*Timestamps:* 00:00 - Introduction 00:42 - Background of Dr. Sueidi 01:46 - Today's Topic: Embracing Islam 04:37 - The reality of the muslim ummah today 07:08 - How Islamic Theology is Studied 11:09 - Key disciplines in western religious studies 15:38 - Elements of Western Religious Studies 18:30 - How can muslims benefit from western religious studies? 23:50 - Issues with the beliefs of the Pope 25:18 - Problems with religious studies in the west 35:14 - Influences on the religious human being 38:16 - Guidance & misguidance in islamic theology 42:45 - Reasons for Guidance in the Qur'an 46:09 - Understanding theories in religious studies 48:00 - Lewis Rambo's theory of conversion 55:07 - Psychology of Persuasion 58:41 - The Story of Joram van Klaveren 1:00:32 - Understanding the psychology of persuasion 1:05:39 - Who converts to Islam in Sweden? 1:10:41 - What or Who influenced them? 1:12:47 - How much are they practicing Islam today? 1:14:34 - Do they feel happier after converting? 1:16:11 - Did they call others to Islam after conversion? 1:17:21 - Social Media Timeline 1:20:36 - Using A.I in Da'wah 1:23:58 - Reaching out with the message of Islam 1:28:22 - Exploring the sophistication in modern dawah 1:30:18 - Closing Remarks & Wrapping Up SubhanAllah ❤️💙💛 Brilliant Presentation 👍🏻👌🏻 _May Allah ﷻ bless you both and reward you for your efforts._ 🤲🏻
@@BloggingTheology hi I have been following ur channel from the starting... But now I have some doubts there r some people like Daniel Alan brubaker and the book The One and the Many: by François Déroche raising question on the preservation of Quran... I have seen Ali taie videos before but there is something that I am not satisfied I hope you help brother 🙏
would love to know how they became muslims, and what are the 2 or 3 points that made them study islam closer, brother Barryirlandi. I pray Allah protect you and grant you success in both worlds, and your family and all of us,
@@Valhalla0404 there are cases even in the 17th century even earlier from trading but they did not declare their new faith because it was punished by society even by church you will be surprised if only one take a deeper look!
My wife is ethnically Swedish and I’m a Somali men. We live in a beautiful time. Alhamdulilah. More and more Swedish and ethnically Europeans people are coming to the beautiful religion of Islam. Welcome my brothers and sisters❤
Not really, Islam is primarily growing through higher birth rates and mass immigration. Stop pretending the west is converting. We're not. The vaaaast majority of westerners don't want it here. Why do you think the west is leaning rightwing now?
@@malsh5608i watched more than one labanese who embraced islam ( and to be honest embracing islam in MENA region for families that have been in many generations Christians is difficult and most of them face family back lash , especially in Eygpt and Lebanon ) i would give 2 reasons , one is when they start interacting with muslims and understand islamic beliefs and streotypes about islam and muslims vanish And another one the availability of bible in Arabic and how alot of the stories in the bible ironically cotradict with what have been taught as christian beliefs and values ( like the racism , genocide , prophets commiting big sins like deceiving and ra pe and incest ) also the trinity is such a dilemma especially when it is confronted with Islamic strict monotheism And there is an issues that affect Christians of Egypt more than Lebanon ( since Christians of Lebanon are more leaning towards secularism ) it is the divorce issue In christianity and the bible the divorce is prohibited except for two situation , the partner converting to another religion and 2nd is adultry , otherwise if you go to a secular or islamic court to get divorced , and you happen to want to marry again then the church will not bless your marriage even if your husband mostly or wife abusing you ( and it's such a big problem for people who want to practice the bible ) , also i have noticed an increase in the abuse happening in church's
Very good presentation. I’m a clinical psychologist and work with a lot of Muslims (both cradle Muslims converts). There is nothing more appealing to me than to see how practicing Muslims keep God and faith at the center of their lives, especially during times of tremendous personal stress. For myself, that is compelling da’wah.
if you want to learn more about Islam, discuss, debate , I am your friend, Thanks to God I have solid knoweldge of Islam and good knoweldge of Christianity.. so please feel free to engage. I wish you the best dear Robert.
God should be remembered at all times, not only during the hard times when u are burdened. Read and be open minded, maybe god will guide u to the truth (if u are sincere).
Dear Robert just make the effort to learn more about Islam. Try reading the Qur'an and history of Prophet Muhammad pbuh. May Allah guide you to the truth.
I was born and raised a Muslim in Northern Nigeria and quite early in my life I watched and read a lot from sheikh Ahmad Deedat and it is quite easily understandable why I'm perpetually glued on to blogging theology on UA-cam. I would have always thought that some people are impervious to Islamic teachings and will never change . Eastern Nigeria on my mind and how so so wrong . People are moving into Islam in the Eastern Nigeria and we now have a chief imam of the national mosque from that region , allahu akbar. Daawah is very important I dare say so is our conduct . I've noticed however that people have become committed Muslims from incredibly unfathomable reasons , from empirical to metaphysical or spiritual reasons and a lot of times for inexplicable reasons . I've read and heard about people who have become Muslims never having met a single Muslim in their lives. I still hold that Islamic preachers are doing great job as spreading knowledge such as Paul Williams does on blogging theology. Having closely followed reasons advanced by a lot of reverts I can't help but to conclude that there may be 7 or 8 billion people in the world today and there are as much as 8 billion reasons to be Muslim if Allah azawajallah intends to reach everyone in the world . Allahu akbar
Myself, I've been going thru some change, some spiritual change. I have always been a devout hard core Catholic. I'm 58, and I'ce been having feelings of converting to Islam. I want to learn, I still must read the Koran but haven't yet, but I feel a pull towards learning Islam, wanting to be Islamic. God has always guided me, my faith, belief, morals, etc and I feel him urging me. I dont kbow what it is, but here I am. BTW, on another comment, I received so many people welcoming me, calling me sister, thank you ❤Peace to you. ❤
Beautifully articulated "quite early in my life, I watched and read a lot from Sheikh Ahmad Deedat, and it is quite easily understandable why I'm perpetually glued to blogging theology..." : so am I ; habitually glued to such channel and alike.
@@lindabishop1402 You may liaise with Imam of local mosque in your locality or reach out for Islamic Centre adjacent to your town. May Allah swt guides you to embrace Islam in coming days. Insyaa Allah.
Respectfully, what do you mean by "the natural disposition" ? I'm a simple Christian believer and I respect the strong discipline of Muslims regarding prayer and good deeds. But so far ( and I've been listening to Blogging Theology for over 2 years ) I don't feel a desire to follow Islam. I don't think I have a "hardness of the heart" regarding Islam. I don't feel God's guidance to become Muslim. I believe both reason and faith are important to understand God Himself. Through reason, we should be able to see the truth about God. Through God's revelation from the Gospels of the New Testament, we should be able to acknowledge the unique life of Jesus Christ as our Savior. Through faith, we should ask God for understanding and guidance regarding the meaning of life and how Jesus Christ Himself explained the meaning of life. To be honest, "growth" of the number of people in a religion means nothing to me. God doesn't look at numbers, but He looks at the heart. I could be wrong. No disrespect intended to you. I actually appreciate your comments.
@@johnbrzykcy3076 I think what that person's referring to is what God has planted to every human being in their soul and conscience. The belief in one God. In terms of religion, there's a reason why monotheistic religions are more popular than others even in our now advanced society. Islam is the one which really conserve the original message and balance it with practice even now, it is also open to anyone because in its creed it was sent for all humankind. As for yourself, what I would say is we don't know the future, you may or may not ever have the desire to convert your belief. Allah has already explained this aspect in the Quran. There would be people who reject the message one way or another. But in my perspective there is a reason why you've been watching Paul's channel for 2 years. Either because you're just curious or you try to find validation that Islam is not true compared to your belief or you're a student of theology. Either way, I'll say it's a fact that Islam is appealing to you in a broader term or you won't be here.
Your statement is generally true from a Fitrah perspective. But that would be a gross oversimplification for the growth of Islam. There are a multitude of reasons for the growth of Islam, from socio-cultural reasons like marriage to personal self-entitlement based reasons like new age ideologies popping up from time to time, like the recent "red pill movement" (of course that movement has nothing to do with submission to GOD's will) and finally appeal to the heart/qalb which leads to certainty in belief, not the previous two reasons. We do not idolize the structure of our Jamaah (a word with negative connotations in the Qur'an) like other religions. Yeah! "Alhamdulillah, you joined our community! Now you have the complete truth (as if Islam is not about reverting to the truth that already is).
Islam isn't only growing in The West,but also in the Middle East...Lebanese are amongst the most that are accepting Islam if we want to talk about Lebanon which was a Christian majority land.
Asalamalaikum 🇺🇸 This was super insightful, including the stats, regarding Islam and Muslims in Sweden and the west in general. Jazakallah khair, as always, Paul.
12:13 Not particularly Islamic scholar , but Dr. Abdul Rahman AlSubaidh(medical) spent 29 years of his life calling for Allah among African tribes. Nearly 10000 water wells, nearly 600 masjid,and nearly 900 schools established، above of all hundreds of thousands Africans embraced Islam by his efforts with the grace of Allah
Based on my own observation as a Lebanese living with Christians in Lebanon I believe that Islam is growing due to the comparison of the non-Muslims between their believe and the Muslim believe...Christianity here in Lebanon is becoming a number only,churches are abandoned and because Muslims are the only still practising believers of Islam they're indirectly making non-Muslims want to be part of this strong believe... We as Muslims live in harmony with the Christians in the Levantine..They even are invited to the fast break during Ramadan here in Lebanon and they are with us during (Sohuur)... The influence of Muslims over non-Muslims in The Middle East is affected by neighbour bond and cultural harmony.. Muslims still are practicing Islam even though some can be mistaken as Christians.
@muhammedsaleem3258 Maybe you should know that not only Lebanon was Christian but Syria,Palestine, Morroco,Tunisia,Algeria etc...We are Arabised Arabs ..Meaning we as "Levantine Canaanites" are originally Aramaic,Hebrews,Asyrians who learned and adopted to the Arabic language due to Islamic Arab influence and due to Ottoman Empire Conquest...We never left the Land,we simply became Arabs in Language and some of the Christian and Jews of the Levantine accepted Islam. Muslims are the ones that offered protection to the Jews of the Levantine and even to the European Jews during the Conquest of Spain...And it's Muslims that protected the oldest Jewish and Christian Churches in The Land of Canaan which today is known as Palestine Lebanon Syria Jordan Iraq...We've never had issues with the Jews or Christians in Lebanon Syria Jordan Palestine Iraq...but the Zios are the Western Colon that caused Bloodshed amongst us and they K the Indigenous Jews of the Levantine too...Forced the Muslims to become Chr...And forced the Christian to be Roman Sect Chr
You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it... Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism.... It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!! It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!! What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me? France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French... The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria. What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!? Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun? What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties? Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon? Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun?? Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it... Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism.... It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!! It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!! What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me? France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French... The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria. What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!? Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun? What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties? Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon? Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun?? Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
@muhammedsaleem You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it... Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism.... It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!! It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!! What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me? France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French... The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria. What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!? Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun? What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties? Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon? Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun?? Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
MashaAllah, i learned a lot about this discussion. Please keep going on this beautiful path , i think if i know my target by understanding things gets easy. But in the end, guidance comes only by The Almighty alone.. May Allah The All-Knowing guide us all to his path. Ameeeeeeen ❤
Sincerity is key . Even people who have been sincerely against Islam out of the true belief that they are serving God do ultimately get led back to Allah because of their good intentions and sincererity . Thank you brother
the irony is that the humble and sincere don t need guidance, its the arrogant and stubborn who are in need of guidance! but allah refuses to help them. and thus all the dictators tyrants crooks and corrupt politicians ruling over our lives.
Abdullah As-Sueidi, one of my favorite guests. I have nostalgic memories listening your podcast about AI while shoveling snow on my yard in Finland. ⛄️
I used to study in Sweden and it was the first time in my life living abroad as minority. I had a thought that I might taste "the Western life" that I watched in movies. I could not be so wrong since my time in Sweden was the most spiritual and religious I had experience. My innate tendency steered me to stay away from forbidden things (alhamdulillah) and I was more conscious in taking care of my daily prayer. Based on experience, I found it relatively more difficult to find prayer room in Western countries but it is more and more common in international places (i.e. campus, airport). To learn that Islam is growing in Sweden makes me happy 😃 in a sense that Muslim prayer spaces will be more common. Jag tycker om att bo i Sverige. Jag vill att kom tillbaka nästa tiden.
