Say I declare that there is no God worthy of worship except the One and Only true God, and
I declare you Muhammed, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you are the messenger of God, then he becomes a Muslim.
Look at it.
You can trace the plagiarisms from the Old Testament.
King James Version and various other things, and you can look at the contradictions
and mistakes and discrepancies because of human being trying to acclaim revelation.
Scripture in the Name on God which is a forgery.
We know 49 of them by name today, the extent of which remains available.
A little bit here, a little little bit there...
So what is become evident that... People throughout times and especially in Christianity
with the examples, they're trying to forge writings and say this is from God when it's not.
The Quran actually says: "Woe to those who write the books with their own hands and say
it is from God. Woe to those for what they write and what they earn thereby."
So, historically, it is evident that people are forging scripture in the name of God, and
they're getting away with it because they're gaining followers as well and your Orthodox
Church Fathers had to write volumes against these heretical groups.
They consider themselves heretics, not representing true Christianity.
So what becomes historically clear and evident
that people are tampering, forging, inventing, adulterating, and say something is from God
when it isn't.
So it happens because of people's own doctrinal affiliation.
Those people were often writing this because they didn't believe in the physical crucifixion
of Christ.
There were certain groups, the Basilideans for examples or others.
They didn't believe Christ died.
In fact, they wrote, the accounts are available to us now; Christ is sitting on the tree, on
a branch and he is smiling and laughing at the wrong man that's crucified. He said: Look,
they got the wrong man, they are crucifying wrong. And Christians didn't, at large,
knew about this until these were discovered, published and translated that there were
early Christians who actually believed in that.
And rather, instead, they started accusing the...
The Islamic theologians and historians: Look,
you invented Christ not being crucified and so on and so forth. What the Quran is saying,
This was a well attested rumour.
That he was crucified and you can see that people... There are people who didn't believe
he was crucified. And so, the reasons why people distort or invent scripture is because
of their own particular affiliation or something right.
They don't like what's there in the scripture and they change it.
They they modified, they add books, take away books, they alter books and so on. So, in line
with all these different scriptures all around,
how do we know which one is the truth from God?
When it comes to the Quran, the question that you gave, the Quran actually gives you a certain criterion.
Okay? It tells you a book from God must demonstrate and provide evidence it is from God, it should have hallmarks
that it's from God. It should not contradict in itself, it should not have any errors, discrepancies,
inconsistencies. And the Quran gives additional falsification test that
if it wasn't from God, you should be able to bring something like it because it's a
product of, in your value judgement, a human being, or a group of human beings, or from
Satan or whatever other than God.
If is something from other than God, you can match something like it.
Any literature, for example, can be imitated.
Shakespeare can be imitated.
Beethoven's music can be imitated. Chat GPT! Just ask it. It will imitate a Shakespeare Sonnet, for example.
So, the Quran, having this falsification test given, stood the test of time.
How old is it here? 1445 years and still people are failing.
So if you were to go and search in internet, you'll see lots of website by atheists,
critics of Islam. Christians. They say: "Oh, there you go, Quranic contradictions."
And if you were to look at the Muslim responses, back and forth, it becomes obvious that lists get
narrower, narrower, narrower to a point.
You're only dealing with one or two and you need to know about a little bit of detailed
rules of Arabic language.
And when you know the language, it's not even a contradiction.
So, why is it that people are failing even with deliberate effort, collected effort by
missionary bodies which have being funded by multi-million and billion dollar industries to
combat the rise of Islam, for example.
And they're failing. Why is it that we find the attempts of saying.
Oh,
I have imitated a chapter the Quran, because Quran says:
Produce a book like it in the Arabic language.
Like the Quran or ten chapters like it or one chapter like it.
Three... Only three lines.
And the attempts are there. Even Muslim... are saying:
But here is your for faulty attempt, because of x, y and z.
We then go to ask our scholars who can do that.
So, if it can stand the test of time, then one needs to critically ask oneself: What else
do I need to confirm that book is from God or not? Because I can see it has a Divine hallmark.
I expected it to have internal contradictions because it talks about history, natural Phenomena,
talks about the prophecies in the future, and somehow it's somehow free from all these
mistakes.
I mean it predicts between two superpowers. What's going happen to them?
One of them is defeated, but it says within three to seven years or nine years, they're
going to be victorious again, and this happens in history.
How does one make...
How does one make this kind of prediction?
Because it is not something that, you know, you can think about it because
when you have two super powers and so on and so forth.
Or thinking about, like
imagine I said: You will never be able to remember my name, Mansur.
Okay, he knows my name, you know my name.
She will remind you every time.
But if I made a claim, you will never remember my name.
Even if she asks what is my name... you'd say something has to be physically done to
my brain cells for me not to know, right?
If no one influences me, I would know I write it down.
I will say it. I will record it. I will ask my friends to remind me. There's no way...
But if I make a prediction like this and this happens in your life until you live for another 100
years or something or 80 years, right? And...
You'll never able to recall my name. You will say.
She will say something is strange here. Why is it that?
What's preventing me from recalling this name according to he said?
You know, he has some extraordinary ability or unknown information from the unseen.
The Quran talks about many things.
One example is a particular individual called, his nickname is Abu Lahab.
There's a chapter in Quran, says he will, as well as his wife, because of the arrogant disbelief,
they will go to Hellfire, they'll be carriers of firewood of Hell and so on.
This man lived for more than ten years after this particular revelation was given.
He could have easily come out, without believing, you see, you don't need to believe,
and you could come to the people and say:
I declare that there is no God worthy of worship except the one and only true God.
And I declare you Muhammed, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you are the messenger of God.
Then he becomes a Muslim.
He goes to paradise because of God's promise is guaranteed. Because of... If you become a Muslim
and then you die in that day. Islam would have been dismantled.
