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PURPOSE OF LIFE 2
By: Khalid Yasin


Lets go to the second half of our topic. What do you know about Islam? Not, what you heard about Islam. Not what you have seen in the actions of Muslims. Because there is a difference between Islam and Muslims. There is a difference between a man and a father. A man who has children. He is a father but father is a responsibility. If a man does not fulfill those responsibilities, he is not necessarily a good father. Islam is a rule and an order. If a Muslim does not fulfill these rules and orders he is not a good Muslim. So you cannot compare Islam by Muslims. We hear the term Islam and Muslims quite often. And we read about Islam and Muslims in the periodical ****books of colleges and universities. We hear and we see a lot of inaccurate, misleading and purposeful misinformation through the media. And I have to admit that some of this misinformation and misrepresentation has been perpetuated by Muslims themselves. Yet, one out of every five in this world of some five billion people is a Muslim. One out of five people in this world is a Muslim. This is a statistic that you can verify in the encyclopedia or the Almanac or any other sources that you’d like to look at. How is it that if one out of five in this world is a Muslim, that we don’t know something about Islam ? The facts about Islam. If I told you that one out of five people in this world were Chinese which is a fact, there is one billion Chinese in the world, one out of five people is Chinese. But we know the geographical, the social, the economical, the political, the philosophical, the historical. Factors about China and the Chinese. How come we don’t know about Islam?

What is it that joins 29 nations and some say 37 nations? What is that joins these nations and this universal configuration into a common fraternity? What makes a brother in Saudi Arabia my brother and I’m from America? And makes this brother from Pakistan my brother? And makes another brother from Indonesia my brother? And from Africa my brother? And another one from Thailand my brother? And from China, and from Spain, and from Russia, and so forth? What makes them my brother? We have different culture, psychological backgrounds. What is it about Islam that automatically embraces us and joins us together as a brotherhood? What are the accurate characteristics of this misunderstood way of life? That is followed by the great part of humanity. I will try to provide you with some facts but in addition to this as I mentioned to you before, it is necessary for you to be open-minded and open-hearted because if I turn the glass upside down and poured water on it, I would never get a glass of water. It has to be the right side up. Facts alone do not lead to understanding, but rather a combination of tolerance, ambition and the ability to appreciate and accept the truth when you hear it. The word Islam means ‘Surrender, Submission & Obedience’. Surrender, submission and obedience to the law of the Almighty God. You can say Allah. You can say the Creator. You can say the Supreme God. The Supreme Force. The All-Wise. All those are His names. We say Allah because in Arabic there is no other expression. This expression Allah cannot be applied to any created thing. Other words that we use for Almighty, people apply to created things. The almighty dollar. O I love my wife she is top. Or he is the greatest. No. No. No. No. But the word Allah can only be applied to the one Who has created all of this that we have previously described. So from this point, I’m going to use the word Allah and you know whom I’m speaking about. The word Islam is derived from the root ‘Salamat’. It means to be at peace or to have security. Therefore a Muslim is a person that surrenders, submits and obeys to the law of the Almighty God and through this submission obtains peace and security for themselves. We can immediately see that by subsist definition that the Arabic word Islam describes the same and behavior of all the well-known and respected Prophets and messengers of Almighty God. All of them. Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, John the Baptist, Sulayman, Jesus the son of Mary, and Muhammad may Allah’s peace be upon him and all of them. All of these men, these prophets and messengers, came from the same Almighty God , with the same message, with the same chain of transmission and they said one thing. Obey God. Worship Almighty God and fulfill the purpose of life and do good actions and you would be rewarded with another life. That’s all they said. Don’t make it more than that. That’s all they said. Regardless of what language and what time, whom they came to, that’s all they said. If you read the scriptures carefully without your own interpretation or somebody else’s addition or fabrication you would find that this was the simple message of all those prophets who confirmed one another. Not one of those prophets ever said I am God, worship me. You don’t have to think because you won’t find in any book that you have. Not the bible, not the torah. Not the old or the New Testament, not the songs of David. You would not find it in any book. You would not find it from the speech of any prophet. Go home tonight and palm through all the pages of your bible and I guarantee you , you will not find it once anywhere. So where does this come from. That’s something else that you have to investigate. And in another setting, we can set that straight very easily for you. History has a way of turning over every stone. We can immediately see that by such a definition the Arabic word describes what all the prophets did. They all came and submitted themselves to God. Surrendered themselves to God. Call the people to God, and asked the people, and insisted upon the people to do deeds of righteousness. The ten commandments of Moses, what was that? The speech of Abraham, what was that? The Songs of David, what was that? The proverbs of Solomon, what did he say? The Gospel of Jesus Christ, what did he say? What did John the Baptist say? What did Isaac and Ishmael say? What did Muhammad (peace be upon him) what did he say? Nothing more than that.