Abu Hurairah May Allah be pleased with him reported: (The Messenger of Allah said The uttering of the words Subhan-Allah , Alhamdulillah , There is no god but Allah and Allahu Akbar is dearer to me than anything over which the sun rises)
Thank you brothers for such an impressive and informative interview. The vast majority of the world population are in need to be reached out for the truth.
JzkmL Khairan Allaah SwTA Grant , through His Infinite Rahmah , that we all & all our children & progeny & family to the final generations , that we , each & all , Be Well Guided & Recorded & Confirmed by Allaah SwTA amongst The Best of His Servants in The Ultimate Roll Call of Jannatul Firdous Aameen 💖
Kul at se att vi Sverige också engagerar med sånt intellektuell content. Jag hoppas på att Islam presenteras och artikuleras av flera på svenska ännu mer. Jag har hört så många gånger att man ”tror på något högre makt” men inte vet vad det är. Särskilt här hemma. Fred vare med er 🤚
Always good discussions with a lot of knowledge, Alhamdulilah. As for the studying of Christian scripture to learn about Christianity instead of the Christian persons themselves, it makes sense for a few reasons. The biggest is that in Islam, we've been guided to take knowledge directly from God in the form of the Quran AlKareem and from the Quran, we're directed to the Sunnah. These are unchanging and timeless. Christians derive their religion not from the scripture(s) but from people leading an institution called the Church. They have a human hierarchy which varies from denomination to denomination. The pope, for ex, can dictate belief and law. In Judaism, its similar in that people, called Sages, can dictate belief and law. Even if these are contradictory to their scripture. These are ever changing from leader to leader and time to time. Another factor I think Muslim scholars should study is the history of other religions. Christian history explains a lot of where their beliefs come from, for example. Christians talk a lot about Jesus PBUH and believe they follow him when in reality, a majority of Christians do the opposite of what Jesus PBUH preached, even according to their scripture(s)! Rather, they follow the teachings of men like Constantine and Paul. I wish I knew more about Judaism, but it is a more esoteric subject it seems.
It’s interesting and encouraging that Dr Abdulla is citing Dr Robert Ciladini who is an eminent professor of Psychology & Marketing in the USA. One thing some of the so called ‘Dawa Boys’, seem to forget is, ‘it’s not just what you say, but it’s how you make the other person feel’, & at times, they put their own personal ego’s & petty point scoring ahead of sharing a message of ‘truth and glad tidings’. This should be remembered when engaging in Dawa to genuine people that humanity, humour and connection are also important. It’s seems the best at Dawa are those with good aklaq and who at times listen more than talk, the likes brother Paul himself or bro Zeshan (smile to Jannah) or the Green Lantern at speakers corner or Daniel Haqiqatu or Bassem Yousef (whose personality & sense of humour comes out) are far more effective than the likes of the more ‘bombastic’ Ali Dawa & Mohammed Hijab in my personal view/opinion (though the latter two are probably more popular with ‘preaching to the converted’ (ie Moslem youth), thought there’s a target market segment for them all.
Humans are each Unique in their capacities , situation , understandings , personalities , strengths , ways of Being etc etc So too are Muslims , each Uniquely Muslim & Allaah SwTA , The All Knowledgeable is Possessor of Infinite Multitude of Unique Means through which to Guide Best for Each Individual
Thank you for this talk. I've often thought that academics in Muslim countries should study why so many follow superstitions or do acts which they know are against Islam
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله وبركاته وبعد Islamic way of Life is the Catalogue 4 Mankaind to Manege and Maintain all Problems on this Globe 🌞thatsway Allah Chose Belivers as Khalifa 😃to Call and Lead the World to 🤗Best Life in boath World👍🏻 والله يتولى الصالحين وهو رب العرش العظيم بارك الله فيكم.💕
اللهم صل🌹 و سلم🌹 و بارك🌹 على سيدنا محمد🌹 عبدك 🌹و نبيك 🌹و رسولك🌹 و شفيعنا 🌹و قرة اعيننا 🌹النبي🌹 الامي🌹 الطاهر🌹 الزكي🌹 التقي 🌹النقي🌹 الذي ملات قلبه بنور جلالك 🌹و ملات عينيه بنور جمالك🌹 و ملات سمعه بلذيذ خطابك🌹 و على اله🌹 و صحبه 🌹و سلم تسليما كثيرا 🌹بقدر عظمة ذاتك 🌹في كل و قت و حين🌹 .
Al Islam is The Return , thus one can does not actually " convert " to Al Islam , one can Only Return to Al Islam , A Returnee or Revert to Al Islam , Returns or Reverts to The Original Faith , of All Humanity & All The True Prophets & Messengers in The Service of The One Eternal Transcendental Universal All Creator , Who Is Alone Worthy of Worship , Unto Whom All Belong & All Return .
Congratulation for all muslims Last night 2 arabs Shaiks named Shaik Al Moheimidi and Shaik Waleed ismael from kuwait and saudi arabia issued a Fatwa !! Which says : Cleansing your private parts from urine and fea. More important for islam than supporting Gazans kids in Gaza !!! Any one knows arabic "go and check🙏"
The main reason which anyone should adopt Islam is because of Promise from God Almighty Allah of a perpetual life in heaven to everyone who lives his/her life by worship of one God as taught to us by the final message from Allah in the Holy Quran conveyed through Prophet Muhammad, for entire humanity.
Christendom was always an empirial religion, born under the auspices of constantine, the subjects were converted at the edge of the sword and rendered into slaves for his majesty, often referring to him as their lord. In Islam such slavery is unthinkable. The only lordship is that of the creator, no station into which man was brought into the lands of Islam was to any degree as bad as the repugnant chattel slavery brought by the primitive tribalism inherent in their texts. Constantine chose regularly to refer to himself as the “servant of God” (famulus dei/therapon tou theou) in official writings. By the fifth century, this metaphor of subordination had been redeployed from theological to political contexts as the subjects of the emperor came to refer to themselves as “slaves of the emperor.” And by the sixth, Justinian insisted all his officials swear an oath that they would demonstrate their service to the emperor “with genuine slavehood” (gnesia douleia).b Building on Paul’s revalorization of the vocabulary of slavery, and particularly the word doulos came to be applied to a variety of hierarchical relationships, even as it also continued to be used specifically of chattel slaves. By the middle Byzantine period, this expansion of the semantic range of the root doul- eventually gave the abstract nominal form douleia, meaning laborer Insofar as everyone who partook in labor was considered to be a participant This epistemological world view is coherent with master-slave dynamic relationship between the head of the state and his subjects, or rather slaves. The word עוֹלֵל, ʿôlēl which means 'Babe, infant, little one, a suckling' occurs 21 King James Bible Verses Of these verses: “Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” -Psalm 137:9 “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”-1 Samuel 15:3 “Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.”-Hosea 13:16 The other verses are not much different. Infact it is always in association with violence. Indeed these verses are the reason why in the Crusades the sense of pious rejoicing at massacre does not appear to be the product of later theologizing; it is also found, in the account of the eye-witness Raymond of Aguilers: “in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies.” In fact, Raymond continues, “This day, I say, will be famous in all future ages, for it turned our labours and sorrows into joy and exultation; this day, I say, marks the justification of all Christianity, the humiliation of paganism, and the renewal of our faith.” Another account by a chronicler and eyewitness-priest, Albert of Aachen, describes the killing of fleeing women, and depicts crusaders as:: “seizing [infants who were still suckling] by the soles of their feet from their mothers’ laps or their cradles…and dashing them against the walls or lintels of the doors and breaking their necks […] they were sparing absolutely no gentile of any age or kind.”The incoherence inherent in a stranger to Abraham calling the children of Abraham gentiles notwithstanding, this account evokes the very same Psalm 137:9 imprecation against Babylon, in Latin, “beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram.” Albert describes a massacre occurring, in cold blood, on the second day following the conquest, painting a scene that is as horrific as it is realistic and detailed: "Girls, women, matrons, tormented by fear of imminent death and horror-struck by the violent murder wrapped themselves around the Christians’ bodies in the hope to save their lives, even as the Christians were raving and venting their rage in murder of both sexes. Some threw themselves at their feet, begging them with pitiable weeping and wailing for their lives and safety. When children five or three years old saw the cruel fate of their mothers and fathers, of one accord they stepped up the weeping and pitiable clamour. But they were making these signals for pity and mercy in vain. For the Christians gave over their whole hearts to murder, so that not a suckling little male-child or female, not even an infant of one year would escape the hand of the murderer". Evoking several of these verses in practice: - (Num 31:17-18) Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. - (Deut 7:2, 9:3, Num 21) thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them... - (Ezek 9:6) Slay utterly old [and] young both maids and little children and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] mark begin at my sanctuary. This is the polar opposite in the Quran in Surah Al-Tanwir, literally "The Englightenining" Surah, Aya 8-9, we have the death of a newborn is mentioned amongst the penultimate signs of the end of times, emphasizing the gravity of such an action. That child, now resurrected, is asked for what wrong doing was she murdered. This is to emphasize that she had done nothing wrong, for she had done nothing wrong and this is the day of retribution where those who omitted the evil are to be punished. This is the polar opposite in the Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqara Aya 190, which exhorts to fight unbelievers and not be "Aggressors", in the commentary of what it means to be aggressors, this was stated Al-Hasan Al-Basri stated that transgression (indicated by the Ayah): "includes mutilating the dead, theft (from the captured goods), killing women, children and old people who do not participate in warfare, killing priests and residents of houses of worship, burning down trees and killing animals without real benefit." This is also the opinion of Ibn `Abbas, `Umar bin `Abdul-`Aziz, Muqatil bin Hayyan and others. Muslim recorded in his Sahih that Buraydah narrated that Allah's Messenger said: "Fight for the sake of Allah and fight those who disbelieve in Allah. Fight, but do not steal, commit treachery, mutilate, or kill a child, or those who reside in houses of worship." It is reported in the Two Sahihs that Ibn `Umar said, "The Prophet forbade killing women and children." بابتداء القتال أو بقتال من نهيتم عن قتاله من النساء والشيوخ والصبيان والذين بينكم وبينهم عهد أو بالمثلة أو بالمفاجأة من غير دعوة "To kill those whom you were forbidden to from women, elderly, children and those whom betwixt you is a treaty or custom or by surprise or without cause" -Tafsir Al-Zamakshari of the meaning of Aggressors in the Aya More hadith from Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah: حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ، مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ مَوْلَى لِبَنِي عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ إِذَا بَعَثَ جُيُوشَهُ قَالَ: «§لَا تَقْتُلُوا أَصْحَابَ الصَّوَامِعِ» "Do not kill the dwellers of monasteries" حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، عَنْ جُوَيْبِرٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ: كَانَ «§يُنْهَى عَنْ قَتْلِ الْمَرْأَةِ، وَالشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ» سَعْدٍ قَالَ: «§نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ قَتْلِ النِّسَاءِ وَالذُّرِّيَّةِ، وَالشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ الَّذِي لَا حَرَاكَ بِهِ» "The prophet forbids the killing of women, children, and the elderly" This is the polar opposite in the Qur'an, Surah Al-Anfal Ayah 61 in which even oath breaking deniers/unbelievers are allowed to sue for peace states if the unbelievers they ask for peace, give it to them. Stephen Langton, the writer of the Magna Carta (12th century, contemporary with the crusades for a reason) studied in the university of Paris which archives show had plenty of Arabic treatises in its procession, there can be no question about it being inspired by the "Sharia". both the renessiance and the european enlightenment were directly preceded by massive translation movements form Arabic (see the Republic of Letters by Alexander Bevilacqua, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization By: Jonathan Lyons. The modifiable testament testament commands indiscriminate killing, genocide, plunder, mutilation, enslavement, or torture of enemies, including women, on the other hand.Surah Al-Baqara Aya 190 limits war to those who fight against Muslims, prohibits transgression, and implies respect for human dignity and life Indeed it is what precedes the famous "sword verse", always cited out of context. God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
JzkmL Khairan Allaah SwTA Grant , through His Infinite Rahmah , that we all & all our children & progeny to the final generations , that we , each & all , Be Recorded as amongst The Best of His Servants in The Ultimate Roll Call of Jannatul Firdous Aameen 💖
Ma sha Allah amazing post, very well written, may Allah grant you Light in your words, face, and actions and success in both worlds, amin. Are you revert, feel free not to answer, but if so, could you tell me the reasons how you end up researching Islam and becoming one yourself.. The last line was surprisingly powerful... abrupt and powerful. Salam alyaikum
because of tevba 39 ; If ye go not forth He will afflict you with a painful doom, and will choose instead of you a folk other then you Ye cannot harm Him at all. Allah is Able to do all things..!
