We're going to die and we're going to leave this life.
So we have to ask the questions;
how we got here, what is our purpose in life, why we have to die.
And these questions, no one has answered in details.
Who is a true God according to Jesus (A.S)?
Jesus healed him,
He is God, He has claimed to be God.
Of the people, in order for you and I
to know which one is the message of the most High,
Which one is a fake one, for example, the true messages of God that come
with the prophecies, that come with the miracles, they come with the same
teachings, even though they never met each other.
For example, let me give you example quick one;
One of the prophecies that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) mentioned,
they said there will come a time, when he mentioned about some type of people
and a person who make up a lie in the morning.
In the same morning, his lies will reach Far East, far west.
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) existed 1400 years ago.
That was impossible to happen for someone to make up a lie
And his lie will reach far east,
far west in the same morning, you know, because back in those days
to travel from London to Cardiff would take us three days, let alone for my life.
OK, now how do we verify this speech of prophet Muhammed (pbuh) if it's true or not,
yes, in our time, make up a lie, put in Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter.
it'll go everywhere.
So how a man that lived 1400 years ago, prophesied about something that we can observe?
You know why?
Because he said that the knowledge that he has is from the Creator
and that we are here for a purpose and this life is a test.
And one day we're going to die and we will
return to our Creator to judge us according to our actions, you know?
Have you been Morocco? [No]
OK, if you go to Morocco, what would you do first before going there?
Check which currency they use.
You're going to check that, basically do your homework.
You're going to check if it is a safe country, currency they use.
So you will not say when I get there, I'll come to know.
No, you do homework likewise we're going to die and we're going to leave this life.
So we have to ask the questions;
how we got here, what is our purpose in life, why we have to die?
And these questions, no one answered
in details like the prophets and messengers, especially in the Quran,
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), because he came with the last teaching.
He explained to us how we got here, what our purpose of life is,
why we have to die.
Have you asked these questions to self before? [Yeah]
Of course, No doubt,
You know you why you have to ask these questions?
Because you have something called in Arabic al fitrah, fitrah means natural inclination.
Naturally you to asking about the big questions;
Why am I here?
What is my purpose?
I'm not just here to eat and drink and go
clubbing and smoke or do.... or I'm here for greater wisdom.
So when these questions come to you
because you have called natural inclination
likewise you sound reasoning by those questions.
As I've said, science cannot answer it,
Where it is in the Quran, the Quran says we have created you
One of the reasons, the wisdom behind it
for purpose is to worship the Creator likewise as a test,
Likewise for the Creator... implement His name,
attributes: attributes of mercy, of love, of anger, of justice, of wisdom,
of Highness, you know, likewise to recognize one another.
Is that clear what I said so far?
You know, let me give you an example, by the way,
first, before I give you example, do you believe there is a Creator?
Yeah.
OK, so now if I give you two million pounds as a gift, I say, you know what?
I'm having a conversation with you.
I'm a billionaire.
don't ask me why I'm a billionaire. I have too much money.
I want to give it away.
I will give you two million pounds as a gift.
What would you say to me at least?
Thank you very much.
Would you remember me all the time?
Probably?
Of course, two million pounds, you know, you can have a nice car.
You are gonna remember Shamsi... Nice house, shamsi...
Now I would give you two million pound on the condition;
Give me your two eyes..
No, no.
You see, you know why?
Because your eyes is more valuable than two million pounds.
So why are we not grateful to the One that gave us eyes for free?
They see... you like that.
OK, now that's why Islam based upon the two Testimonies;
I should worship, should be grateful, should be thankful to my Creator.
The second question I would ask you,
if you want to buy a gift to someone that you love, for example,
your mother, your father, would you buy a gift that your love or your mother love?
Your mother love..
Likewise, if we want to worship the Creator,
we should worship Him the way He loves not the way we love.
because the way He loves is objective.
The way we love is subjective.
That's why He sent Jesus, Moses, Abraham,
Noah, Jacob, Ishmael, Isaac, Daniel, Jeremiah.
The last of them is a Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) to teach us about our purpose of life.
When you notice the teaching of prophet Mohammed (pbuh),
you can see clearly this man must be the messenger of the most high.
I'll give you another prophecy, he said,
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, there will come a time
when the interest, you know, interest, usury, interest will become widespread,
Even if you are not involved directly
affects you, even if you are not involved directly with interest will affect you.
And this is what's happening in our time.
Lots of us... in 2009, credit crunch. The reason?
Because interest affects everyone.
How a man lived 1400 years ago knew about
something that we could observe and we can see right now? Because for you and I
to know, this man must be a messenger of the Creator.
And if he's a messenger of the Creator, it's better for you to follow him.
Otherwise, we'll be the losers. is that clear?
You see, so I can give you another one;
why Islam is true.
Why islam is true because Islam goes in line with our universal knowledge,
our common sense, you know, universal knowledge; universal knowledge...
Naturally, you know that you should worship one God, there is one Creator.
Naturally, you know that for something to come into existence must have a creator.