Allah says:

And they were ordered nothing except to worship Allah, be sincere towards him, and this was the straight way.


This was the original message. By the same token, it would also be appropriate here to consider those prophets and messengers as Muslims, because Muslims is what? Don’t think about the Arabic terminology, don’t think about how we are dressed, Don’t think about Mecca or Saudi Arabia or Egypt or No..Think about the word Muslim means he who surrenders himself to Almighty God and obeys the laws of Almighty God. In that case, whether naturally or in a dialectical manner. Everything that surrender to the law of Almighty God is a Muslim. So when a child comes out of the womb of its mother at the time that God has ordered, what is it? It’s a Muslim. When the sun goes around in its orbit, what is it? It’s a Muslim. When the moon goes around the sun, what is it? It’s a Muslim. The law of gravity, what is it? It’s a Muslim law. Everything that submits to Almighty God is a Muslim. Therefore, when we willfully obey Almighty God, we are Muslims. Jesus Christ was a Muslim. His mother, his blessed mother was a Muslim. Abraham was a Muslim. Moses was a Muslim. All the prophets were Muslims. But they came to their people, and spoke different languages. The Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu aleihe wa salam) spoke the language of Arabic. And so in the Arabic language, submit and surrender is Muslim. The one who submits and surrenders is Muslim. Every Prophet and messenger of Almighty God brought the very message and fundamental message. Worship Almighty God and be sincere towards Him. If we examine the message of each of the well-known prophets, we could easily conclude this fact. Where there is a conflict, it is a result of false assertions, fabrications, exaggerations, personalized interpretations, of alleged writers, historians, scholars and individuals. For instance, let me point something out for you that may be you haven’t looked at. As a Christian I looked at it before I became a Muslim and I didn’t understand it. How come throughout the old Testament God is always referred to as one. The Master, and Lord, and King of the Universe. And that in the first commandment given to Moses, He didn’t allow anybody to worship any engraved images or to bow down to anything in the heavens or the earths or the sea below, He never allowed that. All the Prophets said that He was one and that He was the Almighty God. Throughout the old Testament this is completely repeated in all the places. Then all of a sudden, we got four testimonies. The four Gospels called Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Matthew who? Mark who? Luke who? John who? Four different gospels have been written 48 years apart, and none of these men who did not collaborate with each other. None of them wrote their last name. If I gave you a cheque for your pay this month, and I wrote my first name on the cheque and told you to take it to the bank would you accept that cheque? No, you wouldn’t. If the policeman stops you with your iqamah and you only had your first name, is that acceptable to him? Could you get a passport with your first name? Did your mother and father only give you one name? Where in the history of man, is one name accepted as a ********ation, where? No where, except in the bible. And how could you base your faith upon four Gospels that are written by four men that didn’t seem to know their last name. Then after those four gospels there are fifteen more books written by a man who is an apostee, who killed Christians, tortured Christians, and then said that he in a vision saw Jesus and he was commissioned as an apostle of Jesus. If I told you that Hitler after he killed all the Jews , then he himself decided that he wants to be saved, and he met Christ or Moses or ( Natoh 32-12 ), and he became a Jew, and he wrote 15 books, and added them to the Torah, would this be acceptable to the Jews? No, you wouldn’t accept that. So, how can four books without a last name, and fifteen other books written by another man, and this is the first time that God is called a man, and the first time that God is called three, and the first time God is given a son, how is this acceptable to Christians, how? Think about it, we won’t argue that point, I’ll just give you something to think about. The advent of Prophet Muhammad May Allah’s peace be upon him, did not bring a new religion or a way of life, as some people erroneously claim. On the contrary the Prophet (May Allah’s peace be upon him) confirmed the light and the message of all the previous prophets and messengers, both through his personal conduct, and through the divine revelation that he received from the Almighty. The Sacred scripture that Muhammad (May Allah’s peace be upon him) brought is called al Quran. This is what you heard Al Quran. It means that which is recited, because Muhammad (May Allah’s peace be upon him) he did not write the Quran. He did not author the Quran. Nobody came and helped him to write the Quran or to author the Quran and nobody collaborated with him in this. What the angel Gabriel recited to him and Almighty God made his heart a receptacle of that. Just like the satellite disc is a receptive of waves and gives you the TV image. The Prophet Muhammad’s (May Allah’s peace be upon him) heart was a receptacle of revelations and we have this Quran that has been reserved for 15 centuries without a change of a dot. Is there any other book in the world that you know of that have been reserved as it was revealed without the changing even of a dot. No book. Only the Quran. Don’t take my word for it. Go to the library and read the Encyclopedia of Britannica or the World Encyclopedia or the Americanas Encyclopedia or any other universal Encyclopedia of the world that is not written by Muslims, read what it says about Islam, the Quran and Muhammad (salla Allahu aleihe wa salam). Read what non Muslims said about the Quran, Islam and Muhammad (peace be upon him). Then you will accept that what I am saying is universally ********ed and clear. That Muhammad (May Allah’s peace be upon him) is the most profound individual in the history of humanity. Profound, why? Read what they say. That the Quran is the most incredible the most profound piece of literature in the (? 35-13) of history. Read what they say. That the Islamic way of life is categorized in so precise and dynamic, it has never changed. Read what they say. The Sacred scripture that Muhammad (salla Allahu aleihe wa salam) received is called the Quran. And each of the Prophets and messengers they also received a scripture, and in the Quran, these prophets, their scriptures, their stories, the principle of their mission is mentioned with profound detail. Did Muhammad (may Allah’s peace be upon him) , did he meet them, and eat with them, and talk with them, and collaborate with them, to write their biographies, no of course he didn’t. In the Quran, Muhammad (sallah Allahu aleihe wa salam) is referred to as the messenger of Almighty God and the Seal of the Previous Prophets, which is the limit of his role as a human being. Muslims do not worship Muhammad. We are not Mohammedans. We have not the right to take the name of Muhammad, and say we are Mohammedans. Nor were the people who have followed Moses, they were not Moseans. The people who followed Jacob were not Jacobites. Or the people who followed Abraham, were not Abrahameans or divinians. No, no, no. So how the people call themselves Christians? Christ did not call himself a Christian. How do the people call themselves Chrisitans? Christ says that whatever he received from Almighty God was the order of God, what he heard is what he said, that’s what he did. So how do we call ourselves Christians? We have to be Christ-like, and what was Christ like? He was a servant of Almighty God, so you should be servants of Almighty God. That’s all. As the final scripture and divine revelation the Quran makes a very clear and concise statement.