There are many in the world who consider “quite” to be less than “very”. That’s how people in Malaysia and Singapore, for instance, understand it. So, “quite much” could mean “a fair bit” but not “very much”.
@kalijasin yeah right 😒 ...Strange how much it is similar to the Christian believe...That even though Christians are greater in number people are not accepting Christianity...I wonder 🤔 why...
Congratulation for all muslims Last night 2 arabs Shaiks named Shaik Al Moheimidi and Shaik Waleed ismael from kuwait issued a Fatwa !! Which says : Cleansing your private parts from urine and fea. More important for islam than supporting Gazans kids in Gaza !!! Any one knows arabic "go and check🙏"
There is nothing wrong with birth rates either. We Muslims are comfortable with undertaking the responsibilities of parenting while the disbelievers want freedom from responsibilities and, hence, are having fewer and fewer children. May Allah bless us with numerous pious and strong children who serve Islam.
between 2000 to to 2010, a decade Statistic, 60% of American who converted to a new religion chose Islam. The remaining 40% chose inter-denominational (changing from one branch of Christianity to another) and very very little chose other religions... notice that decades was when Islam was receiving bad media especially there, yet 60% of American who changed religion chose this faith :) and it is the same in Europe and in Germany 3 out of 4 converts are Women, and some missionary that I spoke with online, say to me (oh they are not educated), and then I add this fact: "actually the majority of these women were university graduate" that is their profile. :).. so many fail the truth when they say "birth rate" I agree
An observation I’ve noticed are converts wearing clothes from middle-eastern countries that gives a perception of an “Arabization” taking place to the layman. Another factor would be changing their name to an Arabic one. Both can look like a rejection of both culture and language. There should be a grassroots project that brings true Abrahamic monotheism to the local cultures that highlights their unique characteristics while sidelining the harmful aspects. Zaytuna College and Cambridge Muslim College are the best references, in my opinion, of such an endeavor.
Converts can choose to wear whatever clothes they desire as long as they cover their private parts. That you posit this convert's clothes as 'Arabization' speaks to a deep western indoctrination which posits 'western' clothing as the norm and anything outside that as signifying a different and often 'inferior' culture. Again people do not have to change their name in Islam provided their name is not a slur or obscene. That some converts choose a new name as part of their new life is a personal choice.
Some points: - The absolute number of white people converting to Islam in European countries is barely enough to register on a pie chart. - Dawah statistics rarely include attrition, which is difficult to track; it is likely high, as is the case for most life-changing commitments. - Of the converts that remain, these can be broken down into the following groups: 1. The core contingent primarily practices what would be considered Quraniyoon, or Quran-centered Islam - at least in deed, if not outright stated. Unless you are embedded into a strict Muslim sub-community where adherence to literalism and the hadiths is enforced, there is no compelling obligation for Westerners to follow the Hadiths. Aside from this, the Dawah scene is either directly or inadvertently aware of this as the Quran is the basis of Dawah, not the hadiths. Almost all of the revert channels and clips have people discussing coming to Islam after reading the Quran, not Bukhari and Muslim. 2. The intellectual or philosophical convert - these people primarily go to Sufism and are generally perennially inclined anyway; Guenon and Abdal Hakim Murad are the most well-known examples, though several content creators fit this bill. The alignment to the mystical elements of religion keeps these people out of orthodoxy and literalism. 3. The existential crisis convert - these are the absolute minority of a minority who go right to the conservative end of Islam; most people do not even touch upon strict Orthodox Sunnism, but a few go right into Salafism - I don't believe that anyone can make that kind of leap without there being a substantial trigger. (also, why are they always ginger?.) - Speaking as a British man, I would be surprised if you could even convince 99.9% of Brits to give up their cocker spaniel and music, let alone commit to a lifestyle of strict rules based on a culture that is entirely extraneous to our Way of Being.
You can be a Muslim and still do harram things, if you go to a any Muslim country it's not some strict puritanical place. It's normal but with athan and a few people praying 5 times a day
@barryirlandi4217 maybe, but you still have to submit to the hadiths and scholars' decisions about what is permissible and impermissible, which means you have to believe intrinsically that music is haram, even if you still listen or play - that is the crucial difference - the complete disregarding of one's own opinions on matters already decided.
I believe when our daees starting speaking English from the likes of Ahmad Deedat, may Allah reward him, it was a catalyst for westerners to open their eyes to Islam. Islam was always seen as an Arab or `the other' religion even thought most of the prophets came from the Middle East! Of course all of this by the will of Allah swt.
I am quiet interested in seeing the data and actual #, I am a westerner, and I lived in many countries, for some reasons I have never heard of these claims about the popularity of islam in Canada, the US and Europe.
Mr Paul would you be so kind as to have an analytical look at life and works of Ali Hajveri(r.a.)-one of the most celebrated Sufi mentors particularly 'Kashf-al-Mehjoob' a textbook for all Sufi schools!
"Jesus" did not intend to establish a new religion. He never used or heard the words Christian or Christianity or any equivalent of either. In the opening chapters of Acts we find two addresses by Peter, one delivered to the disciples when an apostle to succeed Judas Iscariot was to be chosen, and the other to the Jews on the day of Pentecost. On neither occasion did the speaker mention a new religion, or a church open to Gentiles as well as to Jews, or an abandonment of the Mosaic law. If these ideas had been in his mind at that time, he could not have omitted some reference to them. That the apostles and disciples in Jerusalem continue for at least eighteen years to comply with the requirements of the Mosaic law is proved by the epistle of Paul and also by Acts. In the latter book we read that at time not specified, probably not earlier than 40 C.E Peter went to Joppa and there ate with Gentiles-^that i he violated the Pharisaic interpretation of one of the Mosaic ceremonial rules-and after his return to Jesus; then, he was called to account by his fellow disciple He justified his conduct, not on the ground that Jesus had abrogated the ceremonial law of Moses, or any part of it, but that in a dream he had received a divine communication telling him that all manner of beasts, fowls, an creeping things were clean, and that it was lawful for him to keep company with Gentiles, who were " unclean under the law of Moses. This announcement was accepted as authoritative, but with much surprise, " becaus that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost."' This statement of the revelation to Peter, and of it acceptance by the disciples in Jerusalem, is doubtless a invention of the author of Acts. It cannot be brought into harmony with later passages of his own book, nor with the statements of Paul, who is our only trustworth; witness in these matters. According to Acts, about 51 C. E. a council was held in Jerusalem to put an end to the dissension which had arisen in the church on the questions of circumcision and unclean meats. This council decided in favor of Paul, who was in attendance and the decision as given in a letter addressed not to all Christians but only to " the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia"-where Paul had been making converts, informing them that they were not required to observe the Mosaic ceremonial law. It is quite clear that no such council would have been held if the matter had been decided ten years before, as Acts says it had been. But this account of the council of 51 C. E. is also a fiction. About eight years later Paul went to Jerusalem again, and his appearance there provoked a riot. The mob wanted to kill him because of his hostility to the Mosaic law, and this mob included Jewish Christians as well as Jews. All the Christians in Jerusalem were zealous adherents of the Mosaic law. Some of the leading brethren, presumably apostles, advised Paul to take a false oath that he did not teach his Jewish converts to neglect the law. And, if we can believe Acts, he took that oath. This, however, did not pacify the mob, which would have put him to death if the Roman soldiers had not protected him. They took him to prison and finally to Rome. This story in Acts implies that the apostolic church adopted one rule of discipline for the Gentile and another for the Jewish Christians; that the latter were, and that the former were not, required to comply with the Mosaic ceremonial law. This duplicity of discipline is not recorded elsewhere. It is not known to Paul ; and if it had existed, he could neither have been ignorant of it nor remained silent about it. He tells us that the twelve apostles in Jerusalem, or those of them known to him, favored strict adherence to Moses; and the only way in which he could get along harmoniously with them was by promising to do no missionary work in Judea. He was to labor among the Gentiles, Trinitarians are inoculated from rationality, facts and logic. It is no surprise that basic reasoning is entirely lost on those that believe that the creator became one of those he created in order to save the created from his own self. Not to mention the incoherence in the scripture, never minding the creed itself. Matthew 4:1) Jesus was tempted [James 1:13) God cannot be tempted (John 1:29) Jesus was seen (1 John 4:12) No man has ever seen God (Acts 2:22) Jesus was and is a man, sent by God (Numbers 23:19, Hosea 11:9) God is not a man (Hebrews 5:8-9) Jesus had to grow and learn (Isaiah 40:28) God doesn't ever need to learn (1 Corinthians 15: 3-4) Jesus Died (1 Timothy 1:17) God cannot die (Hebrews 5:7) Jesus needed salvation (Luke 1:37) God doesn't need salvation (Mark 4:38) Jesus slept (Psalm 121: 2-4) God doesn't sleep (John 5:19) Jesus wasn't all powerful (Isaiah 45: 5-7) God is all powerful (Mark 13:32) Jesus wasn't all knowing (Isaiah 46:9) God is all knowing Older one is no different, Abijah was a wicked king, and had war with his rival (1. Kings 15:3). 2 Chronicles 13:3 says that Abjiah was pious ; that he took the field with 400,000 men against Jeroboam, who was at the head of 800,000 men ; and in a great battle the King of Israel was defeated, and 500,000 of his men slain. It seems that, 1,200,000 soldiers sent into the field at one time by two small tribes, and the destruction of 500,000 men in one battle, were beneath the notice of the author of Kings. How can one beieve that the One that decrees that which is a 'sin' and that which is good "die for their sins" ? He is the One who decreed it thus, can decree it not so. To whom does the One with whom final authority resides in sacrifice for? a registrar? - No. None are greater than He. Rationality was only born with Islam, those who cannot count have nothing to say, at the end of the day 1+1+1 will never equal 1 God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
Based on Sheikh Al-Sueidi’s slide on “Reasons for Guidance in the Qur’an,” does that mean it’s basically a waste of time to do da’wah with arrogant, entitled people, liars, and oppressors?
No, you should not judge a person whom you give dawah to, because u probably dont know them. You should give dawah and let Allah do the rest. Only Allah knows what is in their heart, and only he knows whom to guide.
