Why the West Needs Islam - Yusuf Estes

you you you Oh you you you you sui-lan Hungary Leonor salat wa salam ala cyril hulk Mohammed Meah Bella hurt him in the begin allah subhanho wa taala our salah who I met in line I mean why the Eddy he was happy where I am and Sarah and that be him whatever energy home Alejo me Dean all praise is due to Allah the beneficent most gracious most merciful we praise Him we seek his help and we seek his forgiveness we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of ourselves and the evil of our actions whomever Allah guides none can misguide and whomever lost leads astray none can guard I bear witness that there is no God or deity worthy of worship but one God Allah and I bear witness that muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam is His slave and messenger as I bear witness that no ibrahim musa and Muhammad they are brethren in Islam as a beloved prophet muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam has said al anbiya who were worthy new home where head that the prophets are brethren and their religion is one my dear brothers and sisters in Islam are welcome you'll our special guests the non-muslims we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to guard you to the truth and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that would walk into paradise hand by hand use of his tears is late again so obviously first of all we need to realize his age and he has problems he needs to go to the toilet every now and then so for that reason I intend to tell you about a special man in my life this man is my grandfather this man he was living in an area called a strata in Lebanon and he's from a family that is very religious there Maronite Christians and they used to have this culture and custom that they used to teach the children from a young age a certain trade so they've sent him to a Muslim who is professional in tailing tailing clothing and subhanAllah this Muslim man he'd always parents upon opportunities with his character his behavior and he'd be talking to Muslims and non-muslims about Islam because the Muslim their themselves are in desperate need to know Islam the majority of Muslims their themselves die know Islam and this is something that we need to acknowledge so at an age of 12 subhanAllah my grandfather at that age he started to listen and look at this great example this tailor at an age of 13 he embraced Islam and they were very rich and he used to go to the church and chant inside the church so his parents found out at an age of 13 but they said he's young he'll get over at an age of 15 he showed steadfastness he was firm as we Muslims should be so they've brought him forward amongst the family and they said to him listen you have two choice you either leave Islam or leave the house that's the ultimatum that's what you have these are the only two choices that you have in front of you what do you want he said I'm willing to leave the house he left Lebanon at an age of 15 years old my young brothers and sisters in Islam listen to this amazing story and that's how Muslims should be a Pharisee banais and utricle and the Akula lemon there were whom left and do people think that they will say that we believe and they will not be facing any trials or confrontations at an age of 15 he left Lebanon and he went to Brazil he stayed there 14 years he worked save some money and came back to Lebanon he went into a partnership with a Muslim man this Muslim man within six months ripped him off everything that he saved in a 10-year period subhanAllah Halloween it was gone his parents found out and as I said they were very wealthy they were the surname was za bleat and Hum Dil ed that he changed his name to ma today so what happened his parents found out they came down they came to Tripoli where he was and they've said to him that we've heard that you've lost everything he said who told you this he said I'm a multimillionaire I said what do you mean we've just been told by your friends that you've lost everything everything that you saved in Brazil has gone and this Muslim man ripped you off unfortunately some Muslims who don't understand Islam they think cheating is permissible the prophet muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam has said man russia Felisa mina whomever cheats he is not of us whomever cheats muslims Jewish Christian with us why do you think Islam is spread all over the world at the moment and the biggest Islamic country which is Indonesia they've embraced Islam through the trade and the character and the honesty and the trust of Muslims subhanAllah Hadi they said to him we willing to compensate you on the condition that you leave Islam he said I'm a multi-millionaire I said what do you mean he said I still have Islam if you want to be rich if you want to be wealthy if you want to be content it is by you obeying your Creator and a lot of Hanna what the Ana puts us through trials and afflictions my dear brothers and sisters and there is life that's life Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has sit in al-quran in lovina Colora bounine law so messed up all those who indeed say that our Lord is Allah and then they are steadfast they're not shaky they're not those that allah subhanho wa taala has mentioned in al quran were mean and nasty mania would allow her either her birth and there are some people that worship Allah on an edge when good happens they are grateful but when the calamity befalls upon them they fall back on this on their face they've lost this worldly love in the Hereafter listen to this amazing verse in the Quran in alladhina Korriban Allah and leaders who say that our Lord is Allah semester hum and then they are steadfast if someone comes to you my dear sister and state starts to make fun of your hey Jer be steadfast say I am the follow of Mary I'm a muslima mark creator the most gracious most merciful has commanded me to put the hay jab because women to us like a diamond you'll live up when I uncover a diamond would you and if someone comes to laugh at you my dear brother here you've got the beard and you follow or you want to follow Jesus Moses Muhammad peace be upon him all let them laugh you'll fall in their footsteps so handle lot to confirm what I've just said once I was on foot spray I just came out of a clinic I was walking around the corner and the young boy was running and he looked at me honest and he ran back and he said my mom Jesus Jesus subhanallah natural so a lots of hello Italia has sit in al-quran in alladhina card or a boon Allah indeed those who say that our Lord is a long semester coma and then they state fast they're not shaky they're not passed on Muslims