This day have I perfected your religion and completed my favor upon you, and chosen Islam as a complete way of life.



So through the Quran the word Islam came. As a word, Islam, it came in the Quran. Because, when the building is complete you call it a house. When the car is on the assembly line it is not an automobile, it is in the process of assembly. When it has been completed, it has been certified, it has been test-driven, it is now an automobile. When Islam was completed as a revelation, as a book, as an example through the Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu aleihe wa salam) it then became Islam. It became a complete way of life. Deen-ul Islam. So, it was the word that was new, but not the practice, not the prophets, not the order from God, not a new God, not a new revelation, but only the name, Islam. And as we said previously, what were all the prophets? They were all Muslims. Another distinction to keep in mind is that Muhammad (peace be upon him) unlike his predecessors, he did not come to the Arabs, or to his own people, exclusively. No. Therefore, Islam is not a religion of the Arabs. It is not for the Arabs. Yet, Muhammad the son of Abdullah (peace be upon him) he was born in Makkah. A city in the Arabian peninsula and certainly he was an Arab by birth. Consequences of his birth; choice of the Almighty. Additionally, the Quran was revealed in the Arabic language. To protect it, to make it pure and clear and precise. Yet the Quran dispels any inclinations or assertions that the methods of Muhammad was limited or meant for the Arabs exclusively. Allah , He says:


That you have not been sent O Muhammad (May Allah’s peace be upon you) except to the whole of humanity as a warner. As a one giving, bringing glad tidings. And most of the human beings they simply don’t know.



