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hello Heroes today we are beginning
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series two in the lecture series the
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title of the Le of the series is the
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rise of Islam and the Middle Ages
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lecture one within series two is what
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we're going to talk about today it's the
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rise of Islam and the
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church you can see your required or
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guided readings as well as supplemental
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readings for the devotional I would like
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to share from
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Deuteronomy
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18:
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15-19 and I asked the question who is
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the prophet listen now to Deuteronomy
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18 the Lord your God will raise up for
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you a prophet like me that is Moses from
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among you from your fellow
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Israelites you must listen to him for
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this is what you asked of the Lord your
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God at Horeb on the day of the assembly
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when you said let us not hear the voice
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of the Lord nor see his great fire
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anymore or we will die the Lord said to
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me what they say is good I will raise up
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for them a prophet like you from among
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their fellow Israelites and I will put
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my words in his mouth he will tell them
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everything I command him I myself will
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call to account anyone who does not
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listen to my words that the prophet
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speaks in my name that's the end of the
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reading from
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Deuteronomy Muslims believe that
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Muhammad was the prophet Moses
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prophesied In this passage we know it's
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not true because he was while sutic he
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was Arabic not
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Hebrew and also Christian know
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Christians know that Jesus is the
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prophet the priest and the King Muhammad
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is in his tomb in Mecca and I'll have an
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image of that a little later Jesus is
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not in his tomb because he bodily rose
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from the dead and just a word I will be
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only having that one picture of uh the
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tomb of Muhammad out of respect to a
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teaching of Islam where they prefer not
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to have images of people's faces
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so just to be on the safe side I have
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only one image in this lecture it is
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doubtful that any other non-Christian or
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world religion has affected the
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Christian faith or the church more than
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Muhammad and his followers in this
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lecture we will look at the founder his
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book and his teachings we will also look
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at the history of Islam from its
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Beginnings until it sweeps through many
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lands and conquer in with the sword we
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will look at how the church responded
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and was affected by Islam while this is
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neither a world history class nor an
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apologetics nor an evangelism class to
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reach Muslims there are elements of all
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three in this lecture based on how the
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student chooses to use this information
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it is always helpful to understand
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another person's worldview and
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respectfully ask question questions
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about it when such understanding and
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dialogue is combined with genuine
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service individuals are often open to
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learning about the true Isa that is the
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konic or Arabic word for Jesus of the
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inels which is the gospels or the entire
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New
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Testament in Arabic Andor the mother
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tongue in Canada southern Asia and
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elsewhere where second English as a
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second language courses are
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taught in southern Asia after a
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catastrophic earthquake when
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missionaries friends of mine raced back
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to coordinate Aid a previous hostile
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Imam said listen to these people they
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are the only ones from the outside who
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care about us it is also important for
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us to know what we believe which is one
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purpose of this course now now let's
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look at