they're not Muslims any Ramadan or during Hajj they're always Muslims they're Muslim with their wives they treat them well they give him respect there's mutual respect there they obviously Muslim when they are dealing with non-muslims they showed them Islam through their behavior in the character they're Muslims with their children they are a role model they give him their rights they're Muslims with non-muslims as I said to be a great example not to see a lot to cheat not to abuse this is Islam Islam is not just praying fasting performing pilgrimage no it's Aslam is greater than this a lot of Hana what the either has said in al-quran why Buddha Rebecca hot yeah Atia Kelly a keen worship your Lord until certainty comes to you what is certainty death because people have differences of opinion about Jesus about Moses about Muhammad but this one there's something that we all have consensus upon which is this so a lots of Hanover dieter has called you clean death why bored Rebecca Hector Tia Kelly a keen worship your Lord until death certainty comes to you so Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala has it in Elodie Nicole or a boon Allah indeed those who say that our Lord is Allah some master Tom and then they are steadfast that Anna's lor a human Malaika angels descend upon them while they are dying and they would say talk to them and let a half well kazeno were actionable Jana fee not no worry and glad tidings that you Destiny's paradise look at the beautiful subhanAllah look at the amazing status that she'll be at at a time when people are crying around you and the angels are addressing you and Hum Dil my grandfather has changed his name as I said from the bleat - Mata D and I ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that every good deed that I do it will be in the scale of good deeds for him the day of judgment may Allah protects you and preserve you all without any further delay use of its test is here just like on the low head or thank you very much for being great listeners bismillah alhamdulillah wa salatu salam o rasulullah ashhadu an la illaha in the law well I said one [ __ ] octave Russell we said I'm going on it's good to be here with all of you again tonight some of you didn't stay all night did you just camp out mashallah I like that I was listening to the program from back then and I was thinking about what happens when people who are not Muslim hear about Islam in the media web sites even you know from some people who said they had contacts with some Muslims and I was remembering what happened when I first had the chance to meet a Muslim how many of you heard about the story you already heard it I'm not going to bother you with it again um do you have anybody here tonight it's a Muslim or the Muslims at who are they if the Angels came right now I wanna know who's the Muslims who'd raise their hand let's see huh hello okay do have anybody here it's not a Muslim yet you already got the beard man I see you're good to go how about over here huh clothes and when people hear the story of what some Muslims do and then this of course has to be exaggerated a little bit then we find some you're pretty rotten stories that come around and just the other day right here in Australia there was a chance for me to interview some people I'd like to do that man on the street thing with the camera and go around and ask the people what have you heard about it's not what you know about Muslims have ever seen any of those programs will they do that and you listen to people's responses some of them are hysterical and some of them you'll be surprised at it that a person not Muslim or say Oh Islam well this time you have to do something called Shahada then they have to do prayer five times a day and they go down the list and you're like whoa all right and then others will say Islam I remember one time I asked me I said have you heard of Islam he's thinking thinking I said you know Islam he said is that a salad dressing I don't like wet but you know so you have everything in between but then there are those that have a really bad notion about Islam and it's fair because if that's all they know that's all they know but it should be that after somebody is dealing with Muslims even for a short period of time that they'd have a pretty good impression of Islam and what the Muslims are about but as we just heard a few minutes ago sometimes some of the Muslims are pretty tough and not so good and then that leaves a bad impression for all the rest of us we do have according to the Catholic Church's the latest release for whatever that's worth we do have the distinction now being the largest religion in the world that's corny Catholic Church Islam is to them the largest of all the religions on earth we pass them up they said in the last census you don't look excited it doesn't really matter does it does it if we have one more or one less Muslim out of one and a half or two billion people I can't tell the difference you can't tell the difference but it makes a lot of difference how the Muslims we have behaved the o'clock of the Muslim is really what it's all about the behavior the manners the way of the Muslim when we talk about the people of the West so-called West then the so-called East so-called Middle East there are always be cultural difference and there's going to be traditions that some tribes and people have that will separate them from the other people but when we start talking about religion most religions have something that are they kind of leans toward their own area for instance Hindus obviously are going to be basically from India why well that's really the name it's not really Indians Hindustan and their religions named after the blaze that's in dualism Christianity is not exactly the same way though because it does have adherence from all of the population in the world Judaism on the other hand is pretty strict if you want to be a real Jew you to be born under the tribe of juda so the only way you can really join us get a blood transfusion put somebody that's on there if you want to go by that and then buddhism is that just limited really to certain areas some people are attracted to it but what about islam islam claims to be for all places and all people and all times this is the claim in islam because i grew up with a christian background i can speak from that to the extent at least for the first 50 years and tell you that i definitely saw whether they will ever admit it or not prejudiced because even today we have christian churches that are for chinese and christian churches for japanese and we have christian churches for black people christian churches for mexican people even