As such Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the finality and crown of the great prophets and messengers before him. And since we are making reference to the Quran to support our presentation, we should give some background information on the Quran itself. First of all, the Quran makes the claim that it is the product of divine revelation. That is, it was sent down from the Almighty God to Muhammad through inspiration. Allah says:


That Muhammad, he is not speaking from himself his own ideas, or his own ambitions, or his own emotions and feelings. No. What this is , a revelation the Quran which is being revealed to him
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This is the statement of Allah.

Therefore, if we are to convince you or anyone else of the authenticity of the Quran we must prove one, that it was impossible for Muhammad to manufacture such a book (peace be upon him). Secondly, we must prove that it was equally impossible for any human agency to have created it. Let us think about this. I ask you, the Quran makes the statement :



And we created the human beings from a hanging clot that was clinging to the wall of the womb.




How did the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), how did he know that the embryo started out as a clot hanging and clinging to the wall of the uterus of the mother? Did he have a telescope? Did he have a cyst scope? Did he have some kind of X-Ray vision? How did he receive this knowledge when it was just discovered 47 years ago? How did he know that the oceans have a barrier between them to separate the salt and the fresh water? How did he know that? How did he know that the sun and the moon and the planets are all swimming in an orbit that has been ordered for them? How did he know that? And on, and on , and on how did he know that? When these things have just been discovered 25 or 30 years ago? Technology and science, the sophistication in which you and I well know, have just discovered these things. How did Muhammad (peace be upon him) 15 hundred years ago , an uneducated shepherd , a man raised in the desert, a man who was uneducated could not read or write , how could he say something like this? How could he produce something like this? And how could anyone else living with him before and after produce something that has just been discovered recently? Impossible. How could a man who never left the Arabian Peninsula, a man who never sailed on a ship, who live 15 centuries ago, make such clear and astounding descriptions that were recently discovered in this half of the twentieth century? Also, if this is not enough, let me mention to you, that the Quran has a hundred and fourteen chapters, over 6,000 verses, and there were hundreds of people in the time of the Prophet (salla Allahu aleihe wa salam) who memorized this book entirely. Was he some kind of genius? How did that happen? Did anybody memorize the gospel any of them? Did anybody memorize the Torah, the Psalms? The Old Testament? The New Testament? Nobody, not even the pope. But there are millions of Muslims today, there is one sitting here, who has memorized this entire book. This is the ambition of every Muslim. Not some, every. How many Christians have you ever met in your life that has memorized the bible? None. You have never met any Christian who has memorized the whole bible, because you’ve never met a Christian who even knew what was the whole bible. Because the Christians themselves have over 700 different denominations and there are approximately over 39 different versions of the bible , with different books and different verses. Different amount of verses, different amount of chapters. They don’t agree to that. So, how can they even memorize what they don’t agree about? These are just some facts about the Quran. And I’m not speaking in a condemning fashion. I’m a person who was a Christian!! A person who found out these things through my own investigation!! A person who is now sharing this information for you!! Over turning some rocks for you to look under!! And it’s up to you.


Finally, suppose I told you that this book has been universally preserved without the slightest alteration of any kind in 15 centuries. If all of this is true, what I am saying, If it is all true? Would you agree that this book is quite profound, and unique to say the least? Would you be honest enough to say that? Of course you would if you are honest. And you are. Within yourselves you have to come to that conclusion. Many other non-Muslims came to the same conclusion. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Weston Churchill. Many, many I could go on, and on, and on. They came to the same conclusion, whether they accepted Islam openly or not, they came to that conclusion. That there is no other literature in the world that is profound as the Quran, as a source of wisdom, and healing and direction.



to be continued
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