Surah Al-Imran Aya 49, of the Quran states that jesus was sent to the israelites, although written over 1,300 years ago in the 19th century (same century bible was only transtalted into Arabic in as well) they came to the same conclusion, He never used or heard the words Christian or Christianity or any equivalent of either. Paul had neither met nor seen Jesus, his relation to the twelve apostles was one of decided independence and even of opposition. He acknowledged no subordination to them. He addressed no doctrinal epistle to them or their churches, and received none from them. He made no reports to them. He did not correspond with them regularly. They never invited him to preach to their congregations and he never invited them to address his converts. He declared that he did not owe his conversion, his baptism, or his doctrine to the twelve, and that he never spent any long time in Jerusalem or in Judea as a Christian missionary. He claimed to be an apostle by a secret divine commission, but the twelve never admitted the validity of his claim. They never gave him the title of apostle; they never said anything indicative of willingness to admit him into their councils. Vacancies occurred in their number, but they never chose him to a vacant place, rather we have statements of Peter with regards to Paul which show nothing but animosity: "And if our Jesus appeared to you also and became known in a vision and met you as angry with an enemy [recall: Paul had his vision while still persecuting the Christians: Acts 9], yet he has spoken only through visions and dreams or through external revelations. But can anyone be made competent to teach through a vision? And if your opinion is that that is possible, why then did our teacher spend a whole year with us who were awake? How can we believe you even if he has appeared to you?… But if you were visited by him for the space of an hour and were instructed by him and thereby have become an apostle, then proclaim his words, expound what he has taught, be a friend to his apostles and do not contend with me, who am his confidant; for you have in hostility withstood me, who am a firm rock, the foundation stone of the Church" -Homily 17 Section XIX On the pauline credo currently called trinitanity Peter said "For some from among the Gentiles have rejected my lawful preaching and have preferred a lawless and absurd doctrine to the man who is my enemy. And indeed some have attempted, while I am still alive, to distort my words by interpretations of many sorts, as if I taught the dissolution of the law… But that may God forbid ! For to do such a thing means to act contrary to the Law of God which was made to Moses and was confirmed by our Lord in its everlasting continuance. For he said, “The heaven and the earth will pass away, but not one jot or one tittle shall pass away from the Law.” -Letter of Peter to James, 2.3-5 Soon after Jesus had selected his twelve apostles, according to Luke, he " gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. And he said unto them: 'Take nothing for your journey, neither staves nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. And whatsoever house ye enter, there abide and thence depart. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them." This is the entire charge of Jesus to his apostles when he sent them out to convert the world, as reported by Luke, who claims to give the address or a portion of it, and that presumably the most important portion, word for word. The language here attributed to Jesus conveys no idea that he had any purpose of founding a new church. Neither here nor anywhere else, in the language attributed to him in the New Testament, does he explain the phrase " the kingdom of God " to mean a new ecclesiastical organization. In several passages he does use it to signify the celestial dominion after the destruction of the world; and this is therefore presumably its meaning everywhere. The gospel of Matthew is much further than that of Luke in its report of the charge of Jesus to his apostles: "These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying: 'Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.", "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I am come not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother... He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward." This charge, as reported by Matthew omitted nearly all the main ideas that would have been appropriate in an address instructing the twelve to preach the foundation of Christianity. It does not say whether Jesus wished to reform or to supersede Judaism; whether his principal purpose was ecclesiastical, moral, political, or sanitary. The remarks about healing the sick and casting out devils is the most explicit of all the instructions. Certainly no reader can learn from that charge that Jesus intended to establish a new religion; and much less can he learn any feature of the faith or discipline of a projected new church. And this address is that portion of the New Testament where such information should be given most clearly. He made no doctrinal definition and no ecclesiastical organization. He did not use the key words of the original doctrines necessary to Christianity or a new church, nor the keywords of ideas afterwards associated with Christianity, such as Incarnation, Trinity, Immaculate Conception, and Transubstantiation. The subjects to which the most space or most prominence is given in the sayings attributed, in the gospels, to Jesus, are, First, the Mosaic law; Second, judgment day; Third, faith; Fourth, the sins of the Pharisees; Fifth, ascetic morality; and Sixth, his divine commission. Christendom was always an empirial religion, born under the auspices of constantine, the subjects were converted at the edge of the sword and rendered into slaves for his majesty, often referring to him as their lord. In Islam such slavery is unthinkable. The only lordship is that of the creator, no station into which man was brought into the lands of Islam was to any degree as bad as the repugnant chattel slavery brought by the primitive tribalism inherent in their texts. Constantine chose regularly to refer to himself as the “servant of God” (famulus dei/therapon tou theou) in official writings. By the fifth century, this metaphor of subordination had been redeployed from theological to political contexts as the subjects of the emperor came to refer to themselves as “slaves of the emperor.” And by the sixth, Justinian insisted all his officials swear an oath that they would demonstrate their service to the emperor “with genuine slavehood” (gnesia douleia) building on Paul’s revalorization of the vocabulary of slavery, and particularly the word doulos came to be applied to a variety of hierarchical relationships, even as it also continued to be used specifically of chattel slaves. By the middle Byzantine period, this expansion of the semantic range of the root doul- eventually gave the abstract nominal form douleia, meaning laborer. Triune nonsense is straight out of the Roman Pantheon. Hercules, anyone? Cerberus? The trinity of Zeus, Athena Apollo, literally called the Triune. Greek goddess Hecate was portrayed in triplicate, a three-in-one. This was all done to make the creed more digestible, followed by mental gymnastics attempting to reconcile the onsensical with elaborate theories. Why doesn't a square peg fit into a round hole? Answer by saying it's a mystery instead of geometries not lining up. No such thing as the bible, the new testament is a concoction of several books that were deemed canonical, books written in Greek that were given the hellenized names of Apotsles who neither wrote, nor spoke greek to give it an illusion of antiquity, much like the calendar we have today, which was established in the year 535 CE by Dionysus Exegesis so too was the original message altered to that of the pauline credo, a digestible religion to the yet to be converted greeks who had no desire to follow the mosaic laws. There never was such another epidemic of ecclesiastical forgery. The church was flooded with books attributed falsely to apostolic times and authors. The names of many of these books, and the texts of some, are preserved. Distinguished saints and learned fathers of the faith openly commended the invention and acceptance of false- hoods designed to aid the conversion of the world to what they believed to be truth. None of the disciples spoke of trinity, ate pork or proclaimed it is allowable to do so, yet the miracle begotten paul, whom peter called him enemy, introduced his new creed according to his whims It proclaimed the abrogation of the Mosaic ceremonial law. It announced itself as a new and independent religion; calling its adherents Christians, and their doctrine Christianity. Rationality was only born with Islam, those who cannot count have nothing to say, at the end of the day 1+1+1 will never equal 1 God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
A few thoughts from an old ex North London boy in his seventies. I have witnessed the downfall of the UK, the breakdown of society, one thing that preserved it in many ways was the church, rather like salt as a preservative I don't think many people had deep religious faith but more of a t4aditonal and cultural view. Well the west and thr UK have gone mad since them, we now have minorities running the show, people ashamed of being British and of course a totally messed up view of gender and what a woman is. Can Islam expand in the UK when clearly the place has become so far removed from spiritual teaching ofcany description. I think there are four verses in the Qur'an that say what I believe in a nut. Say Allah who is one Allah the eternal refuge Allah was neither born nor gives birth Allah has no equivalent, no superiors. Sura 112
What Paul just said about that funeral. It was the same in Hinduism in the olden days. The living wife was burnt alive with the body of the husband. May be still happens in some remote areas of India.
Why Islam is Gaining...The Western pursuit of happiness through consumption has indeed fueled over-consumerism, contributing significantly to environmental degradation and climate change. Islamic principles of moderation and stewardship offer an alternative approach that prioritizes sustainability and mindful use of resources. As environmental awareness grows, integrating these values across cultures may be crucial to building a sustainable future for all.
Thank you for picking up the subject of scripture based dawa: I'm german and was very upset by the approach on contradictions in the bible: Even practicing christians are not used to flick through the scripture like this, let alone the religious education they recieved for many years. (The only ones used to that might be Jehovas Witnesses or Mormons, because they too, use this method for proselytizing - and that's why they are not very popular amongst people). So: Not a very good approach, especially not for the first contact. (This might be an approach for the secular population or those who already have left the churches). The books available on islam of noneuropean authors are often translated in a way which doesn't fit the way we are used to get information from: Far too flowery in the praise of islam instead of appearing more neutral, factual and patient to the new reader: Why not stick to abbreviations first in the praise of God (swt), the prophet Mohammed (pbuh) and the sahaba (as)? Less black and white painting (what to do/ what not to do without any deeper information why this is so crucial to the muslim faith). Why being so shy about relating to christian beliefs in order to explain common and different parts of faith? I missed appreciation of the christian faith with the bible being the previously revealed scripture to the qu'ran: Most muslims I know have never touched it and don't like to have it in their homes as if it was something harmful. As far as I know are all of the scriptures considered worth knowing. And I was showered with prejudices about christian faith which I never heard of before! Yes, that happens to all of us, but please acknowledge this to be a deal on both sides - we all lack knowledge about the other - and please consider some tolerance of ambiguity, too! I think myself as muslim now even if I am still at the beginning of my way in islam - but it wasn't that easy to get there. The communities in the mosques are often small, much smaller than they seem to be in the Commonwealth, rarely mixed communities and teachings about islam are often mixed with extremism in Germany. Therefor a special thank you to Paul for enlarging my access to islam and feeling understood as a revert. And thank you for your guest, the brother from sweden to take up the subject whilst having been through something like this before. May Allah reward you for your good deeds!
Definitely gaining popularity. That's why Americans have elected a president who would like to ban Muslims from America and the mood in Europe isn't much different.
@firmansyahwibowo It's similar to the Cold War. There were Americans and Europeans who became Communists. There was a Communist Party of the USA. But that wasn't the mainstream. That was people who wanted to be opposite the mainstream.
"why Americans have elected a president who would like to ban Muslims" not true. islam was nt a topic at all in this election cycle. nobody voted for trump because he hates moslems, why? because he did nt mention islam or moslems once in the entire election campaign. he constantly talked about immigrants from south america however, like a million times.
@@pieeater1862 Well, what sort of immigration policies do Western countries have regarding Muslims and how have those policies changed over the past 15 years? Many governments look at Sweden as a cautionary tale.
*Timestamps:*
00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - Background of Dr. Sueidi
01:46 - Today's Topic: Embracing Islam
04:37 - The reality of the muslim ummah today
07:08 - How Islamic Theology is Studied
11:09 - Key disciplines in western religious studies
15:38 - Elements of Western Religious Studies
18:30 - How can muslims benefit from western religious studies?
23:50 - Issues with the beliefs of the Pope
25:18 - Problems with religious studies in the west
35:14 - Influences on the religious human being
38:16 - Guidance & misguidance in islamic theology
42:45 - Reasons for Guidance in the Qur'an
46:09 - Understanding theories in religious studies
48:00 - Lewis Rambo's theory of conversion
55:07 - Psychology of Persuasion
58:41 - The Story of Joram van Klaveren
1:00:32 - Understanding the psychology of persuasion
1:05:39 - Who converts to Islam in Sweden?
1:10:41 - What or Who influenced them?
1:12:47 - How much are they practicing Islam today?
1:14:34 - Do they feel happier after converting?
1:16:11 - Did they call others to Islam after conversion?
1:17:21 - Social Media Timeline
1:20:36 - Using A.I in Da'wah
1:23:58 - Reaching out with the message of Islam
1:28:22 - Exploring the sophistication in modern dawah
1:30:18 - Closing Remarks & Wrapping Up
SubhanAllah ❤️💙💛
Brilliant Presentation 👍🏻👌🏻
_May Allah ﷻ bless you both and reward you for your efforts._ 🤲🏻
Many thanks!
@BloggingTheology Can I have your email Brother Paul?
@@asadullahsaaid3794 paulwilliams@bloggingtheologyacademy.com
@@BloggingTheology hi I have been following ur channel from the starting... But now I have some doubts there r some people like Daniel Alan
brubaker and the book The One and the Many: by François Déroche raising question on the preservation of Quran... I have seen Ali taie videos before but there is something that I am not satisfied I hope you help brother 🙏
@BloggingTheology
My Parents converted to Islam over 30 years ago in a small village in Ireland, when Allah Choses to Guide none can misguide
May Allah bless the nation of Ireland and it's people with guidance towards Islam and prosperity upon Islam
would love to know how they became muslims, and what are the 2 or 3 points that made them study islam closer, brother Barryirlandi. I pray Allah protect you and grant you success in both worlds, and your family and all of us,
Hahahaha I don’t believe that for a second I’m Irish 30 years ago you say BS
@@Valhalla0404 there are cases even in the 17th century even earlier from trading but they did not declare their new faith because it was punished by society even by church you will be surprised if only one take a deeper look!
My wife is ethnically Swedish and I’m a Somali men. We live in a beautiful time. Alhamdulilah. More and more Swedish and ethnically Europeans people are coming to the beautiful religion of Islam. Welcome my brothers and sisters❤
Alhumdulliah
Not really, Islam is primarily growing through higher birth rates and mass immigration.
Stop pretending the west is converting. We're not. The vaaaast majority of westerners don't want it here.
Why do you think the west is leaning rightwing now?
Nothing beautiful about Islam.
Westerners are not converting, Islam is growing through mass immigration and high birth rates.
Most natives don't want that garbage here.
Nobody is converting though...
In Lebanon alot are accepting Islam too.
Alhamdulillah
What is the main cause?
@@malsh5608i watched more than one labanese who embraced islam ( and to be honest embracing islam in MENA region for families that have been in many generations Christians is difficult and most of them face family back lash , especially in Eygpt and Lebanon ) i would give 2 reasons , one is when they start interacting with muslims and understand islamic beliefs and streotypes about islam and muslims vanish
And another one the availability of bible in Arabic and how alot of the stories in the bible ironically cotradict with what have been taught as christian beliefs and values ( like the racism , genocide , prophets commiting big sins like deceiving and ra pe and incest ) also the trinity is such a dilemma especially when it is confronted with Islamic strict monotheism
And there is an issues that affect Christians of Egypt more than Lebanon ( since Christians of Lebanon are more leaning towards secularism ) it is the divorce issue
In christianity and the bible the divorce is prohibited except for two situation , the partner converting to another religion and 2nd is adultry , otherwise if you go to a secular or islamic court to get divorced , and you happen to want to marry again then the church will not bless your marriage even if your husband mostly or wife abusing you ( and it's such a big problem for people who want to practice the bible ) , also i have noticed an increase in the abuse happening in church's
Inshallah we see more halal food there i heard there are not many there
@@NightLion889 It's ot true at all
Very good presentation. I’m a clinical psychologist and work with a lot of Muslims (both cradle Muslims converts). There is nothing more appealing to me than to see how practicing Muslims keep God and faith at the center of their lives, especially during times of tremendous personal stress. For myself, that is compelling da’wah.
if you want to learn more about Islam, discuss, debate , I am your friend, Thanks to God I have solid knoweldge of Islam and good knoweldge of Christianity.. so please feel free to engage. I wish you the best dear Robert.