though they speak english but wouldn't it be strange to you and i if somebody said oh don't go to that mosque over there because that's black people because any mustard in the world could have a black person as the imam or a white person or a yellow person or any color person and wouldn't think about it would we all we want to know is can he recite the quran correctly that would be the main thing when Malcolm X was close to real Islam you know it used to be in the Nation of Islam but when he came to real Islam that was one of the things that struck him because he had gone for hedge and he was amazed he said you'd be praying right next to a white person under a blacks and browns and all the colors and all you know altogether it was amazed he talked about it one of the things he said was that when he did Salah and some small mustard in in Mecca they weren't actually at the big Haram they were in a small mush that he said that he noticed that the one leading was probably from Africa but he was black and so he went to him after the prayer and he said did you ever think he'd have a chance to be leading prayer in front of all these white guys he said remember him he said what are you talking about because of the stigma the thing that he grew up in in his mentality this was a big deal you know to try to finally get a chance to be up and level with whitey that's what he talked about and I watched the by the way I used to be white I tried to keep a straight face I couldn't but you still watch when I was really little I watch my cousin's you know and they were telling me something one time about coloreds and I always think color you know color at that time was a big deal because movies were black and white what television there was and there weren't that many TVs around they were all black and white but there was something new out called Technicolor this is a big deal Tadeo Technicolor and it was something called Buena Vista which is a part of Disney for the animal things kind of like the the early version of Animal Planet okay that they had in movie house and it was in color Technicolor so he start dubbing he with his friends about we're going to see some coloreds today colored people and I was thinking wow like rainbows or something I'm amazing I have no idea what they were talking about until we were going down to the beach and they had a big sign up no coloreds and I'm thinking why can't you have any color on the beach I don't get it this is 1940s and it was so bad that people took it for granted and it was alright but still little kids they don't get this they don't really see that because they start out innocent we mentioned that last night that when children are born they're in a state of innocence not a state of guilt you know and so they don't perceive this this horrible thing in Arabic you've got something that extends over into tribalism and and bipartisan it's called a Subbiah and this is worse than that is something horrible and so we were now making a migration from up north to Texas I remember that and on the way we stopped in a place called Arkansas when we stopped in the gas station my dad told the kids that go back there you guys use a bathroom come on and we're gonna go you know how it would be well my my sister's got the babies but girls you know somebody else had demands and I kept going in that said colored said God colored that's gonna be great you know okay I wanted to see what a colored bathroom looks like inside I could imagine that is gonna be something I want to come out us not that great of a bathroom and some guy Selma concept what did you go in there for I didn't want to tell him you know but I used the bathroom he said no that's what colored I didn't get it but even though we've been through a lot in our country and we've seen busing taking the black children to the white areas white children to the black areas they spent all of our Social Security money to do it all the reserve for Social Security they used it up for that in the 60s it got really bad and then it got to the point where we had some very serious violence and when Martin Luther King jr. was given a speech he said that he had a dream and his dream was to see the children all together growing up together going to school together that was a dream that he had and he said that right after that they assassinated him they killed him this is the kind of hatred that comes with that for what for the color of his skin can you imagine that and you might think that that's all over with we don't have that problem know what it does it just goes deeper it hides its head down low you know under the radar but it's still there you doubt what I said can it extends beyond just the white black thing it's also a man/woman thing you know in the West they still have a problem with women holding high position I believe that how come Hillary Clinton is out of the race hmm because watch what happens now with Obama when he goes up against McCain McClain is what what color real white we'll see I could be wrong I've been wrong before we'll see the point that I'm trying to get at really is how much the West really needs to understand what the true islam is about because it's the thing that they claim to be looking for the that claim that they're making when they make their big speeches and pontificate ad infinitum on their great and wonderful principles that they'd like to offer to the people of the ignorant you know backward third-world countries a white girl who is a Christian in Colorado was talking with friends and got the notion that she needed to go save the Muslims and others of Africa she joined some peace group whatever it was and went traipsing all the way over to Africa and she's out here you know going from place to place thinking she's going to save these people and she had a good good heart don't get me wrong I'm not making fun of her just this is the notion that she had true they were poor so poor the people there in grass huts who are literally making their houses what they lived in from whatever was available around them palm trees and grass huts things like this but when she visited the village the people would treat it like it was the festival and she thought because I'm American I'm going to give them civilization here I'm going to you know save them and everything and this is why they're holding this big celebration when I come and there was food a lot of food more than she could eat let it be always say no no take more take more and more food and more food Oh since she goes to the next village again all the food is everywhere just eat it come on go out it oh we've got cucumbers tomatoes whatever eat along the way she was at one of