Naturally, you know that oppression is wrong, you see.
So with Allah, sent the messengers, especially Islam, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh),
He said sent him with the legislation that goes in line with that worship one God,
believe all the prophets and messengers, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Jacob, Isaac,
all of them, because all of them came to us to worship one God.
And when we die, Islam speaks about that in details.
We believe there is a life of the grave.
We don't know how, something is unseen.
And there is a day of judgment when the Creator bring everyone back to life
to judge according to the actions
and the biggest crime against God when you turned away from God,
or you worship Him in a way He doesn't want to worship Him.
And we believe in Islam that if someone dies without Islam
being explained to him, God will not punish him on the day of Judgment.
However, if Islam was explained to someone, if he or she turns away from it,
then if he dies or she dies upon this belief rejecting the Creator or not
worshiping Him the way He wants, then don't blame no one except ourselves.
So that's what we're here for.
That's why I invite to Islam to worship the Creator, to worship God who gave you life,
Who gave you eyes and who.... no doubt all of us here,
we want to have a relationship with our creator,
we want to be grateful to Him, want to be thankful to Him.
So it is your chance here if you want to accept Islam,
I am inviting you to Islam, if you have any questions about Islam,
feel free, don't worry to ask any question you want,
as long as you don't ask me about my age...
I'm joking. But ask anything, please. Anything... ask,
I think.... Yeah,....
Does that make sense what I said?
Yeah???
OK, if I ask you what stops you to become Muslim?
I think I'm a Christian.
OK,
I would like so much that you said like
we have this, like, yearning to know God within us,
and we need to worship God.
Sorry to cut you because you said you're Christian now,
Christianity, OK,
We look into Christianity, firstly, was Jesus Christian? Jesus was not Christian.
Jesus never worshiped himself God, Jesus used to pray to God, OK ,
Jesus used to prostrate when he prayed to God, OK, who does that?
The Muslims. OK.
When we looked at the teachings of Jesus, Moses Abraham, Jesus was circumcised.
Who does that? The Muslims, Jews do that as well.
OK.
However, when you see the Christians, the Christians in our time,
even after Jesus, they were affected heavily by the pagan Romans.
You see, because if you notice
Constantine that the leader he adopts Christianity as a faith of the state,
OK.
However, he himself manipulated the teachings of Jesus, you know?
So when you say I'm a Christian, Christianity, with respect,
Christianity doesn't go in line with our belief, with our universal knowledge.
God became a baby that doesn't make any sense.
I think it makes perfect sense.
OK,
God is like three persons...
like God the son came down [as a baby]
yeah to baby, to be sacrificed for the sins of the people.
OK, ask you if is God perfect all the time? [Yeah].
God is perfect all the times, all the times?
when he became a baby, was he perfect?
We not told the exact details of his childhood, but yes,
no, he wasn't, because we know in the Bible Mary breastfed him,
there's no self sufficient God. God is self sufficient all the times.
God is not in need of His creations all the time.
But we can see in the Bible,
God who became a babe, who's in need of someone to change him and to feed him.
That's what the nature of the most High;
that go and guess with you know our universal knowledge..
That's why if you noticed, I told you there's a universal knowledge.
What is universal knowledge?
You don't have to be a Christian or a Muslim or atheist to know.
It's natural to you know, it's illogical, impossible for something to be
perfect all the times and imperfect same time..
Likewise, it is irrational to say God become a baby.
You know why?
Because by definition God is not a human being.
By definition, a human being is God, to say God became a baby..
That is a paradox which doesn't make any sense and doesn't exist in outside reality.
That's why, Allah says in the Quran, stop saying man is a God or God is a three.
There's only one God that has no partner,
and there's nothing like one to Him.
He's the all-hearing and all-seeing..
So when you look to Jesus.....
I make clear to you who who is a true God according to Jesus,
who is a true God according to Jesus?
I think like... when Jesus... he's healing [the blind man] Paralyzed man...
friends of this guy let him down through the Roof of a House...
Jesus said to the man.. “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
And then the people were around him say, no can forgive sin except God alone.
And Jesus said, Yeah, you're right. No one can forgive sin except God alone.
Like the implication being that he is God
and then he said, so you know that
I have the authority to forgive sins, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’
And this guy got up and took his mat.
Jesus healed him because he is God and he has claimed to be god.
OK. Does God need authority from anyone else?
[No], But Jesus said authority was given to him.
[Yeah] he cannot God.
He has authority to forgive sins.
No, no. Prophet Mohammed said who......?
OK, who enters people to paradise?
God.
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said to his companions, you'll be in paradise.
You'll be a paradise that doesn't mean he is God.
What it means that he's saying what God tells him.
So Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), a man came to him,
He said your sins before are forgiven.
That's doesn't mean prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is God
meaning that Prophet Muhammad, Jesus, Moses,
all of them speak with authority on behalf of God because out of messages of God.
But before we move on, I ask you a question.
You haven't yet answered.. with respect yeah...
Who is the true God according to Jesus?
