Month: May 2023

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa presents the idea of universal unity through devotion to God alone, explains how the law of polygamy must not be abused, and describes the vastness of the universe to show how great God is and that God is doing everything.

Video Transcript:

Praise be to God. And I bear witness that there’s only one God, Allah. Looks like the rain is delaying a number of people, so I’m going to start with the less important subjects and give the important subjects to the second khutbah. In this khutbah, I’m going to talk about the subject for the Muslim Perspective that we’ll be preparing inshallah in the next few days. one important subject is I don’t know if it’s a new idea, but it’s an idea called universal unity. And I’m abbreviating it UU, universal unity through devotion to God alone. The idea is that the Protestants are fighting the Catholics in Ireland, the Jews are fighting the Muslims in the Middle East, the Hindus are fighting the Sikhs in India, the Sunnis and Shias are fighting each other in Iran and Iraq. And there is one thing in common among all those people, the Protestants, the Catholics, the Hindus, the Sikhs, the Muslims, the Sunnis, the Shias. This one common bond is belief in God. They all believe in God. So it dawned on me that if we rise above the human factors, if the human race rises above the human factors, such as Jesus, Mary, Muhammad, the saints, and so on, they’ll be united. There’d be no reason to be different. The reason the Sunnis are fighting the Shias is because they reverence human factors. The reason the Protestants are fighting the Catholics is Martin Luther, a human factor. The reason the Mormons are Mormons is Joseph Smith. And so on. So it is these human factors, Muhammad, Jesus, Mary, Joseph Smith, and so on, that cause the differences. If we focus on the one common linkage, that is belief in God, we would have one objective to love, one objective to worship, one and the same.

So this is why I called it universal unity. I finished the video program a couple of days ago. I mean the shooting of it. I’ll be editing it in the next 2 weeks. And then inshallah we’ll be showing it in Washington, DC, and New York, Boston, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the major centers. And the Chicago. We got Chicago also. So the program will emphasize these points of differences and the one point of unity. And I will be asking them to get together with us in promoting universal unity. The complete name is universal unity through devotion to God alone. And by the way, we’re going to change the sign out there. While studying this subject, I realized that you can submit to somebody while hating his guts. So submission is not really a good word. Devotion is a positive word. So we’re going to change the sign make it “Happiness Is Devotion to God Alone”.

This is a product of this a universal unity idea. This is one subject. And we’re I’m going to put this in the Muslim Perspective on the back page. On the front page, I’m going to talk about polygamy, which is a very popular subject. I had a call from New York, Sayyida Ahmed, most of you know her, and they’re having a big problem with New York Muslims abusing the law, God’s law, polygamy. So, I want to start off by saying that we have laws, divine laws in the Quran. Polygamy is one of them. It is God’s law. It is allowed. But, I want to say that when when we abuse God’s law, any of God’s laws, the retribution is really not worth it. The retribution is severe. We can’t cheat ourselves and justify things for ourselves. But, when we look at the subject of polygamy, our example is the Prophet Muhammad. Sometimes they accuse us that we do not follow the example of the Prophet, and this is a lie. But, our example here, a perfect example, is the Prophet Muhammad. He had one wife until she died. For 25 years, he had one wife. All his youth, from the age of 25 to 50. He had only one wife, had all his children from her, except one. And after Khadijah died, he married widows of his friends who had children to give them his name. He had a couple of political marriages that were actually forced on him. Abu Bakr told him, “You have to marry my daughter. You must marry my daughter.” So, he married Aisha. And they lie. They say that he married Aisha when she was nine. Well, even now, when when a girl is born in a family, they they name her her husband to be when she’s still 9 hours old. She’s going to marry, you know, some cousin. So, this is happening now. And this is what happened with Aisha. He did not marry her until she was a mature woman. That was a political marriage. Another political marriage was his friend Omar. Who told him, “You’ve got to marry my daughter Hafsa.” Also, so but his marriages after Khadijah died, were all to alleviate sorrow. So, here is an important criterion for polygamy is that you alleviate sorrow. You do not create sorrow. I’m going to put this in the perspective. So, somebody who who wants to use this law has to be very careful not to abuse it. And he has to use this criterion. Am I creating sorrow or alleviating sorrow? Will there be creation of pain or removal of pain? This is This is one thing. Am I driven by lust? Or am I driven by charitable feelings? We have We are We are very special people who are people who decided to worship God alone and follow his laws. And we have to be the harshest on ourselves. So, I’m going to write this on the front page of the Muslim Perspective. I think these are all the criteria I could think of, but I think we don’t need to say anymore once we think of the the example of the prophet, especially that he was living in a society where polygamy was a way of life.