the villages in the pivot and she said I cannot eat anymore and she said I thought you guys were like poor over here said we are our children are starving she said what was all this food everywhere I go oh there's plenty of food the guide that she had said it mam it's because you're here oh they're Muslims and they're taking everything they have for the whole village because you're the guest cuz this is Islam it doesn't matter our condition our guests are first she started crying she said I didn't come over here to hurt these people I thought I could help them and after she did a little soul-searching she realized that they actually had more than she did because she did not have the capacity to do what they were doing to actually take food out of their own children's mouths they were going from house to house do you have anything at all I have a cucumber okay have you got anything I have half a tomato give it to us what do you have over here okay okay a piece of bread and they literally were taking everything they had just so she would not feel uncomfortable and insisting that she eat it many of you know exactly what I'm talking about but there are a lot of people in the world today who don't have a clue about that they don't understand that by the way this lady made Shahada put on hijab and went back to Colorado telling the people about Islam of course they came up with this typical look for whoever goes to Islam they've always got something to say about it and in her case probably she got malaria or something she's been crazy ever since when Cassius Clay back was it 50 years ago 40 years ago and he was a boxer he was number one on top and everybody's like Cassius Clay whoa who is this guy amazing he accepted Islamic changed his name to Muhammad Ali you know what they said right away too many shots to the head that'll do it drive you nuts went right off there was a jazz singer that Elton John was so jealous of he was glad when he became a Muslim and he said I never had any competition after he got out of the business what was he talking about Cat Stevens Cat Stevens I think he was Greek Orthodox or something I don't remember but it was Christian at least by name but when he entered Islam all the people that used to love it all because his kid's got a great voice even today he's got a good voice and very creative with his music but as soon as he became Muslim you know what they said because he had been in the hospital too many drugs look at that and by the way it was TV not drugs he was in there for but this is the kind of thing that people will say and it means that they have to try to explain why do you have to explain if somebody decided for instance they don't want to be a Republican they want to be a Democrat that's in my country why do you have to explain something what can it be that's just a choice why is it you have to make excuse and they do you should hear some of the things that people said even about me and my family when we came to Islam it was a lot harder though they had to work really hard to come up with something cuz hey everybody knew us everybody knew what we were all about my dad started the concerned Christian centers and he always had donated and worked to build things and gave never took anything so you couldn't even twist it around the oil they're trying to use this as the front for their business like some Christians do we didn't do that each time somebody goes to Islam you will see there I was going to be resistance you're going to be heavy resistance when I came to stem I got into Salaam and some my relatives were telling me stay away from those Muslims and when I would explain because that was the one that really called my family to Christianity to start with okay so when I go to a slam and I came back to him now they were like whoa you know we can't listen to you anymore I said well I found the next step up come on look something happened a very bad experience happen with some Muslims did something really bad which in fact I never tell the story is that bad still it was only a couple and it was certainly not representative of Islam it was some bad people that's all and again they come to me right see see we told you we told you now come on back and be with us I said for what I came in Islam not for you not for them I came in Islam because it's the only thing it makes any sense Islam is the only thing that offers proof for everything it says and there's nothing illogical about one staying won one stays one hello what's the problem you don't have to go through this big contortion of world you see three and one and the Trinity is and the way that just that faith you don't have to do that and I like that one equals one and the story no more Express after that and as far as Jesus being God son of God part of God what's the nature of Jesus simple he was a human being but he was a miracle creation of a human being just like Adam and Eve next question and so when something like this happens and somebody comes into Islam should it be that they've got a real easy road it should be real easy young because if you go to the right way why would it be difficult should be real simple if you use that logic then what happens is it should be then that all Muslims are in good shape all the time it should be that according to that logic Muslims would never have any hard time that would always be in a good way make sense one of the places that I'm supposed to go speak coming up in July sent me something I read it yesterday and one of the speeches they they like the name the speech these are guys that do a speech one I mean a conference maybe once in their whole life they put it together they bring speakers in they just give you a title of something I remember one time they said coming to Islam what can I do with that and I said that's the name of the speech well I said what can I do with that and in this case they wanted me to talk about the happy prophets you know prophets the happy people something like this I looked at that I want what I mean this what you say is like a cartoon yeah sound like a cartoon show okay the happy profits are coming on content yeah content that's what we decided today is a better word that a lot of talks about believers robbed the Allahu Allah or rather on the the people are pleased with the law and Allah he's pleased with them pleased or content but not happy I don't mean that you can't be happy and be a Muslim but what I'm saying is that profits especially are going to be the ones who are going to suffer the most and this is because why they're getting a huge reward for what they're doing and Allah tells us in the Quran it's in chapter 29 the ankle boot or spider aural