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Islam unless otherwise noted the general
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information is from
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Wikipedia the founder his name is
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Muhammad we will look at his early years
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first a man named Muhammad which is the
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accepted English spelling I might move
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it around in the written part of the
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lecture was a historical person like
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Jesus was Muhammad was born in
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approximately 80
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570 in Mecca which is on the Arabian
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Peninsula which is now the country of
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Saudi Arabia his name means
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praiseworthy he was orphaned by the age
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of six and was raised by his grandfather
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and
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Uncle when I think of Muhammad I think
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of one of the wh ifs of history and I
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have several in mind but this is the one
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I will share with you today what if
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Muhammad had not learned about the birth
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of Jesus from a group with a heretical
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view on the subject there was a group or
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sect around the edge of the Arabian
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Peninsula that taught a heretical view
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about how Jesus was
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conceived that led Muhammad's teaching
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that Muslims every time they pray say
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God neither begets nor is he
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begotten so what might have happened if
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this group had influenced Muhammad if
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they had told him that the Christian
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faith is a relationship rather than a
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religion or a bunch of Dos and
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dots it's not hard to think of some of
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the what ifs of history but I'm going to
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press on with this lecture Muhammad had
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re religious
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experiences he reported being visited by
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Gabriel the angel in a cave and
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receiving his first revelation from God
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in 613 Muhammad started preaching these
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re Revelations publicly proclaiming that
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God is one that completes submission or
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Islam to God Allah is the right way of
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life pronounced Dean in the Arabic and
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that he was a prophet and messenger of
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God similar to the other prophets in
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Islam the revelations called ayat that
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Muhammad reported receiving until his
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death for formed the verses of the Quran
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regarded by Muslims as the
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verbatim word for word word of God on
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which the religion is based besides the
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Quran Muhammad's teachings and practices
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called sunna found and transmitted
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reports called Hadith and in his
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biography sir are also upheld and used
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as sources of Islamic law Muslims say
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that Muhammad received the words of the
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Quran from the angel Gabriel by way of
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dictation and that he wrote them down in
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this and some other ways Islam has
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similarities with
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Mormonism Joseph Smith claimed to have
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received the Book of Mormon through
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golden tablets provided by a man named
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Moroni who after his death somehow
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became an angel in our day some Muslim
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nations have signed the Abraham Accords
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with Israel and the United States but
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some Muslims greatly oppose Israel it is
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a little known fact that Muhammad was
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helped by Jews in another city on the
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Arabian Peninsula called Medina Muhammad
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had to flee from Mecca to Medina at a
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later time he would attack these Jews
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even though he called them and
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Christians people of the book so there
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are various teachings about Judaism and
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Christianity in the Quan and other
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Islamic writings eventually Muhammad
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would set out to conquer with people
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either converting or being killed the
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early Muslim
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conquests called futu hat Al
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Islam also known as the Arab conquests
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were initiated in the 7th Century by
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Muhammad between AD
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622 and his death in