God should be remembered at all times, not only during the hard times when u are burdened. Read and be open minded, maybe god will guide u to the truth (if u are sincere).
Dear Robert just make the effort to learn more about Islam. Try reading the Qur'an and history of Prophet Muhammad pbuh. May Allah guide you to the truth.
I was born and raised a Muslim in Northern Nigeria and quite early in my life I watched and read a lot from sheikh Ahmad Deedat and it is quite easily understandable why I'm perpetually glued on to blogging theology on UA-cam. I would have always thought that some people are impervious to Islamic teachings and will never change . Eastern Nigeria on my mind and how so so wrong . People are moving into Islam in the Eastern Nigeria and we now have a chief imam of the national mosque from that region , allahu akbar. Daawah is very important I dare say so is our conduct . I've noticed however that people have become committed Muslims from incredibly unfathomable reasons , from empirical to metaphysical or spiritual reasons and a lot of times for inexplicable reasons . I've read and heard about people who have become Muslims never having met a single Muslim in their lives. I still hold that Islamic preachers are doing great job as spreading knowledge such as Paul Williams does on blogging theology. Having closely followed reasons advanced by a lot of reverts I can't help but to conclude that there may be 7 or 8 billion people in the world today and there are as much as 8 billion reasons to be Muslim if Allah azawajallah intends to reach everyone in the world . Allahu akbar
Myself, I've been going thru some change, some spiritual change. I have always been a devout hard core Catholic. I'm 58, and I'ce been having feelings of converting to Islam. I want to learn, I still must read the Koran but haven't yet, but I feel a pull towards learning Islam, wanting to be Islamic. God has always guided me, my faith, belief, morals, etc and I feel him urging me. I dont kbow what it is, but here I am.
BTW, on another comment, I received so many people welcoming me, calling me sister, thank you ❤Peace to you. ❤
Beautifully articulated "quite early in my life, I watched and read a lot from Sheikh Ahmad Deedat, and it is quite easily understandable why I'm perpetually glued to blogging theology..." : so am I ; habitually glued to such channel and alike.
Beautifully written, Beautifully said!
I’m here in America and feel the same way brother
@@lindabishop1402
You may liaise with Imam of local mosque in your locality or reach out for Islamic Centre adjacent to your town. May Allah swt guides you to embrace Islam in coming days. Insyaa Allah.
*The reason for the growth of Islam is simple, it appeals to our reason, the natural disposition.* ❤
Respectfully, what do you mean by "the natural disposition" ?
I'm a simple Christian believer and I respect the strong discipline of Muslims regarding prayer and good deeds. But so far ( and I've been listening to Blogging Theology for over 2 years ) I don't feel a desire to follow Islam. I don't think I have a "hardness of the heart" regarding Islam. I don't feel God's guidance to become Muslim.
I believe both reason and faith are important to understand God Himself. Through reason, we should be able to see the truth about God. Through God's revelation from the Gospels of the New Testament, we should be able to acknowledge the unique life of Jesus Christ as our Savior.
Through faith, we should ask God for understanding and guidance regarding the meaning of life and how Jesus Christ Himself explained the meaning of life.
To be honest, "growth" of the number of people in a religion means nothing to me. God doesn't look at numbers, but He looks at the heart.
I could be wrong.
No disrespect intended to you. I actually appreciate your comments.
@@johnbrzykcy3076 I think what that person's referring to is what God has planted to every human being in their soul and conscience. The belief in one God. In terms of religion, there's a reason why monotheistic religions are more popular than others even in our now advanced society. Islam is the one which really conserve the original message and balance it with practice even now, it is also open to anyone because in its creed it was sent for all humankind.
As for yourself, what I would say is we don't know the future, you may or may not ever have the desire to convert your belief. Allah has already explained this aspect in the Quran. There would be people who reject the message one way or another. But in my perspective there is a reason why you've been watching Paul's channel for 2 years. Either because you're just curious or you try to find validation that Islam is not true compared to your belief or you're a student of theology. Either way, I'll say it's a fact that Islam is appealing to you in a broader term or you won't be here.
@@johnbrzykcy3076 If it's only about heart, even if you're satanic, you will be okay.
@@johnbrzykcy3076 but your christianity has become more like a cult.
Your statement is generally true from a Fitrah perspective. But that would be a gross oversimplification for the growth of Islam. There are a multitude of reasons for the growth of Islam, from socio-cultural reasons like marriage to personal self-entitlement based reasons like new age ideologies popping up from time to time, like the recent "red pill movement" (of course that movement has nothing to do with submission to GOD's will) and finally appeal to the heart/qalb which leads to certainty in belief, not the previous two reasons. We do not idolize the structure of our Jamaah (a word with negative connotations in the Qur'an) like other religions. Yeah! "Alhamdulillah, you joined our community! Now you have the complete truth (as if Islam is not about reverting to the truth that already is).
Here in Lebanon Christians are accepting Islam too...Christian man named Himsef "Khodor" and became a (Sheich).
They would be stupid not to. It's the American Christian bombs that the Israelis are using to kill the Lebanese people.
Allahu Akbar!!
It's a relationship between man and God it has nothing to do with historical conflicts over a Land. @mdidris4414
Akhti, May Allah protect you, grant you mercy, love and grant Lebanon long lasting peace, and grant you Jannah and all of us. Amin
hello , I've got a few questions about Islam. Let me know if you can help.
Assalamu alaykoum I reverted in 1982 Masha Allah a real miracle my Sister in 1985 and my brother in 2023 at 84 al hamdullilah
Absolutely beautiful ❤. Mashallah what great blessings 🤲
Walaikumasalam
Islam isn't only growing in The West,but also in the Middle East...Lebanese are amongst the most that are accepting Islam if we want to talk about Lebanon which was a Christian majority land.
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@@lebanon202
Lebanon never been a Chrisains majority country:at least for the last millennium
Subhanaallah!!
Islam is The Truth ❤
Wow, Subhanallah!
Thank you Bro Paul al-Britanni for bringing such good topic for discussion. May God bless you for your amazing work
Asalamalaikum 🇺🇸 This was super insightful, including the stats, regarding Islam and Muslims in Sweden and the west in general. Jazakallah khair, as always, Paul.
wa alaikum assalam
Youre in the US? Get ready to get grilled by trump. Hes bringing back the bible
12:13 Not particularly Islamic scholar , but Dr. Abdul Rahman AlSubaidh(medical) spent 29 years of his life calling for Allah among African tribes. Nearly 10000 water wells, nearly 600 masjid,and nearly 900 schools established، above of all hundreds of thousands Africans embraced Islam by his efforts with the grace of Allah
Mashaallah, that is amazing.
Dear brothers Allah bless you are doing great work on this planet and we love you
Islam is cannibalizing western culture...
Based on my own observation as a Lebanese living with Christians in Lebanon I believe that Islam is growing due to the comparison of the non-Muslims between their believe and the Muslim believe...Christianity here in Lebanon is becoming a number only,churches are abandoned and because Muslims are the only still practising believers of Islam they're indirectly making non-Muslims want to be part of this strong believe...
We as Muslims live in harmony with the Christians in the Levantine..They even are invited to the fast break during Ramadan here in Lebanon and they are with us during (Sohuur)...
The influence of Muslims over non-Muslims in The Middle East is affected by neighbour bond and cultural harmony..
Muslims still are practicing Islam even though some can be mistaken as Christians.
INVASION OF TRIBAL ISLAM CAUSED BLOOD BATH IN LEBANON AND THE BEAUTIFUL LEBANON HAS TURNED INTO A VIRTUAL HELL!!
@muhammedsaleem3258 Maybe you should know that not only Lebanon was Christian but Syria,Palestine, Morroco,Tunisia,Algeria etc...We are Arabised Arabs ..Meaning we as "Levantine Canaanites" are originally Aramaic,Hebrews,Asyrians who learned and adopted to the Arabic language due to Islamic Arab influence and due to Ottoman Empire Conquest...We never left the Land,we simply became Arabs in Language and some of the Christian and Jews of the Levantine accepted Islam.
Muslims are the ones that offered protection to the Jews of the Levantine and even to the European Jews during the Conquest of Spain...And it's Muslims that protected the oldest Jewish and Christian Churches in The Land of Canaan which today is known as Palestine Lebanon Syria Jordan Iraq...We've never had issues with the Jews or Christians in Lebanon Syria Jordan Palestine Iraq...but the Zios are the Western Colon that caused Bloodshed amongst us and they K the Indigenous Jews of the Levantine too...Forced the Muslims to become Chr...And forced the Christian to be Roman Sect Chr
You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it...
Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism....
It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!!
It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!!
What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me?
France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French...
The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria.
What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!?
Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun?
What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties?
Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon?
Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun??
Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it...
Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism....
It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!!
It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!!
What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me?
France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French...
The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria.
What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!?
Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun?
What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties?
Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon?
Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun??
Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
@muhammedsaleem
You should know better that it's the {{Muslims}} who supported Lebanon and always stood by it...
Saudi Arabia has always been there for Lebanon,building it's Tourist Sites,and helping with the contribution of Tourism....
It's Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Kuwait who have always had been funding the Lebanese Army!!
It's Arab Muslims who built Lebanon not your so called peaceful Christians!!!
What did your Christians do for Lebanon?whether it's Western Christians or Arab Christians??What did the Christians do for Lebanon tell me?
France Ruled Lebanon for four hundred years causing blood shed and forced us to speak French...
The French mandate split Lebanon from Palestine and Syria.
What did the USA do for Lebanon except supporting the Zios to k** and destoy us, and our Mosques and Churches!!?
Who supported Lebanese students and contributed to the Graduation and Education of thousands of Lebanese of all Sects&Believes?Wasn't it The Martyr RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY? Or maybe it was your Christian Micheal Oun?
What did the Christians do during the Civil War in 1975?Wasn't it them who k*** Muslims and armed their Political Parties?
Wasn't it your so called peaceful Christians who stood by Michael Oun who caused Civil War in Lebanon?
Who supported The Syrian Regime!!! Was it The Muslim Sunni RAFEEQ EL-HAREERY or your Christian Michael Oun??
Who Bom**ed RAFEEQ EL HAREERY??with the Help of Hezbollah?Wasn't it your Christian (Michael Smaha)??
The preachers of Allah are the successors of the prophets and messengers. Thank you brothers Paul and Abdullah
MashaAllah reverting at 16 yo Subhan Allah
It amazes me how some young people are such deep thinkers
Humanity's only hope is to outgrow religion.
outgrow the truth? So we have to be blind?
MashaAllah, i learned a lot about this discussion. Please keep going on this beautiful path , i think if i know my target by understanding things gets easy. But in the end, guidance comes only by The Almighty alone.. May Allah The All-Knowing guide us all to his path. Ameeeeeeen ❤
Thanks to Blogging Theology to invite Dr. Abdullah As-Sueidi ❤ ❤ ❤
Dr. Hakim Quick a Canadian historian. Graduated from Almadinah. He had travilled around the world to study their Islamic heritages.
Really, the diversity of topics is what always keeps me following blogging theology.
Good lecture and well introduced.
Allah guides only those who are humble and sincere, not those who are arrogant and stubborn.
Sincerity is key . Even people who have been sincerely against Islam out of the true belief that they are serving God do ultimately get led back to Allah because of their good intentions and sincererity . Thank you brother
the irony is that the humble and sincere don t need guidance, its the arrogant and stubborn who are in need of guidance!
but allah refuses to help them. and thus all the dictators tyrants crooks and corrupt politicians ruling over our lives.
بارك الله فيكم وجزاكم الله خيرا والحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام
Abdullah As-Sueidi, one of my favorite guests. I have nostalgic memories listening your podcast about AI while shoveling snow on my yard in Finland. ⛄️
I used to study in Sweden and it was the first time in my life living abroad as minority. I had a thought that I might taste "the Western life" that I watched in movies.
