said hey look at this what do you say about this you know what he said he said that's a big s son of man the other one's a little s son of man no I think I think you already know as most the audience knows there's no such thing as upper and lowercase letters in Aramaic Hebrew or Arabic means they lied again and then another subject another subject saying Islam spread by the sword Islam spread by the sword I heard chilli preachers telling me get away from these Muslims this land spread by the sword 604 page is 114 chapter 6666 verses the pen and I you count them up guess what and many words in Arabic for swords safe Muhammad Hassan I think 16 words for sword guess how many times I found any of those words in Arabic zero not once in the Bible just the word sword over 200 times oops wait you asked me I'm just telling you so when I take my Bible to the preacher and I said excuse me it says here that Jesus said I did not come with peace I came with a sword and it's time to sell your coat and buy a sword what did that mean you know what he said listen to this you'll never believe how people can lie he said don't you know this was done in Italy where they transcribed this stuff the Latin you know it was in Italy Rome is in Italy don't you know that I said yeah he said and they would work by candlelight at night and it was hard to see yeah and while they were trying to translate you know put this down in the Latin language you know what happened they were eating spaghetti the Italians they like spaghetti and spaghetti fell down and it was made it s it was word it wasn't sword it was word he said I came with the word then you know what's wrong with that the word for word in Kona Greek is logos now how did they turn the logos in the sword by dropping spaghetti on it and here excuse me but what does it mean sell your coat and buy a word what is it a game show on TV I'd like to buy that word right there for $100 please what is this and the more I talk to them the more I could see lie after lie after lie and finally I said you know what I don't need to be in a religion full of liars but it didn't convince me about Islam yet where I got convinced about Islam is over a separate subject and then the Quran and the Bible backed it up right there buddy in the heart because nobody can play with your heart that's yours you own it it's yours you can do whatever you want with it it is yours right that's the one thing nobody can imprison they can lock me in a prison put me in a box throw me in the ocean but they can't control this that's mine that's yours you own it so if you get inside of that heart like I did and clean it out and throw all the trash in the garbage out of there throw the lies out of there the misconceptions of prejudice and just give it all up and say you know what I belong to God I just longed to God God guide me and that's what I did and when I did that I had this strange impression I need to put my head on the ground and so I did that and with my head on the ground I said these words Gabriel Oh God if you're there guide me and when I got up I realized something I'm the one with the problem the world's not the problem I was the problem and from that day to this day 19 years I'm saying the same thing every day 17 times a day hit Deena sirat al-mustaqim guide us to the straight path Adina sirat al-mustaqim guide us to the straight path and I'm going to tell you something I'm not psychic and we don't believe in psychics and magic and all that stuff we don't but I'm gonna tell you something oh and now your new brothers and sisters is gonna see something strange because Gabriel and I never met we're not setting this up what he doesn't even know what I'm gonna say but Gabriel you've been praying in your heart asking God to get you or you wouldn't be standing there right now is that true or false there you go there's your verification he said that's true and I know it because I've been through this again and again and again thousands of people I watched come to Islam again and again just like Gabriel they're looking for truth they're not looking for Islam they're not looking for the Quran they're just looking for truth real truth and because there's only one God and only one way to get to God it has to be on his terms and there's only one way and we said it in Adina in the LA hey it's now the only thing the law wants from you is this simple thing your heart it's what he wants give him your heart and everything else will be fine and how you do that I'm gonna give you five words in the English language they have to be all at the same time surrender submission obedience sincerity and peace do you want those things in your life it's up I do to everybody in this room wants those things all at the same time though surrender submission obedience to His commandments you know the ten commandments we got the same thing there's the same thing it's not a new religion and then sincerity to be sincere no lies no showing off no reality for Allah only and finally to be in peace with whatever he gives you say okay thank you even if you like it thank you if you don't like it thank you anyway because it's from him be in peace with it this word in Arabic is one takes five words in English you know what the word is in Arabic no it's now it's really that's the word first thing I just asking privately now I'm just gonna ask again just confirm that you believe that God is really only one God I do believe there was only one God so now say after me I swear I'd swore there's no God to worship except Allah there was no God to worship except Allah and I swear I think I swore that Muhammad is His Prophet but more ladies this is perfect now this next part is Arabic it means the same thing but when you say it you're going to be saying the language that God sent it down yet the same language similar to Jesus and Abraham and ready ash-hadu an LA ilaha il-allah wa ashadu ashadu anna muhammad ali muhammad rasul allah rasool allah rasool allah perfect

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Length: 54min 20sec (3260 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 13 2013