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632 he conquered most of the Arabian
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Peninsula Muhammad died on June 8th
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632 he is in his grave and I'll show you
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the image later that attracts many
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people every day in Mecca it is their
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Hodge or pilgrimage and I will get to
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that when I share with you the five
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pillars of Islam but I turn now to the
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book The Quran there is a gladle stop
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after the r because of the Arabic
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pronunciation though I might not do it
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every time because I'm not that good
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with languages Wikipedia says the
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following about the claims Muslims make
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to the about the Quran quote Muslims
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believe the Quran was orally revealed by
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God to the final Islamic Prophet
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Muhammad though the angel through the
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angel Gabriel Inc
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incrementally over a period of 23 years
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beginning on the night of power when
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Muhammad was 40 and concluding in
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632 Muslims regard the Quran as
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Muhammad's most important Miracle a
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proof of his prophethood and the
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culmination of a series of divine
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messages starting with those revealed to
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the first Islamic Prophet Adam including
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the Islamic holy books of the Torah
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Psalms what we call the old test
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and gospel or the entire New Testament
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close quote like what the King James
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version of the Bible is to the English
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language and Martin Luther's translation
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of the Bible into German the Quran is
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said to be the best in Arabic literature
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and has influenced the Arabic
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language however there are three
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considerations when it comes to the
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Arabic of the Quran according to
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Wikipedia quote translation of the Quran
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from Arabic into other languages has
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always been a difficult issue in Islamic
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theology because Muslims rever the Quran
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as miraculous and IM
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inimitable
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alquran it cannot be changed in other
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words they argue that the quranic text
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should not be isolated from its true
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language or written form at least not
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without keeping the Arabic text with it
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having an
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Interlinear Quran if you will According
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to Islamic theology the Quran is a
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revelation very specifically in Arabic
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and so it should only be recited in
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konic Arabic translations into other
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languages are the work of humans and so
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according to Muslims no longer possess
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the uniquely sacred character of the
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Arabic original since these translations
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subtly change the meaning they are often
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called
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interpretations or translations of the
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meanings close quote but like all other
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languages there are significant
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developments over the centuries for
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instance I have a great deal of
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difficulty understanding the late 14th
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century of English of Jeffrey Cher's the
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canterberry tales even when the King
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James version was published in
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1611 people in Britain were developing
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beyond the English of that beautiful
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literary text in our day The Message
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Bible is a dynamic equivalent
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translation for late 20th and early 21st
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century American English which reminds
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me of that line
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in My Fair Lady the movie when the
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professor says why in America they
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haven't spoken English for years but
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that has to do with the development of
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language requiring people to read the
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Quran in early 7th Century Arabic would
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be a bit like requiring people to read
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the Old Testament in ancient Hebrew and
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the New Testament in first century Greek
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the second consideration is that there
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are some variant in the quranic text
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while good critical criticism textual