I could not be so wrong since my time in Sweden was the most spiritual and religious I had experience. My innate tendency steered me to stay away from forbidden things (alhamdulillah) and I was more conscious in taking care of my daily prayer.
Based on experience, I found it relatively more difficult to find prayer room in Western countries but it is more and more common in international places (i.e. campus, airport).
To learn that Islam is growing in Sweden makes me happy 😃 in a sense that Muslim prayer spaces will be more common.
Jag tycker om att bo i Sverige. Jag vill att kom tillbaka nästa tiden.
Reading that made me feel sick.
How can you be happy about this?
Islam is growing through mass immigration and higher birth rates.
Good job bro Paul for interviewing scholars etc.
Abu Hurairah May Allah be pleased with him reported:
(The Messenger of Allah said The uttering of the words Subhan-Allah , Alhamdulillah , There is no god but Allah and Allahu Akbar is dearer to me than anything over which the sun rises)
Thanks
many thanks
Thank you brothers for such an impressive and informative interview. The vast majority of the world population are in need to be reached out for the truth.
The internet and shows like this one have brought Islam to the world. I'm so grateful for this. Alhamdulilah.
A very encouraging and insightful presentation!
MashaAllah. Allahumma baarikk
JzkmL Khairan
Allaah SwTA Grant , through His Infinite Rahmah , that we all & all our children & progeny & family to the final generations , that we , each & all , Be Well Guided & Recorded & Confirmed by Allaah SwTA amongst The Best of His Servants in The Ultimate Roll Call of Jannatul Firdous Aameen 💖
I’m swedish and also muslim, alhamdulillah!
Kul at se att vi Sverige också engagerar med sånt intellektuell content.
Jag hoppas på att Islam presenteras och artikuleras av flera på svenska ännu mer.
Jag har hört så många gånger att man ”tror på något högre makt” men inte vet vad det är. Särskilt här hemma.
Fred vare med er 🤚
Great delivery ❤
Always good discussions with a lot of knowledge, Alhamdulilah.
As for the studying of Christian scripture to learn about Christianity instead of the Christian persons themselves, it makes sense for a few reasons.
The biggest is that in Islam, we've been guided to take knowledge directly from God in the form of the Quran AlKareem and from the Quran, we're directed to the Sunnah. These are unchanging and timeless.
Christians derive their religion not from the scripture(s) but from people leading an institution called the Church. They have a human hierarchy which varies from denomination to denomination. The pope, for ex, can dictate belief and law. In Judaism, its similar in that people, called Sages, can dictate belief and law. Even if these are contradictory to their scripture. These are ever changing from leader to leader and time to time.
Another factor I think Muslim scholars should study is the history of other religions. Christian history explains a lot of where their beliefs come from, for example. Christians talk a lot about Jesus PBUH and believe they follow him when in reality, a majority of Christians do the opposite of what Jesus PBUH preached, even according to their scripture(s)! Rather, they follow the teachings of men like Constantine and Paul.
I wish I knew more about Judaism, but it is a more esoteric subject it seems.
It’s interesting and encouraging that Dr Abdulla is citing Dr Robert Ciladini who is an eminent professor of Psychology & Marketing in the USA. One thing some of the so called ‘Dawa Boys’, seem to forget is, ‘it’s not just what you say, but it’s how you make the other person feel’, & at times, they put their own personal ego’s & petty point scoring ahead of sharing a message of ‘truth and glad tidings’. This should be remembered when engaging in Dawa to genuine people that humanity,
humour and connection are also important. It’s seems the best at Dawa are those with good aklaq and who at times listen more than talk, the likes brother Paul himself or bro Zeshan (smile to Jannah) or the Green Lantern at speakers corner or Daniel Haqiqatu or Bassem Yousef (whose personality & sense of humour comes out) are far more effective than the likes of the more ‘bombastic’ Ali Dawa & Mohammed Hijab in my personal view/opinion (though the latter two are probably more popular with ‘preaching to the converted’ (ie Moslem youth), thought there’s a target market segment for them all.
Humans are each Unique in their capacities , situation , understandings , personalities , strengths , ways of Being etc etc
So too are Muslims , each Uniquely Muslim
&
Allaah SwTA , The All Knowledgeable is Possessor of Infinite Multitude of Unique Means through which to Guide Best for Each Individual
❤Mashallah 😍
Thank you for this talk. I've often thought that academics in Muslim countries should study why so many follow superstitions or do acts which they know are against Islam
الحمد لله الذي اعزنا بالاسلام وكفي بها نعمة ❤❤❤❤
Also Ib-nai-batuta, in his travel logs he wrote about people, their belief system neutrally.
One of the most facinating travel logs.
Brother is there a full copy of IBN batuta r.a travel available in English from start to the end completely, not a short form.?
Brother is there a full copy of IBN batuta r.a travel available in English from start to the end completely, not a short form.?
It's very important to study and prepare the soil before attempting to put the seed.
Alhmdulillah, Allahu Akbar!
thanks for your efforts
Amazing🎉
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله وبركاته وبعد Islamic way of Life
is the Catalogue 4 Mankaind to Manege and Maintain all Problems on this Globe 🌞thatsway Allah Chose Belivers as Khalifa 😃to Call and Lead the World to 🤗Best Life in boath World👍🏻 والله يتولى الصالحين وهو رب العرش العظيم بارك الله فيكم.💕
شكراً على الفيديو
Because the people want accountability 😔
What a great presentation ❤
سبحان الله وبحمده
سبحان الله العظيم
اللهم صل🌹 و سلم🌹 و بارك🌹 على سيدنا محمد🌹 عبدك 🌹و نبيك 🌹و رسولك🌹 و شفيعنا 🌹و قرة اعيننا 🌹النبي🌹 الامي🌹 الطاهر🌹 الزكي🌹 التقي 🌹النقي🌹 الذي ملات قلبه بنور جلالك 🌹و ملات عينيه بنور جمالك🌹 و ملات سمعه بلذيذ خطابك🌹 و على اله🌹 و صحبه 🌹و سلم تسليما كثيرا 🌹بقدر عظمة ذاتك 🌹في كل و قت و حين🌹 .
Allahumabaarik!!
Perhaps a more flattering thumbnail picture. Smiles go a long way.
it will be changed!
Al Islam is The Return , thus one can does not actually " convert " to Al Islam , one can Only Return to Al Islam , A Returnee or Revert to Al Islam , Returns or Reverts to The Original Faith , of All Humanity & All The True Prophets & Messengers in The Service of The One Eternal Transcendental Universal All Creator , Who Is Alone Worthy of Worship , Unto Whom All Belong & All Return .
As Sueidi ("the Swede") 👍
Congratulation for all muslims
Last night 2 arabs Shaiks named
Shaik Al Moheimidi and Shaik Waleed ismael from kuwait and saudi arabia issued a Fatwa !! Which says :
Cleansing your private parts from urine and fea.
More important for islam than supporting Gazans kids in Gaza !!!
Any one knows arabic "go and check🙏"
لا اله إلا انت سبحانك اني كنت من الظالمين
The main reason which anyone should adopt Islam is because of Promise from God Almighty Allah of a perpetual life in heaven to everyone who lives his/her life by worship of one God as taught to us by the final message from Allah in the Holy Quran conveyed through Prophet Muhammad, for entire humanity.
Christendom was always an empirial religion, born under the auspices of constantine, the subjects were converted at the edge of the sword and rendered into slaves for his majesty, often referring to him as their lord. In Islam such slavery is unthinkable. The only lordship is that of the creator, no station into which man was brought into the lands of Islam was to any degree as bad as the repugnant chattel slavery brought by the primitive tribalism inherent in their texts. Constantine chose regularly to refer to himself as the “servant of God” (famulus dei/therapon tou theou) in official writings. By the fifth century, this metaphor of subordination had been redeployed from theological to political contexts as the subjects of the emperor came to refer to themselves as “slaves of the emperor.” And by the sixth, Justinian insisted all his officials swear an oath that they would demonstrate their service to the emperor “with genuine slavehood” (gnesia douleia).b Building on Paul’s revalorization of the vocabulary of slavery, and particularly the word doulos came to be applied to a variety of hierarchical relationships, even as it also continued to be used specifically of chattel slaves. By the middle Byzantine period, this expansion of the semantic range of the root doul- eventually gave the abstract nominal form douleia, meaning laborer
Insofar as everyone who partook in labor was considered to be a participant This epistemological world view is coherent with master-slave dynamic relationship between the head of the state and his subjects, or rather slaves.
The word עוֹלֵל, ʿôlēl which means 'Babe, infant, little one, a suckling' occurs 21 King James Bible Verses Of these verses:
“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” -Psalm 137:9
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”-1 Samuel 15:3
“Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.”-Hosea 13:16
The other verses are not much different. Infact it is always in association with violence. Indeed these verses are the reason why in the Crusades the sense of pious rejoicing at massacre does not appear to be the product of later theologizing; it is also found, in the account of the eye-witness Raymond of Aguilers:
“in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies.” In fact, Raymond continues, “This day, I say, will be famous in all future ages, for it turned our labours and sorrows into joy and exultation; this day, I say, marks the justification of all Christianity, the humiliation of paganism, and the renewal of our faith.”
Another account by a chronicler and eyewitness-priest, Albert of Aachen, describes the killing of fleeing women, and depicts crusaders as::
“seizing [infants who were still suckling] by the soles of their feet from their mothers’ laps or their cradles…and dashing them against the walls or lintels of the doors and breaking their necks […] they were sparing absolutely no gentile of any age or kind.”The incoherence inherent in a stranger to Abraham calling the children of Abraham gentiles notwithstanding, this account evokes the very same Psalm 137:9 imprecation against Babylon, in Latin, “beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram.”
Albert describes a massacre occurring, in cold blood, on the second day following the conquest, painting a scene that is as horrific as it is realistic and detailed:
"Girls, women, matrons, tormented by fear of imminent death and horror-struck by the violent murder wrapped themselves around the Christians’ bodies in the hope to save their lives, even as the Christians were raving and venting their rage in murder of both sexes. Some threw themselves at their feet, begging them with pitiable weeping and wailing for their lives and safety. When children five or three years old saw the cruel fate of their mothers and fathers, of one accord they stepped up the weeping and pitiable clamour. But they were making these signals for pity and mercy in vain. For the Christians gave over their whole hearts to murder, so that not a suckling little male-child or female, not even an infant of one year would escape the hand of the murderer".
Evoking several of these verses in practice:
- (Num 31:17-18) Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- (Deut 7:2, 9:3, Num 21) thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them...
- (Ezek 9:6) Slay utterly old [and] young both maids and little children and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] mark begin at my sanctuary.
This is the polar opposite in the Quran in Surah Al-Tanwir, literally "The Englightenining" Surah, Aya 8-9, we have the death of a newborn is mentioned amongst the penultimate signs of the end of times, emphasizing the gravity of such an action. That child, now resurrected, is asked for what wrong doing was she murdered. This is to emphasize that she had done nothing wrong, for she had done nothing wrong and this is the day of retribution where those who omitted the evil are to be punished.
This is the polar opposite in the Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqara Aya 190, which exhorts to fight unbelievers and not be "Aggressors", in the commentary of what it means to be aggressors, this was stated Al-Hasan Al-Basri stated that transgression (indicated by the Ayah):
"includes mutilating the dead, theft (from the captured goods), killing women, children and old people who do not participate in warfare, killing priests and residents of houses of worship, burning down trees and killing animals without real benefit."
This is also the opinion of Ibn `Abbas, `Umar bin `Abdul-`Aziz, Muqatil bin Hayyan and others. Muslim recorded in his Sahih that Buraydah narrated that Allah's Messenger said: "Fight for the sake of Allah and fight those who disbelieve in Allah. Fight, but do not steal, commit treachery, mutilate, or kill a child, or those who reside in houses of worship."
It is reported in the Two Sahihs that Ibn `Umar said, "The Prophet forbade killing women and children."