dablam initiatory regime a hassle business on your cornea hulu amana the human beings think they're going to be left alone because they said we believe and they won't put into houston noon which is from fitna it means big trial calamity difficulty squeeze you you know because a lot continues he did the same thing to the people before you to show who are the truthful and who are the liars because if you're really true you believe in the law and you want to do something about it okay go ahead and try and you might say well why why would that be a difficulty part of that is to understand what the real purpose of life is part of that is to understand who your creator really is to understand that would be then to understand your role in all of this and then you would find out what you're supposed to be doing and there's where the rub comes not rub in arabic rub in english the rub the problem that you're going have is that you would soon realize that you can't do what you want to do that we're here to do what he wants us to do and if we understood that then there are a lot of things we'd have to give up you narrow your options down to be a real Muslim and a lot of people don't want to do that they don't want to give up their desires their lusts their personal goals and that's where the problem comes so if somebody's attacking you as a Muslim if somebody's even attacking Islam in front of you realize that it's not it's not really you it's not us as a whole the problem is that they're responding to something that's coming to them that they don't want to accept they don't want to accept it because it would mean they'd have to give up all the stuff they're doing you fought me that's the problem in the West for the most part not everybody the by the way it's wrong to sum up and say everybody's like this isn't it isn't that wrong you don't like if somebody said that about us right no we're all human beings we have different ideas hopes and goals true for the most part Muslims are good we would say that and for the most part the Muslims are following Islam and doing a pretty darn good job but there are some sneakers out there true and in the same case when you look to the West it's wrong to say all the West is like this because they're not they're also good people there and they're also human beings and they have goals they have desires they have things they're trying to do as well and there are some actually who are working looking searching trying to find the truth and they would love to know some of the things that you take for granted every day it would probably be and I'm not really I'm pretty sure that I'm right when I say this that many of the people of the West would love to hear about it until they found out it was Islam simply because of the preconceived notion of Islam and Muslims but if they knew how beautiful is this being this way and how it saw so many of the problems that they have they would be very happy with it so by now I think we should give you some examples of that I've made my statement so really if I quit now that was it that's all I want to tell you but I would like to give you some examples of that one example is when I hear people I'm going to show you something how is the reverse of everything this is just like almost like turning a subject upside down and looking at it again somebody comes to us and attacks us I mentioned that last night and they say oh what a dumb thing look it look it god you're so backward how what's this thing about right hand left hand thing what is that all about come on you know cuz we shake hands with this we don't want somebody to give us a left hand doing no this is very bad somebody hand you two left hand he better be crippled in the other hand boom but look that's wrong didn't it what I use this hand for besides shaking hands what I use for eating this is very eating do I eat with this hand but how do how do we eat imagine sitting with somebody and he's gonna put his left hand out there aaaa was that why because you're backward you don't even know your left hand from your right hahaha even I heard one recently say that they want to take this apart and said how are you going to deal in a socially acceptable environment I like the way they put this right and eat in a decent restaurant with utensils you know it sound like you're talking to a primitive caveman right because when you cut your meat don't you pick up the knife with this hand yeah and you pick up the fork with this hand yeah you cut the meat huh now what's wrong with you you can't you just put that in your mouth what's the matter with you we don't eat with the left hand oh that's so backward even though now check this out there's a reason we do this because this hand would keep it clean because this hand we use to clean ourselves after the toilet oh oh how backward don't you use paper the United States Navy did a study they had this pretty cool way to do it too because in the Navy you got people out on a boat they can't get in touch with other people out there and what they did they had people washing their hands before and after their meals on another ship they ran the same test and had these guys not wash their hands before and after the meals to see what would happen totally and completely no doubt about it the ones washing hands before and after had the least amount of sicknesses being passed around of course we know that real well nowadays because of what's happened with the studies that they've done and how many times people are getting this hepatitis is called hepatitis B I think that they're getting from these fast-food places where they go in and maybe the guy who works there and you go to the bathroom and come back it doesn't wash his hands next thing you know there's an outbreak and this all over the whole city everybody that ate there got it so now they have these signs up there you know all employees must wash hands things like that another time a woman who worked for a insurance company independent study went out to a big corporation they had so many employees taking off time being sick being ill and so they asked her to come in and do a study she went on every floor of the building and all their sub buildings everything around there and and did tests laboratory tests and they would put this material I saw the video on it and she was putting this stuff I don't know it's like a dust or powder or something on the telephones on the keyboards on this kind of thing and then she would come back and collect it all up later and they did studies and they found fecal matter on the telephones and on the keyboards and on the fax machines and all the rest of it along with other germs as well because