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criticism or examination of texts over
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the years makes it possible to have
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reliable Bible passages and books having
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variance reconciled in a smooth
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translation Islamic scholars are between
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a rock and a hard place because they
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claim that the Arabic of the Quran was
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received from an angel and is not to be
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changed having variance cause
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significant
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difficulties let's look at the structure
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of the Quran as the Bible has chapters
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and verses that were added after to the
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writings themselves except for the
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Psalms the Quran consists of 114
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chapters of varying lengths known as
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Surah each Surah consists of verses
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known as aat or a aate which originally
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means a sign or evidence sent by God
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close quote let's look now at the
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teachings of the main group of
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Islam there are the five pillars and
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here are the Arabic words followed by
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the
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translation the first pillar is the
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shahada or Declaration of Faith the
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shahada also transliterated as
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Shaha is an Islamic oath and Creed and
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one of the five pillars of Islam and
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part of the
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Adan it reads I bear witness that there
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was no no deity but God and I bear
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witness that Muhammad is the messenger
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of God that shahada declares belief in
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the Wess Ted of God and the acceptance
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of Muhammad as God's
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messenger some Muslims also include a
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statement Shia Muslims include a
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statement of belief in the will aat of
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Ali but they do not consider it as an
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obligatory part for converting to Islam
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so a single honest recitation of the
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shahada is all that is required for a
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person to become a Muslim according to
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most traditional schools now I have not
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become a Muslim by reciting it I am
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simply providing it as historical and
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current information to you the second
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pillar is Salah or prayer it is the
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principal form of worship in Islam
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Muslims face Mecca and it consists of
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units called
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raaka specific set movements that you
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might have seen videos of during which
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the Quran is recited and prayers from
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the sunna are typically said the number
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of raaka verse varies from prayer to
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prayer Minor Details of Performing Salah
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May differ according to the mahab or
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School of Islamic jurist Prudence of the
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person performing it it the third pillar
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is zakat or AMS giving zakat is the
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Arabic word for giving to charity or
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giving to the needy zakat is a form of
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almsgiving often collected by the Muslim
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um by the people as they gather to
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worship it is considered in Islam a
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religious
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obligation and by konic rank King is
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next after prayer and
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importance eight heads of zakat are
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mentioned in the Quran but I'm not going
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to list all of those you can look them
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up if you wish wish there is the next
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pillar is s which is fasting it is the
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practice of abstaining usually from food
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drink sexual activity and anything which
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substitutes food and drink during the
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holy month of Ramadan which changes a
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little bit each
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year there is uh the month of Ramadan
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Psalm is observed between Dawn and
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sunset when the Adon of the mrie prayer
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is sounded Ramadan is in the ninth month
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of the Muslim lunar calendar and fasting
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is a requirement for practicing Muslims
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as it is the fourth of the five pillars
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of Islam and if you think about it when
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the fasting month of Ramadan comes
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during the summer you have have long