Both... God, the father and himself..
No, Jesus said the only true God,
Jesus said that the only true God is the father.
He never said him.
he but so by forgiving that guy's sins and saying only God can forgive sins
and also saying he is forgiving sins... saying I am God.
But he said the only true god....
Okay.. Jesus said the only true God is
the Father, not the Holy Spirit, nor the son that clearly he cannot be
the same God who you claim because I give another one.
Does God know everything all the time?
So yes but sometimes he voluntarily like limits his power
when he came down to earth as a man. So.....
So he limits power [yeah], that's contradiction though...
He like voluntarily limits his power some other time.
But it's a contradiction.
No, it is not...
I'll tell you why, is God all-powerful for all the times?
Yes, but sometimes he chooses to limit that power while he is in a human-form.
But that God guess all the times? If you tell me
I'm perfect all the times, then I say, I choose to make mistakes.
That's contradiction , because by definition,
if you say all the times it's perfect, you are negated to be imperfect any times.
So if you say I'm perfect all the times
that you said willingly I became imperfect, that's contradiction.
You ask yourself so you can say you are.. because meaning that's what we said.
God has not begin to end. He is perfect all the times;
today, yesterday and the future, after the creation all the times.
So that's why look what you do in all respects.
You are struggling
because you believe in something in a book goes againt your universal knowledge.
So what are you doing?
You try to fight against universal knowledge
Who's the creator has given you to believe in a book that we don't know wrote.
That's why you're doing seriously.
You know, John, Mark, Luke, Matthew is a different subject.
They wrote things about jesus things about Jesus,
which we don't know if Jesus said or not, you know?
Jesus wasn't even christ's name...
Yeah, that's true.
My point is, look, my point is
my point is that when you look at Jesus'
teaching, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Jacob, all of them called to worship one God,
Never Moses or Abraham or Jacob or Daniel said,
believe there's three God, three in one.
None of them said that....
So do you understand that? That's why when you..
what distinguishes Islam from any religion or any way of life or any idea,
Islam goes in line with our universal knowledge.
who give us a universal knowledge? The Creator.
So the Creator... to make it clear, Imagine... I make a phone,
or no one made a phone before me?
And you find the phone and I say, I made it.
You say OK, Shamsi you made it? I said yeah...
I said, take the Manuel and you follow it.
Will you take the Manuel
The guideline, clearly the guideline doesn't go in line with the phone...
You're going to come back and says Shamsi..
you haven't made it, then you come to Mohammed
and Mohammed gives you a guideline which got in line with a phone.
And if you got a minute, he made it, you see,
When you look to the teacher Islam, it goes in line with our universal knowledge.
But would you do for the other books
which claimed to be from God doesn't go in the line with our universal knowledge,
Go and guess it.... But God is the most wise.
He will not create with something then said something clearly go against it.
Rather He creates something like a Wi-Fi and the router
connect, you see, do you agree with that? You see....
Islam, universal knowledge goes in line with the Quran.
God is perfect, shows prophets and messengers,
He sent them, Nor He became a baby and so on... you see...
I have a question....
No... I spoke to you before. We're not interested...
What do you think so far?
I think... there are lots of ...
think about it, try to think about it. Study it...
Read it. Because, you know,
all the prophets and messengers...
let me give you one example, that Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)...
he was not anti Christ, so I proved that you, Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was in Medina.
Medina is a place where he migrated.
He was defending Jesus,
even though he was he was not getting nothing from its meaning in Medina...
If He was a false prophet,
he would have agreed with the Israelites
who said Jesus was a bastard, (I take refuge in God from evil)
an evil man or he was not a true messiah.
If it was a false prophet, he would have agreed with them to gain more followers.
But what he did?, he said, no, Jesus was a true messiah.
He was born without a father.
His mother was a truthful woman.
Why he's going to defend someone in a city who there's no need for him to defend
Rather, by defending the man, he's going to lose more followers,
not to gain more followers, because to show your Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)
doesn't speak from his own desire,
He speaks from the revelations.
Allah will send him to defend this man
Because the prophet of Mine like you are prophet of Mine
and both you defend each other.
See that?
Makes sense?
Sorry I can't handshake with you.
As a Muslim I clarify that
We as Muslims, we are not allowed to touch women's hands, even for Muslims,
because as long as if she is our family, we are allowed to touch her
But non-relatives.. you said..
Because some people, they think if she is muslim, you are allowed to touch her....
Even if she's a Muslim,
if she's not my relative, I'm not allowed to touch her.
That made a lot of sense...
Do you have something to give it to her...
I have nothing, but hopefully
Thank you very much...
Do you have Quran...
Give me one...I want to give you a gift,
I spoke to him before...
He's just going to shout.....
Whatis the name of Daniel?
It's Allah.
Allah Means God. It doesn't mean that...
You just made a mistake.
you just make made a mistake, that's that's because you made a mistake instead
of saying let me take it back, you keep agruing...
How many God are there...
You said Alalh means God...
which translation...
It is a gift for you... Thank you so much...