people weren't taking care to wash themselves after going to the toilet so again they are insisting employees wash hands and it makes a huge difference you wouldn't believe there was going to be such a difference over that now how does this work into the left hand right hand hand thing how does that come in well I got to stay on the subject a little bit more to get to it for you if you want to talk about the toilet paper thing okay number one I asked you and I has it no you guys most of you don't have a dog but in the West everybody's got a dog yeah and ask them if you went out to pick up the paper in the morning the newspaper you're gonna pick it up okay boy threw it in the grass you go pick it up you put your hand down and go oh man somebody walk the dog right by here look at this yeah you got it on you so what are you gonna do you're gonna tear the newspaper and wipe that off we're going to go over to the hose and wash it off which one so for the dog you're washing but for you you're using paper ah now you're getting a clue you start to get a clue because what happens when a person watches themselves and this is what Muslims actually are doing for the left-hand date they're using water and totally washing themselves like if you were going to go to the bathtub or something and the difference is tremendous because after this washing the hands and all this hand is really a lot cleaner than you think now imma take you back a thousand years the big scientists doctors and scholars of the time were in Andaluz Andalusia and Spain and these people were Muslims and they were using the principles taught by Muhammad's assalam 400 years before them and they were analyzing these things talking about being very philosophical about these things people like even sinner and rushed in other people like this that are still today mentioned in the medical books history books find that they were coming up with some very amazing things for them at their time so much so that by the time of the Black Plague in Europe which we'll call the west of those days the people there were dying like flies so fast they couldn't bear him they were throwing them on wagons dead bodies on wagons and it was so bad that people were everywhere finding these diseases this something was killing them they called it the Black Death or Black Plague you can read it better go get the Encyclopedia read about it but these same people used to send their children to be educated in Spain because that's where the real higher learning was they sent to Spain but they found something amazing even though some of the studies came down with these diseases it was only the students that came from Europe but none of the locals got it why and they came to know that it was because of this this cleaning this hand and only eating with this hand and this hand only for anything dirty and still washing it anyway the difference was that they were able to go back and solve the problem in Europe and that was the end of the Black Plague after they understood it by the way you won't find that in the common history books anymore today there's no reason to remain that is it especially because there's a connection to Islam I'm going to share you with another one with you think about this I was coming home one night from a program it's very late at night driving back with my wife and let me drive and I put my head down on the steering wheel at a red light and I was so tired I can't lift my head back up my little daughter was with me and she's saying daddy wake up daddy wake up I said I can't I'm exhausted I'm gonna pull over and stop and she reached over and turned the radio on real loud and I like to listen to top and the first thing come out it was the beginning of the sentence a man's voice said always sit down when you eat or drink one huh said never stand up when you eat or drink I'm going Jim up the bleachers and down what is this what's this guy talking about you know enjoy it oblique they always tell you that don't they sit down when you eat or drink this is Sunnah resource uh Delilah Salaam you sit you know when you eat or drink it or stand up and I'm thinking was this he began explaining the damage that's caused starting at the neck and going all the way down and he described all the kinds of problems from the hernia to the pulling and tearing here in this board in the stomach and all the operations that could be avoided if people would just sit while they eat or drink I mean I was wide awake I drove all the way home listening to that but now you got a problem because now if you realized what he said and understood all of the damage done to your body by standing up so now you're going to sit down when you eat or drink are you doing it for Islam for Allah are you doing it for your health make sense 1400 years ago somebody giving you advice you make fun of it until you find all oh it really works yeah it was probably having a lucky guess huh it surprises me that the Muslims don't pick up on this faster I've seen people who were not Muslim see things happen and then come to Islam here's another example I used to be in a hotel bag business plastic bags - distributor and I would go around different places and set up dealers and I happen to be waiting for a person to get done with a customer in a store once he had a vitamin store health food store things like that and I'm just walking around looking in what does he got going here and it had some something there in the toothpaste Department health toothpaste of some kind and the claim on this toothpaste thing says that it's the only substance on earth that can remove plaque and tartar from your teeth without damaging the enamel it improves the gums and even cleans the tongue and all the way down into your stomach and it mentioned the ingredient some technical name that I still can't pronounce but it said it comes from C wack huh from what miswak yeah and he showed a stick on there and it was trimmed back and I saw it I said that's a miswak stick and I turned it over dr. Muhammad's toothpaste four dollars and 75 cents for this little small huh and you still have to go buy a toothbrush or if you use the real miswak instead of getting one or 2% I think that's what it said it was on there you get a hundred percent and use the to stick that the problem used and I've heard people today say oh you know that's so tacky you carry a stick with you Oh oh but when you see and even today you see any of the brothers who use it regularly what are their teeth look like huh light bulbs when they go you know whoa oh wow ah am I right or wrong it's amazing in it but now oh let's go back to the guy cutting his steak huh go back and read Emily Post you