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days and if you're in a hot area it's
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really hard to go without
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water the fourth of the five pillars of
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Islam is the Hajj or
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[Music]
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pilgrimage is it's an annual Islamic
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pilgrimage to Mecca where Muhammad is
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buried in Saudi Arabia it's the hoest
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city for
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Muslims Hajj is a mandatory religious
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Duty for Muslims that must be carried
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out at least once in their lifetime by
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all adult Muslims who are physically and
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financially capable of undertaking the
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journey and of supporting their family
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during their absence from home here is
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an image of pilgrims around Muhammad's
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grave in your lecture notes you can see
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the Five Pillars of what are called the
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twers they anticipate the 12th Imam to
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bring in the end of the world and there
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are 10 ancillaries 10 more but because
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sunnis are Far and Away the largest
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Muslim group and this is not an
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exhaustive world religion course I'm not
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going to go into them or the Seven
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Pillars of the
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ismaelis there is as far as uh teaching
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with regard to the Quran a word called
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abrogation it has to do with several
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forms of revision of various
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teachings most important is that the
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later the text in the Quran the more
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abrogated are some earlier verses on the
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same subject the reason this is
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important is that the later part of the
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Quran is more
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militant there is some controversy over
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abreg
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abrogation can also occur by action of
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later councils but they are not allowed
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to change the central tenants of Islam
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in abreg there is yet another similarity
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to Mormonism because the head of the
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Mormon Church also called a prophet can
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change various
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teachings here is what the Quran teaches
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about God Islam is the simplistic as
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opposed to the complex Trinity
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monotheistic religion there is one God
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and that's that here is what is Quran
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teaches about Jesus Islam teaches there
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is no God but God Allah which was the
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name of the Moon God before Islam though
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a wickliff Bible translator friend told
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me that the English word God is from the
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Germanic German word goat which means
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goat and had to do with the goat God so
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uh you have different combinations over
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the years they teach that God neither
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begets nor is he begotten that has to do
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with the false information Muhammad
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learned that I told you about
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earlier and John 3:16 these days is more
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often translated God's one and only son
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or as I may have mentioned in the
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previous lecture one can temporary
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translation in one Muslim people group
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translates it God's favorite son because
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of the unique meaning of that phrase the
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following is from
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islamqa.org in other words questions and
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answers so it's kind of like the Mormon
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official website where they give
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official answers to people with
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questions in this case about Islam the
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true belief of Muslim teachings
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regarding
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as Jesus in accordance to the Creed of a
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Jama is that he was not killed or
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crucified instead he was lifted bodily
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into Heaven by Allah hence he is in the
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heaven now and is in the state of a
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human being in other words not God about
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this incident the following verse States
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and for the saying in boast we killed
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Messiah Jesus the son of Mary the
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messenger of Allah but they killed him
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not nor crucified him only a likeness of
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that was shown to them and those who