بابتداء القتال أو بقتال من نهيتم عن قتاله من النساء والشيوخ والصبيان والذين بينكم وبينهم عهد أو بالمثلة أو بالمفاجأة من غير دعوة
"To kill those whom you were forbidden to from women, elderly, children and those whom betwixt you is a treaty or custom or by surprise or without cause"
-Tafsir Al-Zamakshari of the meaning of Aggressors in the Aya
More hadith from Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah:
حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ، مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ مَوْلَى لِبَنِي عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ إِذَا بَعَثَ جُيُوشَهُ قَالَ: «§لَا تَقْتُلُوا أَصْحَابَ الصَّوَامِعِ»
"Do not kill the dwellers of monasteries"
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، عَنْ جُوَيْبِرٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ: كَانَ «§يُنْهَى عَنْ قَتْلِ الْمَرْأَةِ، وَالشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ»
سَعْدٍ قَالَ: «§نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ قَتْلِ النِّسَاءِ وَالذُّرِّيَّةِ، وَالشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ الَّذِي لَا حَرَاكَ بِهِ»
"The prophet forbids the killing of women, children, and the elderly"
This is the polar opposite in the Qur'an, Surah Al-Anfal Ayah 61 in which even oath breaking deniers/unbelievers are allowed to sue for peace states if the unbelievers they ask for peace, give it to them.
Stephen Langton, the writer of the Magna Carta (12th century, contemporary with the crusades for a reason) studied in the university of Paris which archives show had plenty of Arabic treatises in its procession, there can be no question about it being inspired by the "Sharia". both the renessiance and the european enlightenment were directly preceded by massive translation movements form Arabic (see the Republic of Letters by Alexander Bevilacqua, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization By: Jonathan Lyons.
The modifiable testament testament commands indiscriminate killing, genocide, plunder, mutilation, enslavement, or torture of enemies, including women, on the other hand.Surah Al-Baqara Aya 190 limits war to those who fight against Muslims, prohibits transgression, and implies respect for human dignity and life Indeed it is what precedes the famous "sword verse", always cited out of context.
God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
JzkmL Khairan
Allaah SwTA Grant , through His Infinite Rahmah , that we all & all our children & progeny to the final generations , that we , each & all , Be Recorded as amongst The Best of His Servants in The Ultimate Roll Call of Jannatul Firdous Aameen 💖
Ma sha Allah amazing post, very well written, may Allah grant you Light in your words, face, and actions and success in both worlds, amin.
Are you revert, feel free not to answer, but if so, could you tell me the reasons how you end up researching Islam and becoming one yourself..
The last line was surprisingly powerful... abrupt and powerful. Salam alyaikum
God is closer to us than our Jugular vein.
because of tevba 39 ; If ye go not forth He will afflict you with a painful doom, and will choose instead of you a folk other then you Ye cannot harm Him at all. Allah is Able to do all things..!
There are many in the world who consider “quite” to be less than “very”. That’s how people in Malaysia and Singapore, for instance, understand it. So, “quite much” could mean “a fair bit” but not “very much”.
Psychology teaches us that the biggest driver of human behaviour is "social safety".
New Age Fusion Faiths & human personal ego & desire based beliefs & practices , make things so much more complex , confused & chaotic
Assalamo alaikom
Walaikum us Salaam
wa alaikum assalam
Haters will say because of Muslim birth rates...I didn't know British men and Indian men are considered Muslim birth children😂
@kalijasin yeah right 😒 ...Strange how much it is similar to the Christian believe...That even though Christians are greater in number people are not accepting Christianity...I wonder 🤔 why...
Congratulation for all muslims
Last night 2 arabs Shaiks named
Shaik Al Moheimidi and Shaik Waleed ismael from kuwait issued a Fatwa !! Which says :
Cleansing your private parts from urine and fea.
More important for islam than supporting Gazans kids in Gaza !!!
Any one knows arabic "go and check🙏"
There is nothing wrong with birth rates either. We Muslims are comfortable with undertaking the responsibilities of parenting while the disbelievers want freedom from responsibilities and, hence, are having fewer and fewer children. May Allah bless us with numerous pious and strong children who serve Islam.
@TheRockeyAllen Exactly,another reason is that they support same S Marriages which makes populations decline.
between 2000 to to 2010, a decade Statistic, 60% of American who converted to a new religion chose Islam. The remaining 40% chose inter-denominational (changing from one branch of Christianity to another) and very very little chose other religions... notice that decades was when Islam was receiving bad media especially there, yet 60% of American who changed religion chose this faith :) and it is the same in Europe and in Germany 3 out of 4 converts are Women, and some missionary that I spoke with online, say to me (oh they are not educated), and then I add this fact: "actually the majority of these women were university graduate" that is their profile. :).. so many fail the truth when they say "birth rate" I agree
Assalamu'alaikum 😊😊😊
wa alaikum assalam
Its growing because millions are imported of course 🤦
Muslims leave their homeland not for Islam or even for greed but because their homelands have been destroyed by western bombs and sanctions
نرجوا منكم ترجمة اللقاء حتى نستطيع مشاهدته ..
enlightening , Thanks
❤
An observation I’ve noticed are converts wearing clothes from middle-eastern countries that gives a perception of an “Arabization” taking place to the layman. Another factor would be changing their name to an Arabic one. Both can look like a rejection of both culture and language.
There should be a grassroots project that brings true Abrahamic monotheism to the local cultures that highlights their unique characteristics while sidelining the harmful aspects.
Zaytuna College and Cambridge Muslim College are the best references, in my opinion, of such an endeavor.
Converts can choose to wear whatever clothes they desire as long as they cover their private parts. That you posit this convert's clothes as 'Arabization' speaks to a deep western indoctrination which posits 'western' clothing as the norm and anything outside that as signifying a different and often 'inferior' culture. Again people do not have to change their name in Islam provided their name is not a slur or obscene. That some converts choose a new name as part of their new life is a personal choice.
Some points:
- The absolute number of white people converting to Islam in European countries is barely enough to register on a pie chart.
- Dawah statistics rarely include attrition, which is difficult to track; it is likely high, as is the case for most life-changing commitments.
- Of the converts that remain, these can be broken down into the following groups:
1. The core contingent primarily practices what would be considered Quraniyoon, or Quran-centered Islam - at least in deed, if not outright stated. Unless you are embedded into a strict Muslim sub-community where adherence to literalism and the hadiths is enforced, there is no compelling obligation for Westerners to follow the Hadiths. Aside from this, the Dawah scene is either directly or inadvertently aware of this as the Quran is the basis of Dawah, not the hadiths. Almost all of the revert channels and clips have people discussing coming to Islam after reading the Quran, not Bukhari and Muslim.
2. The intellectual or philosophical convert - these people primarily go to Sufism and are generally perennially inclined anyway; Guenon and Abdal Hakim Murad are the most well-known examples, though several content creators fit this bill. The alignment to the mystical elements of religion keeps these people out of orthodoxy and literalism.
3. The existential crisis convert - these are the absolute minority of a minority who go right to the conservative end of Islam; most people do not even touch upon strict Orthodox Sunnism, but a few go right into Salafism - I don't believe that anyone can make that kind of leap without there being a substantial trigger. (also, why are they always ginger?.)
- Speaking as a British man, I would be surprised if you could even convince 99.9% of Brits to give up their cocker spaniel and music, let alone commit to a lifestyle of strict rules based on a culture that is entirely extraneous to our Way of Being.
You can be a Muslim and still do harram things, if you go to a any Muslim country it's not some strict puritanical place. It's normal but with athan and a few people praying 5 times a day
@barryirlandi4217 maybe, but you still have to submit to the hadiths and scholars' decisions about what is permissible and impermissible, which means you have to believe intrinsically that music is haram, even if you still listen or play - that is the crucial difference - the complete disregarding of one's own opinions on matters already decided.
I believe when our daees starting speaking English from the likes of Ahmad Deedat, may Allah reward him, it was a catalyst for westerners to open their eyes to Islam. Islam was always seen as an Arab or `the other' religion even thought most of the prophets came from the Middle East! Of course all of this by the will of Allah swt.
Question, what are the five most important books about Islam ? Thank you all in advance
To whom, regarding what?
I am quiet interested in seeing the data and actual #, I am a westerner, and I lived in many countries, for some reasons I have never heard of these claims about the popularity of islam in Canada, the US and Europe.
Great topic and content. Can do with the heee, heee, hee, … Signing off. 😞
Mr Paul would you be so kind as to have an analytical look at life and works of Ali Hajveri(r.a.)-one of the most celebrated Sufi mentors particularly 'Kashf-al-Mehjoob' a textbook for all Sufi schools!
"Jesus" did not intend to establish a new religion. He never used or heard the words Christian or Christianity or any equivalent of either.
In the opening chapters of Acts we find two addresses by Peter, one delivered to the disciples when an apostle to succeed Judas Iscariot was to be chosen, and the other to the Jews on the day of Pentecost. On neither occasion did the speaker mention a new religion, or a church open to Gentiles as well as to Jews, or an abandonment of the Mosaic law.
If these ideas had been in his mind at that time, he could not have omitted some reference to them. That the apostles and disciples in Jerusalem continue for at least eighteen years to comply with the requirements of the Mosaic law is proved by the epistle of Paul and also by Acts.
In the latter book we read that at time not specified, probably not earlier than 40 C.E Peter went to Joppa and there ate with Gentiles-^that i he violated the Pharisaic interpretation of one of the Mosaic ceremonial rules-and after his return to Jesus; then, he was called to account by his fellow disciple He justified his conduct, not on the ground that Jesus had abrogated the ceremonial law of Moses, or any part of it, but that in a dream he had received a divine communication telling him that all manner of beasts, fowls, an creeping things were clean, and that it was lawful for him to keep company with Gentiles, who were " unclean under the law of Moses. This announcement was accepted as authoritative, but with much surprise, " becaus that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost."'
This statement of the revelation to Peter, and of it acceptance by the disciples in Jerusalem, is doubtless a invention of the author of Acts. It cannot be brought into harmony with later passages of his own book, nor with the statements of Paul, who is our only trustworth; witness in these matters.
According to Acts, about 51 C. E. a council was held in Jerusalem to put an end to the dissension which had arisen in the church on the questions of circumcision and unclean meats. This council decided in favor of Paul, who was in attendance and the decision as given in a letter addressed not to all Christians but only to " the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia"-where Paul had been making converts, informing them that they were not required to observe the Mosaic ceremonial law. It is quite clear that no such council would have been held if the matter had been decided ten years before, as Acts says it had been.
But this account of the council of 51 C. E. is also a fiction.
About eight years later Paul went to Jerusalem again, and his appearance there provoked a riot. The mob wanted to kill him because of his hostility to the Mosaic law, and this mob included Jewish Christians as well as Jews. All the Christians in Jerusalem were zealous adherents of the Mosaic law. Some of the leading brethren, presumably apostles, advised Paul to take a false oath that he did not teach his Jewish converts to neglect the law. And, if we can believe Acts, he took that oath. This, however, did not pacify the mob, which would have put him to death if the Roman soldiers had not protected him. They took him to prison and finally to Rome. This story in Acts implies that the apostolic church adopted one rule of discipline for the Gentile and another for the Jewish Christians; that the latter were, and that the former were not, required to comply with the Mosaic ceremonial law. This duplicity of discipline is not recorded elsewhere. It is not known to Paul ; and if it had existed, he could neither have been ignorant of it nor remained silent about it. He tells us that the twelve apostles in Jerusalem, or those of them known to him, favored strict adherence to Moses; and the only way in which he could get along harmoniously with them was by promising to do no missionary work in Judea. He was to labor among the Gentiles,
Trinitarians are inoculated from rationality, facts and logic. It is no surprise that basic reasoning is entirely lost on those that believe that the creator became one of those he created in order to save the created from his own self. Not to mention the incoherence in the scripture, never minding the creed itself.
Matthew 4:1) Jesus was tempted
[James 1:13) God cannot be tempted
(John 1:29) Jesus was seen
(1 John 4:12) No man has ever seen God
(Acts 2:22) Jesus was and is a man, sent by God
(Numbers 23:19, Hosea 11:9) God is not a man
(Hebrews 5:8-9) Jesus had to grow and learn
(Isaiah 40:28) God doesn't ever need to learn
(1 Corinthians 15: 3-4) Jesus Died
(1 Timothy 1:17) God cannot die
(Hebrews 5:7) Jesus needed salvation
(Luke 1:37) God doesn't need salvation
(Mark 4:38) Jesus slept
(Psalm 121: 2-4) God doesn't sleep
(John 5:19) Jesus wasn't all powerful
(Isaiah 45: 5-7) God is all powerful
(Mark 13:32) Jesus wasn't all knowing
(Isaiah 46:9) God is all knowing
Older one is no different, Abijah was a wicked king, and had war with his rival (1. Kings 15:3).