know who's Emily Post hmm oh yeah go back and check the people who tell you about proper manners the proper manners is yes you pick up the knife of the right hand you pick up the fork with the left you'll cut the steak and then you lay the knife down and you pick the fork up with the right and you eat it with the right so it always was the same anyway because this goes all the way back to Europe at a time when they were getting over that problem of the Black Plague hello so often we're taking criticism from ignorant people and then adding more ignorance on top of it and rejecting what's really intelligence I'm saying not only the West needs its name I'm saying Muslims need Islam yes or no yeah we deviated far away far away from the realness now it's not just in the eating and the health and taking care of our bodies but it's also in the way we treat each other and that's much worse is it some more important aspect of Islam its treatment of others because after your correct relationship with your Lord the very next important thing is your correct relationship with the people and if it sucks then what are you all about how are your a good Muslim and nobody likes you how how does that work at the time of rasulallah lad was salam even his enemies had respect for him some of his enemies had respect for him yes or no and when I find Muslims who don't have respect even for their own scholars and teachers I'm wondering what's going on what is this where's the proper behavior one of the things that happens is the boob tube but you start watching that thing and you watch these scenarios that they fabricate and put on there and you start thinking that's how people really are and one of the things that we noticed more than anything else is the bad treatment given to parents in most of these programs and that's not new that didn't just happen last week that's been going on since the 1930s before there was television all the way back to the time of Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood and blondie they always showed him the father of the house the leader of the family as a real dim bulb a real yo-yo a schmuck they did and it was funny everybody would make fun of that and then they had programs about it and there the little kid is always the smart with Dennis the Menace the kid is always the brilliant one the parents are stupid the kids real sharp and he's putting them down to the extent today they just start right out the very first joke they got is a kid going oh what a yo-yo and everybody's laughing judaism christianity in islam forbid that they forbid that in fact it's an order in all three of the monotheistic religions that the parents are so high so high that they're mentioned in the commandments in this priority after God Almighty Allah worship Him alone and keeping religion pure for him and staying away from false worship and worshipping a court to his rules that's the first four commandments number five and the commandments is how you treat your parents it comes before number six which is don't kill it's exactly the same order in the Quran no difference so regardless of what your take is on which religion on which book I think all of us need to go back and look and think what are we doing how could we possibly treat our elders as we do today how could we even make jokes it's not acceptable to put down your mother to put down your father to talk about your elders your teachers regardless of their religious affiliation regardless of their political minds they're your parents and you have to give them that dignity am I wrong or right I can't hear you I'm sorry they wanted me to talk about how the West needs Islam I'm saying all of us needed I'm saying that it's not something that's like an obscure thing for one area here or there I'm saying if you're a human being how can you live without Islam how and most people on the earth have some points of Islam in their life and they don't know it is that true or false it's true think about it if somebody is willing to put the other person ahead of their needs is that a teaching in Islam if somebody is willing to sacrifice from their selves to help somebody else this Islam if somebody is going to feed somebody in the day of need or take care of the orphan or the traveler the Wayfarer is that part of Islam it may be that they don't have the right beliefs but how about the actions and when we find that there are so many people who want to do something good they have an idea how about this instead of cutting them down to the level of okay because you don't believe what I believe you're totally wrong how about emphasizing the good that people do and encourage them to do more okay you got a good deed here how about let's add to that I mentioned something last night but I'll mention it again that sometimes we find people over the face who start hanging around the Muslims and even to the extent that they they like what they hear they like what they see they feel good when they're with you because you're good Muslim you don't drink alcohol you don't smoke cigarettes you don't play with drugs you don't chase after women and as long as these things are in place especially you don't cut people down you don't make somebody feel like low they feel good they want to be with you to the extent not when you want to do solo they want to pray they want to stand upright with you when you're fasting they want to fast with you so you ask them well once you become a Muslim what no no no no no but they're still doing some good deeds yeah but we come back to the same thing again to remind them that as much as your good deeds you're doing how about this idea how about enroll in the program to get the benefits how about sign up huh for the job so you can get paid on payday make sense are you going to do all this good stuff anyway what is it to enter Islam it is to say with conviction that there really is God one God and that you want to worship him on his terms that's the very beginning that's the first step immediately followed by the second step to bear witness that Muhammad brought the message that I just said that there's one God and you need to do what he wants you to do what is so tough about this for somebody who already claims to believe in the monotheistic faith and the answer comes that people say well this is what I grew up in this is what I found my forefathers doing I'm committed to this because my family is this my tradition is this and so on Allah subhana WA Ta'ala mentions that in the Quran this is exactly the excuse that people use but it's not a valid excuse it is ignorance because if you know something will benefit you more than what you have why can't you abandon