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differ therein are full of Doubt with no
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certain knowledge but only follow mere
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conjecture for of assurity they killed
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him not but Allah lifted him up to
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himself and Allah is Almighty always
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wise and there is none of the people of
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the book but will believe in him before
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his death and on the day of judgment he
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will be a witness against them and again
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this is completely contrary to the true
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written word of the New Testament and
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then there is this from the same website
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about Jesus's return Allah said and
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there is none of the people of the book
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but will believe in him before his death
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and on the day of judgment he will be a
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witness against them this refers to the
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time when Prophet Jesus Will descend to
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the Earth before the day of judgment and
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kill the swine break the cross impose
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the jiza which is tax and will not
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accept any religion except Islam we as
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Muslims also believe that Prophet Isa
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Jesus will return to the Earth as a
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human being he will return just as he
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was taken up from the earth and will go
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after the Antichrist D to slay him he
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will then rule with Justice and fairness
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in accordance to the teaching te ings of
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Islam so Muslim believe Jesus will
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return but the details and outcomes are
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very
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different here's what is taught about
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the Old and New Testament they are
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called the ancient
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writings Wikipedia says quote the Quran
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states that several prior writings
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constitute holy books given by God to
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the prophets and Messengers among the
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children of Israel in the same way the
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Quran was revealed to Muhammad these
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include the tat the Torah believed by
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Muslims to have been given by God to the
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prophets and Messengers among the
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children of Israel the zabor used in
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reference to the Psalms revealed to
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David daud and the inel revealed to
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Jesus if I have time later in the
00:24:51
lecture I will share with you about my
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friend who when I got to him um the
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Psalms and I think it was the Proverbs
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especially of Solomon he was he just
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loved reading them in his mother
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tongue and the inel refer
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revealed Jesus the Islamic methodology
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of tapir refers to interpreting the
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Quran with or Through the Bible the
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approach adopts the canonic Arabic
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versions of the Bible including the
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Torah and gospel both to illuminate and
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to add exegetical depth to the reading
00:25:38
to the Quran knowable Muslim
00:25:41
commentaries mufas serun of the Bible
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and Quran who weave biblical texts
00:25:47
together with quranic ones include Abu
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alaban abdal Salam bin Al isil of
00:25:56
andalas and Ibraham Umar bin Hassan
00:26:00
Al about Muhammad Muslims call him the
00:26:04
prophet and you will recall the
00:26:06
devotional about Deuteronomy 18 the
00:26:10
Islamic statement of faith says and
00:26:12
Muhammad is his Prophet there are many
00:26:15
verses about Muhammad in the Quran some
00:26:18
of which do not line up with reports
00:26:20
about his actual life about Abraham's
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sons Isaac and Ishmael Muslims believe
00:26:27
the promise and Covenant came through
00:26:30
Ishmael instead of Isaac which Genesis
00:26:33
actually teaches about Isaac Muslims
00:26:36
believe that Abraham offered Ishmael as
00:26:39
a sacrifice so you can see how Kur the
00:26:42
Quran teaches the opposite or Twisted
00:26:46
teachings from what is in the Bible for
00:26:49
the truth of this matter and its
00:26:51
implications see Paul's writings in
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Galatians 4: 21-31
00:26:59
and you can see the contrast so in
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summary even though God is called
00:27:03
merciful Islam involves legalism and
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works righteousness that you have to
00:27:10
work your way to heaven kind of religion
00:27:14
Jad one sect held this as the sixth
00:27:17
pillar of Islam most Muslims today
00:27:20
follow the teachings of inner moral
00:27:23
struggle but some use it for what is
00:27:26
sometimes condemned by Muslims as
00:27:28
extremism the following summary is from
00:27:31
Wikipedia quote the sense of jihad as
00:27:35
armed resistance was first used in the
00:27:38
context of persecution faced by Muslims
00:27:42
when Muhammad was at Mecca when the
00:27:44
community had two choices further
00:27:47
immigration or War the Quran justifies
00:27:51
war and
00:27:52
self-defense or in response to
00:27:54
aggression towards other Muslims however
00:27:57
the s verses have historically been
00:28:00
interpreted to renounce that is abgate
00:28:03
other verses and justify offensive war
00:28:06
against unbelievers forcibly converting
00:28:09
polytheistic pagans during the early
00:28:12
Muslim conquest and some Christians as
00:28:15
well there was a split between Sunni and