2 Chronicles 13:3 says that Abjiah was pious ; that he took the field with 400,000 men against Jeroboam, who was at the head of 800,000 men ; and in a great battle the King of Israel was defeated, and 500,000 of his men slain.
It seems that, 1,200,000 soldiers sent into the field at one time by two small tribes, and the destruction of 500,000 men in one battle, were beneath the notice of the author of Kings.
How can one beieve that the One that decrees that which is a 'sin' and that which is good "die for their sins" ? He is the One who decreed it thus, can decree it not so. To whom does the One with whom final authority resides in sacrifice for? a registrar? - No. None are greater than He.
Rationality was only born with Islam, those who cannot count have nothing to say, at the end of the day 1+1+1 will never equal 1
God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
Muslims are more Christian than the Christians.
Based on Sheikh Al-Sueidi’s slide on “Reasons for Guidance in the Qur’an,” does that mean it’s basically a waste of time to do da’wah with arrogant, entitled people, liars, and oppressors?
No, you should not judge a person whom you give dawah to, because u probably dont know them. You should give dawah and let Allah do the rest. Only Allah knows what is in their heart, and only he knows whom to guide.
Surah Al-Imran Aya 49, of the Quran states that jesus was sent to the israelites, although written over 1,300 years ago in the 19th century (same century bible was only transtalted into Arabic in as well) they came to the same conclusion, He never used or heard the words Christian or Christianity or any equivalent of either.
Paul had neither met nor seen Jesus, his relation to the twelve apostles was one of decided independence and even of opposition. He acknowledged no subordination to them. He addressed no doctrinal epistle to them or their churches, and received none from them. He made no reports to them. He did not correspond with them regularly. They never invited him to preach to their congregations and he never invited them to address his converts. He declared that he did not owe his conversion, his baptism, or his doctrine to the twelve, and that he never spent any long time in Jerusalem or in Judea as a Christian missionary. He claimed to be an apostle by a secret divine commission, but the twelve never admitted the validity of his claim. They never gave him the title of apostle; they never said anything indicative of willingness to admit him into their councils. Vacancies occurred in their number, but they never chose him to a vacant place, rather we have statements of Peter with regards to Paul which show nothing but animosity:
"And if our Jesus appeared to you also and became known in a vision and met you as angry with an enemy [recall: Paul had his vision while still persecuting the Christians: Acts 9], yet he has spoken only through visions and dreams or through external revelations. But can anyone be made competent to teach through a vision? And if your opinion is that that is possible, why then did our teacher spend a whole year with us who were awake? How can we believe you even if he has appeared to you?… But if you were visited by him for the space of an hour and were instructed by him and thereby have become an apostle, then proclaim his words, expound what he has taught, be a friend to his apostles and do not contend with me, who am his confidant; for you have in hostility withstood me, who am a firm rock, the foundation stone of the Church"
-Homily 17 Section XIX
On the pauline credo currently called trinitanity Peter said
"For some from among the Gentiles have rejected my lawful preaching and have preferred a lawless and absurd doctrine to the man who is my enemy. And indeed some have attempted, while I am still alive, to distort my words by interpretations of many sorts, as if I taught the dissolution of the law… But that may God forbid ! For to do such a thing means to act contrary to the Law of God which was made to Moses and was confirmed by our Lord in its everlasting continuance. For he said, “The heaven and the earth will pass away, but not one jot or one tittle shall pass away from the Law.”
-Letter of Peter to James, 2.3-5
Soon after Jesus had selected his twelve apostles, according to Luke, he
" gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. And he said unto them: 'Take nothing for your journey, neither staves nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. And whatsoever house ye enter, there abide and thence depart. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
This is the entire charge of Jesus to his apostles when he sent them out to convert the world, as reported by Luke, who claims to give the address or a portion of it, and that presumably the most important portion, word for word. The language here attributed to Jesus conveys no idea that he had any purpose of founding a new church. Neither here nor anywhere else, in the language attributed to him in the New Testament, does he explain the phrase " the kingdom of God " to mean a new ecclesiastical organization. In several passages he does use it to signify the celestial dominion after the destruction of the world; and this is therefore presumably its meaning everywhere.
The gospel of Matthew is much further than that of Luke in its report of the charge of Jesus to his apostles: "These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying: 'Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.", "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I am come not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother... He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward."
This charge, as reported by Matthew omitted nearly all the main ideas that would have been appropriate in an address instructing the twelve to preach the foundation of Christianity. It does not say whether Jesus wished to reform or to supersede Judaism; whether his principal purpose was ecclesiastical, moral, political, or sanitary. The remarks about healing the sick and casting out devils is the most explicit of all the instructions.
Certainly no reader can learn from that charge that Jesus intended to establish a new religion; and much less can he learn any feature of the faith or discipline of a projected new church. And this address is that portion of the New Testament where such information should be given most clearly. He made no doctrinal definition and no ecclesiastical organization. He did not use the key words of the original doctrines necessary to Christianity or a new church, nor the keywords of ideas afterwards associated with Christianity, such as Incarnation, Trinity, Immaculate Conception, and Transubstantiation.
The subjects to which the most space or most prominence is given in the sayings attributed, in the gospels, to Jesus, are, First, the Mosaic law; Second, judgment day; Third, faith; Fourth, the sins of the Pharisees; Fifth, ascetic morality; and Sixth, his divine commission.
Christendom was always an empirial religion, born under the auspices of constantine, the subjects were converted at the edge of the sword and rendered into slaves for his majesty, often referring to him as their lord. In Islam such slavery is unthinkable. The only lordship is that of the creator, no station into which man was brought into the lands of Islam was to any degree as bad as the repugnant chattel slavery brought by the primitive tribalism inherent in their texts. Constantine chose regularly to refer to himself as the “servant of God” (famulus dei/therapon tou theou) in official writings. By the fifth century, this metaphor of subordination had been redeployed from theological to political contexts as the subjects of the emperor came to refer to themselves as “slaves of the emperor.” And by the sixth, Justinian insisted all his officials swear an oath that they would demonstrate their service to the emperor “with genuine slavehood” (gnesia douleia) building on Paul’s revalorization of the vocabulary of slavery, and particularly the word doulos came to be applied to a variety of hierarchical relationships, even as it also continued to be used specifically of chattel slaves. By the middle Byzantine period, this expansion of the semantic range of the root doul- eventually gave the abstract nominal form douleia, meaning laborer.
Triune nonsense is straight out of the Roman Pantheon. Hercules, anyone? Cerberus? The trinity of Zeus, Athena Apollo, literally called the Triune. Greek goddess Hecate was portrayed in triplicate, a three-in-one. This was all done to make the creed more digestible, followed by mental gymnastics attempting to reconcile the onsensical with elaborate theories. Why doesn't a square peg fit into a round hole? Answer by saying it's a mystery instead of geometries not lining up. No such thing as the bible, the new testament is a concoction of several books that were deemed canonical, books written in Greek that were given the hellenized names of Apotsles who neither wrote, nor spoke greek to give it an illusion of antiquity, much like the calendar we have today, which was established in the year 535 CE by Dionysus Exegesis so too was the original message altered to that of the pauline credo, a digestible religion to the yet to be converted greeks who had no desire to follow the mosaic laws.
There never was such another epidemic of ecclesiastical forgery. The church was flooded with books attributed falsely to apostolic times and authors. The names of many of these books, and the texts of some, are preserved. Distinguished saints and learned fathers of the faith openly commended the invention and acceptance of false- hoods designed to aid the conversion of the world to what they believed to be truth.
None of the disciples spoke of trinity, ate pork or proclaimed it is allowable to do so, yet the miracle begotten paul, whom peter called him enemy, introduced his new creed according to his whims It proclaimed the abrogation of the Mosaic ceremonial law. It announced itself as a new and independent religion; calling its adherents Christians, and their doctrine Christianity.
Rationality was only born with Islam, those who cannot count have nothing to say, at the end of the day 1+1+1 will never equal 1
God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.
A few thoughts from an old ex North London boy in his seventies.
I have witnessed the downfall of the UK, the breakdown of society, one thing that preserved it in many ways was the church, rather like salt as a preservative
I don't think many people had deep religious faith but more of a t4aditonal and cultural view.
Well the west and thr UK have gone mad since them, we now have minorities running the show, people ashamed of being British and of course a totally messed up view of gender and what a woman is.
Can Islam expand in the UK when clearly the place has become so far removed from spiritual teaching ofcany description.
I think there are four verses in the Qur'an that say what I believe in a nut.
Say Allah who is one
Allah the eternal refuge
Allah was neither born nor gives birth
Allah has no equivalent, no superiors.
Sura 112
What Paul just said about that funeral. It was the same in Hinduism in the olden days. The living wife was burnt alive with the body of the husband. May be still happens in some remote areas of India.
Yes in 2016 a woman was forced to burnt alive (sati) after her husband death
Türkish subtitle please
😂😂😂 urdu sub title please
I don't see the link to the UA-cam channel of the guest. Please share it
its in the description
I don't know when I will watch this, but was it mentioned which dawah is the most effective? Street dawah, online dawah etc?
@@aar8808 sunday dawah then you can sing your heart out
great discussion
Why Islam is Gaining...The Western pursuit of happiness through consumption has indeed fueled over-consumerism, contributing significantly to environmental degradation and climate change. Islamic principles of moderation and stewardship offer an alternative approach that prioritizes sustainability and mindful use of resources. As environmental awareness grows, integrating these values across cultures may be crucial to building a sustainable future for all.
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Really!
Al biruni also wrote indian subcontinent
Thank you for picking up the subject of scripture based dawa: I'm german and was very upset by the approach on contradictions in the bible:
Even practicing christians are not used to flick through the scripture like this, let alone the religious education they recieved for many years.
(The only ones used to that might be Jehovas Witnesses or Mormons, because they too, use this method for proselytizing - and that's why they are not very popular amongst people).
So: Not a very good approach, especially not for the first contact.
(This might be an approach for the secular population or those who already have left the churches).
The books available on islam of noneuropean authors are often translated in a way which doesn't fit the way we are used to get information from:
Far too flowery in the praise of islam instead of appearing more neutral, factual and patient to the new reader: Why not stick to abbreviations first in the praise of God (swt), the prophet Mohammed (pbuh) and the sahaba (as)?
Less black and white painting (what to do/ what not to do without any deeper information why this is so crucial to the muslim faith).
Why being so shy about relating to christian beliefs in order to explain common and different parts of faith?
I missed appreciation of the christian faith with the bible being the previously revealed scripture to the qu'ran: Most muslims I know have never touched it and don't like to have it in their homes as if it was something harmful.
As far as I know are all of the scriptures considered worth knowing.
And I was showered with prejudices about christian faith which I never heard of before!
Yes, that happens to all of us, but please acknowledge this to be a deal on both sides - we all lack knowledge about the other - and please consider some tolerance of ambiguity, too!
I think myself as muslim now even if I am still at the beginning of my way in islam - but it wasn't that easy to get there.
The communities in the mosques are often small, much smaller than they seem to be in the Commonwealth, rarely mixed communities and teachings about islam are often mixed with extremism in Germany.
Therefor a special thank you to Paul for enlarging my access to islam and feeling understood as a revert.
And thank you for your guest, the brother from sweden to take up the subject whilst having been through something like this before.
May Allah reward you for your good deeds!
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Muslim immigrants are increasing in number, Palestinian now in majority in Lebanon.
Wait isn't this good Shiekh the nephew of the Swedish king? I just started the video just in case you mentioned this.
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MashaAllah
Islam is the only one proper religion
It's 100% from the Creator, Allah
Brits are champion in this statistics, no?
Definitely gaining popularity. That's why Americans have elected a president who would like to ban Muslims from America and the mood in Europe isn't much different.
One thing for you, sir. Educate yourself.
@firmansyahwibowo It's similar to the Cold War. There were Americans and Europeans who became Communists. There was a Communist Party of the USA. But that wasn't the mainstream. That was people who wanted to be opposite the mainstream.
"why Americans have elected a president who would like to ban Muslims"
not true. islam was nt a topic at all in this election cycle. nobody voted for trump because he hates moslems, why? because he did nt mention islam or moslems once in the entire election campaign. he constantly talked about immigrants from south america however, like a million times.
@@JacobStein1960what is mainstream nowadays, and where?
@@pieeater1862 Well, what sort of immigration policies do Western countries have regarding Muslims and how have those policies changed over the past 15 years? Many governments look at Sweden as a cautionary tale.