that for what's better for you why not and I'm going to wrap it up by telling you what happened to me when I was trying to convert the Muslim to Christianity when it comes to debating I considered myself pretty good at it I used to do it used to love to debate any subject didn't have to be about religion what do you want to debate I take either side I enjoyed it and he could tell I'm trying to convert him and at one point he says my religion islam teaches me that if i find something better than what i have i have to go for that i said what you said yeah whatever we have if we find something better we leave what we have and take what is better I got him I said you mean to tell me if you find a better religion you go to it he said yeah if there's a better religion I'll go to it all righty because Christianity you don't have to fast what is it 30 days and Ramadan you don't have to pray five times a day you don't have to go to Mecca you'll have to do a pilgrimage you don't have to pay something called zakat in fact you don't even have to be nice to be a Christian you shorten but it's not a mandate the mandate is to say Jesus died for your sins that's the big thing and he's the son of God that's easy when I said that to him he said well I'll go to your religion if your religion is better than mine but you need proof proof excuse me religion is not about proof religion is about faith he said miss Lam we have both faith and proof so do you mean to sit there and tell me as a Muslim you can prove there's God he said you mean to sit there and tell me as a preacher you can't ah what was the question whoo now I'm curious I gotta know I gotta know what is the proof that there is God because actually I'd want to know that all my life I know there's God but I don't have any proof I just know it but how okay I can't imagine a time when I didn't believe there was God really I remember back in the 1960s mid 60s about the time of the motorcycle gangs that were going over to the hippy thing with the flower children all that stuff Life magazine came out with a special edition and on the front of it said God is dead and I went oh huh imagine a grown-up doing that I'm a real gopher announcer oh god what happened where's the obituary pages in this thing and it was some kind of nonsense article but it got my attention this is it's something that you know people speculate a lot of things about God offer this and offer that and they come up with some real weird ideas but nobody ever talks about the proof that God exists we have a website that you can go to and get a lot of evidence it's called science Islam calm on it we have video tape of nine different scientists well-known in their fields and in their particular disciplines they studied what the quran is saying about the way the earth is structured the way the mountains are about the where milk comes from Anakin junction of the blood in the intestines mentioning about the bees mentioning details about how the human embryo is formed how it grows the trimesters so many things that they studied and remember these are not Muslims in fact they're atheists but each one I'm at the end of the video said what I found from this seminar convention that they're having and from there was about the Quran hate that there's no way fourteen hundred years ago somebody said these things putting AB in could not have been and some of them said what must be from Allah and one of them spanning while he was giving his talk two and a half minutes into it he said I guess it's time for me to say a shadow Allah Allahu Allah a shadow muhammad rasoolullah this came out in the 1980s and by the late 1990s it became a popular notion amongst a lot of the scientists not a majority but a lot of them around the world that they need to go back and relook and reinvestigate a lot of the things they've been saying and some of them came over the idea they didn't want to say there's God but they did come with a new thing I don't know if you heard about it I D intelligent design they're saying there's some intelligence behind the design but they don't want to go further than that they don't want to lose their fellowship or they want to lose their positions that they have with different universities as you can get cut off at the knees real quick just intelligent design what I'm saying though is proof proof if you want to know about proof some things could be right in front of your face and we used to say you can't see the forest because the trees are in the way and that's why a lot of us are yeah the West needs Islam but I'm telling you all of us need Islam but we need to understand what Islam really is so let's put a cap on it with this the word Islam is coming from a verb as Lama and it carries these five things surrender submission obedience sincerity and peace that if a person will really surrender to God and really submit to His commandments and then obey those Commandments in sincerity then be at peace with whatever comes then he'll be in Islam in Ann Arbor could be a mu Islam Muslim simple as that it's not that complicated and by the way as I mentioned earlier in the program about these prophets in fact they are at peace they are at peace whatever comes to them a true Muslim is content with what Allah gives them and he's also content with what he doesn't get as well we should be happy that we don't get cancer tuberculosis broken legs should be happy that we don't get robbed but at the same time we should be happy that we don't get a lot of money because maybe it would corrupt us maybe it would cause bigger problems for us maybe people would rob us then maybe somebody would get killed over huge amounts of money maybe maybe maybe but the point is Allah knows best and he gave you what he wants you to have what's your problem what are you problem so the prophet's alaihi salam said what translates to english the condition of a true believer is amazing because only good comes to them that when the material things come the things that they want whatever it might be they say sugar Allah thank you two alone they appreciate it and when the difficulties the trials and tribulations come to them they make someone very peace with it persevering and person and he said and it's good for them but it's only in the case of the believer so may Allah make it good for us and make us believers on me Allah guide us keep us in the real game and help the people of the East the West the Middle East and everything in between to understand and put into practice the good of Islam I mean that I want to come off the 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Length: 76min 29sec (4589 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2009