00:28:19
Shia after the death of Muhammad and
00:28:22
this is from
00:28:23
history.com though the two main sects
00:28:26
within Islam Sunni and Shia agree on
00:28:29
most of the fundamental beliefs and
00:28:31
practices of Islam a bitter split
00:28:34
between the two goes back from 14th
00:28:37
centuries some 14 centuries the Divide
00:28:40
originated with a dispute over who
00:28:42
should succeed Pro the prophet Muhammad
00:28:45
as leader of the Islamic faith he
00:28:48
introduced today about 85% of the
00:28:51
approximately 1.6 billion Muslims by
00:28:55
birth around the world are Sunni while
00:28:58
15% are Shia according to an estimate by
00:29:02
the Council on Foreign Relations while
00:29:05
Shia represent the majority of the
00:29:08
populations of in Iran Iraq Bahrain and
00:29:12
aeran and a plurality in Lebanon sunnis
00:29:17
are the majority in more than 40 other
00:29:19
countries from Morocco to Indonesia the
00:29:23
roots of the Sunni Shia divide can be
00:29:26
traced all the way back to the 7th
00:29:28
Century soon after the death of the
00:29:31
Prophet Muhammad in
00:29:33
8632 while most of Muhammad's followers
00:29:36
thought that the other Elite members of
00:29:38
the Islamic community should choose his
00:29:41
successor a smaller group believed only
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someone from Muhammad's family namely
00:29:47
his cousin and son-in-law Ali should
00:29:51
succeed him this group became known as
00:29:54
the followers of Ali in Arabic the shiat
00:29:58
Ali or simply
00:30:00
Shia the essence of the problem is that
00:30:03
Muhammad died without a male Heir and he
00:30:06
never clearly stated who he would want
00:30:09
to be his successor says Leslie Hazelton
00:30:13
author of after the Prophet The Epic
00:30:16
story of the Sunni Shia split in Islam
00:30:20
this was important because by the time
00:30:22
he died Muhammad had basically brought
00:30:24
all the tribes of Arabia together into a
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kind of Federation that became the um
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the people or Nation of
00:30:33
Islam I now turn to a brief
00:30:36
conquering a brief explanation of the
00:30:40
Islamic conquering that took place after
00:30:42
M Muhammad here is what Wikipedia says
00:30:46
quote the spread of Islam spans over
00:30:49
1,400 years the early Muslim Conquest
00:30:53
that occurred after
00:30:55
632 led to the creation of the Cal Fates
00:30:58
conquering a vast geographical area
00:31:01
conversion to Islam was boosted by Arab
00:31:04
Muslim forces conquering vast
00:31:07
territories and building Imperial
00:31:09
structures over time most of the
00:31:12
significant expansion occurred during
00:31:14
the reign of the rashidun rightly guided
00:31:18
cifs or in English it's Rashid there was
00:31:21
a ruler called harun Al Rashid cffs from
00:31:26
632 to 66 61 CE excuse me just 661 ad
00:31:32
which were the first four successors of
00:31:35
Muhammad these early caliphates coupled
00:31:38
with Muslim economics and trading the
00:31:41
Islamic golden age and the age of the
00:31:43
Islamic gunpowder Empires resulted in
00:31:47
Islam spread outwards from Mecca towards
00:31:50
the Indian Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
00:31:53
and the creation of the Muslim world the
00:31:56
Islamic conqu quest which culminated in
00:31:59
the Arab empire being established across
00:32:03
parts of Asia Africa and Europe enriched
00:32:06
the Muslim World achieving the economic
00:32:09
preconditions for the emergence of this
00:32:12
institution owing to the emphasis
00:32:14
attached to Islamic teachings trade
00:32:17
played an important role in this
00:32:21
expansion in some parts of the world
00:32:24
such as
00:32:25
Indonesia during the early centuries of
00:32:28
Islamic rule conversions in the main in
00:32:32
the Middle East were mainly individual
00:32:35
or small scale while Mass conversions
00:32:38
were favored for spreading Islam Beyond
00:32:41
Muslim lands policies within Muslim
00:32:44
territories typically aimed for Islam
00:32:47
for individual conversions to weaken
00:32:50
non-muslim
00:32:52
communities however there were
00:32:54
exceptions like the forced Mass
00:32:56
conversion of the Samaritan
00:32:58
in the holy land when it comes to Europe
00:33:02
there are two dates that are important
00:33:04
in understanding the furthest reach of
00:33:06
Islam Muslims were stopped in Tours
00:33:10
France in
00:33:12
a72 and in
00:33:15
1683 when the Ottoman Empire was stopped
00:33:19
in the Battle of Vienna of Vienna but
00:33:22
that is far beyond the dates of this
00:33:24
lecture series I turn now to the battle
00:33:27
of Tours the Battle of Tours also called
00:33:31
The Battle of potier and the battle of
00:33:33
the highway of the martyrs that's the
00:33:35
Muslim name was fought on October 10th
00:33:39
[Music]
00:33:40
1732 and was an important battle during
00:33:43
the umad invasion of Gaul with Gul
00:33:46
meaning what we call France it resulted
00:33:49
in Victory for the Frankish or French
00:33:52
and aquitanian forces led by Charles
00:33:56
Martell over the invading umad Islamic
00:34:00
forces led by ABD alaman El gaiki
00:34:04
Governor of all
00:34:06
andalo several historians such as Edward
00:34:10
Gibbon who wrote the rise and fall of
00:34:12
the Roman Empire have credited the
00:34:14
Christian victory in the battle as an
00:34:17
important factor in curtailing the
00:34:19
spread of Islam in Western Europe close
00:34:23
quote the long-term implications of the
00:34:26
defeat of Muslims at the tours is seen
00:34:29
in the gradual departure going further
00:34:32
south from France and then mostly from
00:34:35
Spain in Spain Muslims were called Moes
00:34:38
quote the word derives from the Latin
00:34:41
term marus first used by the Romans to
00:34:44
denote an inhabitant of the Roman
00:34:47
province of
00:34:48
morania comprising the western portion
00:34:51
of present day Algeria and the
00:34:54
northeastern portion of present day
00:34:56
Morocco that's britannica.com close
00:35:00
quote there is an extensive monument in
00:35:03
southern Spain group of buildings called
00:35:07
the alhamra after the conclusion of what
00:35:10
is called in Spanish the Christian
00:35:13
Reconquista or reconquering of Spain in
00:35:18
1492 by the Catholics the site became
00:35:21
the Royal Court of Ferdinand and
00:35:24
Isabella where Christopher Columbus
00:35:26
received the Royal endorsement for his
00:35:30
expedition on this in the same year and
00:35:33
the Palaces were partially altered a
00:35:37
woman in Southern California was so
00:35:39
impressed by a book about the alhamra
00:35:42
that she encouraged her husband to name
00:35:44
a new city
00:35:46
alhamra the high school nickname is the
00:35:49
Moors it is just east of Los Angeles and
00:35:53
south of
00:35:55
Pasadena let's look at the church and
00:35:58
Islam what Muhammad taught about
00:36:01
Christians they are called people of the
00:36:03
book meaning the Bible the gospels and
00:36:06
the New Testament are both referred to
00:36:08
as the inel what does the Quran teach
00:36:12
about Christians says the Christians are
00:36:14
nice people but they are misguided about
00:36:17
Jesus and the law which they do not by
00:36:19
their definition keep by definition Jews
00:36:23
and Christians are viewed as
00:36:25
infidels people who Den not believe the
00:36:28
major teachings of
00:36:30
Islam how was the church affected by
00:36:33
Islam during the time of Muhammad there
00:36:36
was not much persecution of Christians
00:36:38
but I have previously shared that M
00:36:41
Muhammad fought against the Jews of
00:36:44
Medina who had taken him in after the
00:36:47
death of Muhammad there was much more
00:36:51
persecution with the Conquering of
00:36:53
various places Christians often had only