Then and there. Ten years!
He remains an enemy of Islam. Even as a hypocrite, something outwardly he is saying 'I am a Muslim.'
He didn't say that. So, that shows you some, you know, information of the unknown is known to
this individual giving the revelation.
So this is just one or two example,
saying; how we can be sure the Quran is indeed from God. Because any Tom, Dick and Harry can come along and say:
You know what, this book is from God, that book is from God.
This is the Quran, by the way. Right?
Yeah. So,
if we cannot verify and scrutinize it. Joseph Smith wrote
the Book of Mormons, right? Are we going to just believe in it, just because he
claims to have got it from the angels and so on and so forth. You can look at it.
You can trace the plagiarism from the Old Testament.
King James Version and various other things, and you can look at the contradictions and
mistakes and discrepancies because of human being trying to acclaim revelation.
Any book like this which claims to be from God, you can analyse it.
The Quran actually invites people to ponder it deeply and see if they can find a contradiction
within it or a mistake within it.
So that's why we say when we talk about the Quran is from God, it provides its own evidence.
Positive evidence as well as falsification test to falsify it, making it easy for anyone
saying; okay fine, is there anything in a falsification test that I can apply?
And then if it doesn't stand the test, then I know for sure it is not from God.
Imagine this book says: You know what,
if you find something within it which says God is saying that Jesus is not a messenger,
I'm just making this up, right? And you find it there.
Then you know where you got to find it...
Interestingly, when the Quran says, if they ponder on the Quran with care.
If it wasn't from God, they would find many... many contradictions.
The word... the word that is used is 'Ikhtilaf' in Arabic,
meaning discrepancies, right? You can ignore the hecklers.
So when we... Look at this... In deep pondering. One can say:
But there is another word called 'Ikhtilaf' in the Quran.
And the Quran says... Think about it literally. You will not find more than one...
You would not find...
Just come this side. They are not interested. Thank you.
He is a heckler. He is gonna take away the conversation.
Okay, I'm gonna continue speaking to you if you don't mind. Right? It is okay.
Can I continue? Alright. So, when the Quran says... See how he is gonna overtake the conversation.
How rudely... So, when the Quran says if it wasn't from God, you would not find more than one... 'Ikhtilaf'
You would not find many Ikhtilaf...
So you can say...
You can say...
There is another word called 'Ikhtilaf' and the Quran says you will not find more than one 'Ikhtilaf.'
Guess what? That word form, that particular word form, 'Ikhtilafan', only occurs once in the Quran.
So even someone who thinks they are smart and said: "Look,
but I found another word called 'Ikhtilaf.' So, the Quran is false." They cannot do that.
It's like this example.
The Quran talks about the fate of a disbeliever in which when in the Hellfire, we believe
disbelievers who are arrogant, they deserve to go to Hellfire. When they're in Hellfire,
when they're punished with the fire,
God says; as often as their skin is roasted through,
God will recreate...
You see how irrelevant... Sorry to interrupt.
I mean look, clearly I haven't read the Quran.
No, I'm giving an example to ponder.
Wait, I haven't read the Quran. So, I don't know if it has contradictions or not.
You need to...
Do you prefer to invite a clown like him?
Do you want to see the Youtube videos of this clown?
I think you have taught us a lot.
Can I finish this example? No, no. We will make this last example.
What I'm saying is... What I am saying... We invite you to...
Absolutely, this is the introduction, but the point I was making is this. About this
hellfire punishment upon the skin. A clever, smart... thinks...
You know what? When we are gonna be punished in Hellfire,
and our skins are burned through,
We will no longer feel pain anymore.
Do you know why? Do you know why? You know why? Because these smart individuals in their so-called
smartness. They think
When the skins are burnt, we are talking about really third degree burn.
Do you know what happens? The... Do you mind allowing me to finish?
You are interrupting very rudely. Like a very uncivilized person, like a clown.
Do you know know the pain... Brother, brother...
Do you know the pain receptors are on the skin? It is okay.
So, when the skins are burnt properly,
even if you were to put a needle through and it comes other way,
you would not feel pain.
That is when the skin is totally burnt.
But if the Quran says; but he will be feeling pain in the Hellfire
Then they will say: Look, we have outsmart God even if we are in Hellfire, we are not feeling any pain.
But do you know that the Quran says?
The Quran says as often as their skin is roasted through, God will recreate...
And again like this is a cycle.
Now we know why. Because new skin, new nerve ending. New pain receptors.
They will constantly feel the pain.
So, I will finish with this.
This is for you. Free.
I imagine back in this time people's skin is burnt, so it is not like a new insight.
It is not like a proof.
No, this is one example of where the Quran... No, what I'm saying...
The Quran could have simply made something which is not like that, but this is one example of many.
Because you don't have time, I'm not giving one after the other.
I'm giving an example to think about it.
When there are mistakes in the previous revelations, mistakes, for example, how the human embryo...
human beings created by the menstrual blood as it says in the Bible.
For example, in the Old Testament. The Quran doesn't copy those mistake, right?
The Quran, the Quran doesn't copy those mistakes. If you are willing to talk about it. We can.
But because you have to go, go and reflect and think about it.
But this is what we're saying.
The salvation of every individual lies, you know, one thing, to worshipping God alone.
Without ascribing a partner to God, whether it be a son of God or a daughter of God or
a wife of God whatever. Worshipping God alone and accepting the final messenger that God
has sent because through them you will be fulfilling the will of God.
The final messenger is Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Prophet Muhammad from Arabia, who brought
the Quran and has established through proof and evidence, he is a prophet of God.
This is the book of God by evidence. So, your role,
our role would be to confirm that this is the case.
Take care. You take care.
How much is it? How much are you paying each other?
1000s. 1000s.