00:36:56
two choices become a Muslim or be killed
00:37:01
obviously not all Christians died there
00:37:04
were some rulers who did not press the
00:37:06
two choices but instead allowed to
00:37:10
people to Live and Let Live Until the
00:37:13
past 30 years or so there were
00:37:16
significant pockets of Christian
00:37:18
presence among Muslim dominant countries
00:37:22
those numbers have significantly
00:37:24
declined due to persecution Wars Le
00:37:27
leaving the area and so on Iraq Syria
00:37:31
and The Holy Land are just three
00:37:33
examples when it comes to Muslims in
00:37:36
Asia you will learn more about that in
00:37:38
series two lecture 4 and an ironic twist
00:37:43
that I had not realized until recent
00:37:45
years the spread of Islam in Asia
00:37:49
eventually helped spur exploration over
00:37:51
the seas to the West because traveling
00:37:54
East was blocked by Muslim rulers so
00:37:58
think about that for a while but now in
00:38:01
context in modern context contemporary
00:38:05
context let me tell you about a friend
00:38:07
of mine I will call him Muhammad we met
00:38:11
at my undergraduate University he was in
00:38:14
a graduate
00:38:16
school I engaged him in dialogue I said
00:38:20
would you show me about Alexander the
00:38:22
Great in the Quran and as a trade I will
00:38:26
show you something from one of the inels
00:38:29
so he showed me where Alexander the
00:38:32
Great or isander is in the Quran and I
00:38:36
read to him and I believe he read
00:38:38
quietly along with him the crucifixion
00:38:42
and I believe Resurrection account maybe
00:38:44
just the crucifixion account of Jesus in
00:38:48
The Gospel of John I have never been so
00:38:52
thrilled to
00:38:54
share that story than I was with my
00:38:57
friend Muhammad because I was wondering
00:39:01
if it was the first time he had heard it
00:39:03
it was definitely the first time he had
00:39:05
heard it read by a
00:39:07
Christian and when I told him that I was
00:39:10
going to study in Vienna Austria he said
00:39:14
come visit my family in South Asia and
00:39:18
so I was able to work that out after
00:39:21
Israel I flew to Teran and then to Cabo
00:39:26
where I
00:39:28
uh was for a few days and then I went
00:39:31
through the kyber pass into South more
00:39:33
of South
00:39:35
Asia I went and visited a missionary I
00:39:39
got very sick and he was at a hospital
00:39:41
and I was able to have a prescription
00:39:44
that helped me saved my
00:39:47
life and then he got me hooked up with a
00:39:50
friend of a relative of Muhammad in the
00:39:53
city near the new capital city of his
00:39:57
country
00:39:58
and I played my guitar and sang that
00:40:00
night for him and then the next day he
00:40:03
took me by uh a horse and
00:40:08
buggy and a
00:40:10
bus and a
00:40:13
three-wheeler and then we walked the
00:40:15
last mile to Muhammad's Village I was
00:40:18
the first Caucasian or white or
00:40:20
Christian male to visit there I met his
00:40:24
father uh that evening they had me sing
00:40:27
the guitar and play the guitar and sing
00:40:31
I asked the man I had sung before the
00:40:33
night before which of the songs he would
00:40:36
like me to
00:40:38
sing and he said alelu and I said are
00:40:41
you sure and he said yes and I was
00:40:44
concerned because in that song it says
00:40:47
God said he would send his son hallelu
00:40:51
allelu and you have learned or probably
00:40:54
already knew that it goes strong against
00:40:57
the religion to refer to God the Father
00:41:01
having a son he neither begets nor is he
00:41:04
begotten but I realized three
00:41:08
things Jesus calls me to take the gospel
00:41:12
into the whole
00:41:14
world the group that I was with has a
00:41:18
very strong code of hospitality that
00:41:20
they had already received me under so
00:41:23
they would not break it and also only
00:41:26
about two people and the whole building
00:41:28
spoke English so I turned it into kind
00:41:31
of a young life meeting if you know
00:41:33
about young life it's a Christian group
00:41:35
they sing songs they do a funny skit and
00:41:38
then the leader gives a short talk about
00:41:41
relating Jesus's life to Life as a high
00:41:45
schooler so one time I uh played the
00:41:50
song let my light shine bright through
00:41:53
the night through the day all the way
00:41:56
for you ye yeaw and I had told them
00:41:59
beforehand that if I saw anybody not
00:42:02
singing yeeha I would have them come up
00:42:04
and sing it in front of everybody or do
00:42:07
the Yea and there was one man who yelled
00:42:10
sang the song the loudest and I looked
00:42:12
around and I pointed at him and he was
00:42:15
so proud he stred forward and he led
00:42:18
everybody in the Yea after when a t came
00:42:22
time for me to leave
00:42:25
I exchanged tugs with this man and I
00:42:29
also found out later that he was an
00:42:31
opium Smuggler but I prayed for him and
00:42:34
I continued to pray for him because he
00:42:36
is a leader of people I continue to pray
00:42:39
for my friend Muhammad he was a uh an
00:42:43
academic leader in one of the
00:42:45
universities in South Asia and the
00:42:48
Taliban kidnapped someone of a similar
00:42:53
level of position and so Muhammad
00:42:57
decided to come to the United States
00:42:59
where his daughter and I think also his
00:43:01
son also were and eventually he became
00:43:04
an American citizen as have his children
00:43:07
and I'm so glad for it we haven't talked
00:43:10
in recent years but there was a period
00:43:12
about 10 years ago where we in were in
00:43:15
touch quite a bit and uh so that's a
00:43:18
little bit of the story of my attempts
00:43:21
at friendship evangelism with harun when
00:43:25
he visited me in my home home in
00:43:27
Southern California he did the prayer
00:43:30
that I visit with you he oriented
00:43:32
himself towards where Mecca was he had a
00:43:35
small rug or he used the rug that was in
00:43:38
the room where he was staying and he did
00:43:41
his prayers he just quietly did it and
00:43:43
then at a later time I visited with him
00:43:46
and that's when a relative of his said
00:43:49
to me you know we believe Jesus is
00:43:51
coming back but I've also come to learn
00:43:55
that they view it in a different way but
00:43:57
but you can take that and say can I
00:43:59
share with you what the inel says about
00:44:03
the return of
00:44:05
Jesus and I would like to conclude by
00:44:09
saying as you've heard about me with
00:44:14
Muhammad learning about Islam can help
00:44:17
you understand your Muslim friends it
00:44:20
can help you in asking them informed
00:44:22
questions about their faith and you can
00:44:25
be aware that many Muslims mlims in Iran
00:44:28
refugee camps and many other places have
00:44:31
become disillusioned with Islam and are
00:44:34
open to the reality of the Christian
00:44:36
faith being a relationship with Isa that
00:44:39
is Jesus instead of a bunch of Dos and
00:44:43
does and earlier in my passage I
00:44:45
referred to Muslims in Canada I have
00:44:47
friends who work with them have fun
00:44:50
meetings do English as a second language
00:44:53
I also even saw a picture of them going
00:44:56
camping they had had a canoe and two of
00:44:58
the men wanted to be in the canoe by
00:45:01
themselves and they were told it tips
00:45:03
over really easy but still they went out
00:45:06
and of course it tipped over and they
00:45:08
just laughed so hard but they know that
00:45:11
these Christians love them and they are
00:45:14
sharing the love of Jesus and the truth
00:45:17
of Jesus with them it is about the love
00:45:21
of God not arguing theological points or
00:45:26
legalism
00:45:28
as I kind of did at another time that I
00:45:31
might share with you but anyway go forth
00:45:34
my heroes and have a blessed week amen
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