And every man had 20, 30 wives, 200 wives, depending on how rich he was. That was a way of life in the society. Well, in this society, it is not a way of life. It is even illegal, according to the laws of this country. But it is the law is being abused everywhere. I hear examples from everywhere in the country by by Muslims. And they’re paying dearly because abusing God’s law. When you become a Muslim, you know better. When you know better, the responsibility is is is multiplied many fold, and the retribution is really severe. It’s not worth it. Tubu ila Allah: repent.

The important subject I want to talk about in this khutbah is I was reading the Bible preparing this book about Jesus. And in one place, Jesus told the people, “Your problem is that you do not know God.” And this happens to be the problem right now. People do not know God. So, I’m going to review with you some scientific facts that you already know. Cuz what if we know God, we will understand why every page of the Quran says God alone, worship God alone. And we’ll understand the blasphemy of putting human creatures anywhere near God. We live in something called the solar system. And our sun is 93 million miles away. 93 million miles away. This is 93,000 times as much as from here to New York. 93,000 times. Go to New York and coming back. 93,000 times. That is the how far the sun is from us. The light of the sun takes 4 minutes to reach us. That’s the speed of light. 93 million miles in 4 minutes. The solar system has 12 planets, maybe more that that they haven’t discovered yet. And this the solar the sun and the 12 planets around it occupy a distance that goes to 4 billion miles. Okay, 4,000 millions miles of miles. This is our solar system. Our sun is a star. And in our universe, there are a billion trillion stars. This is stated clearly in the Quran when God says in Surah 40 that the creation of the heavens is a lot more difficult than the creation of the human being. If you can imagine that. But here we have a billion trillion heavenly bodies, no, excuse me, only stars. Because there are uncountable decillions of other heavenly bodies associated with those stars. A billion trillion stars in 1 billion galaxies.

All these are scientific facts. 1 billion galaxies. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way galaxy. And our next door galaxy is 2 million light years away. That’s next door. If you live 2 million years and travel at the speed of light, doing nothing else but traveling at the speed of light, you will go to the next door galaxy in 2 million years. There are a billion of those, billion galaxies. And we learn from Quran that this Now, by the way, it will take you something like 100 billion years to just count them, not create them, just to count the stars. They do it scientifically by taking a picture at random of the sky and counting what’s in the picture and then multiplying by the They calculate the circumference of the of the earth and the visible stars. This is how they But if you count them one to They take 1 second per star to count. It would take you 100 billion years, day and night, without stopping, just to count them. Now, all this we’re taught in Quran is in the smallest and the innermost of seven universes. So, all this vastness is in the smallest universe. Imagine seven balls inside each other. The second universe is bigger. The third is bigger than the two. The third universe, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh. Can you imagine the circumference of the seventh universe? How long is it, the circumference? There is no number that can describe that. We do not have a you know, at the time of the Quran revelation, they didn’t count beyond 1,000. And now, with our computers, we do not have a number that will even if you estimate the differences between the seven universes and being very conservative you still will not have a number that will describe the circumference of the seventh universe in in light years or millions of light years. Infinity would be the closest and most honest description of the circumference of the seventh universe. If you go to the edge of of our solar system the earth will be almost invisible. You have to use very very powerful telescopes in our solar system. If you go to the edge of our galaxy the earth is absolutely invisible. And on this earth walked the man called Jesus or Muhammad. So the people do not know God. They’re unaware of who God is because this infinity the circumference of the seventh universe we’re told in Surah 39 is held within God’s right hand. This allegorical description being withheld within God’s right hand there is to tell us how big God is, how great God is and who God is. Because it is not held within his hands is the difference from holding something like this or like this inside. How much space do you have inside your hand? God is great. And because of this greatness God is capable of treating you as if you’re the only creature in the universe. God has that capability and he does. He’s closer to you personally than your jugular vein. God is great. We cannot understand or encompass the greatness of God. God is capable of treating every ant as if it is the only creature in the universe. Can you imagine the circulatory system of the ant? The heart of the ant does have a heart and it beats. It’s not like our heart, but it does have a heart. It has a circulatory system. And God controls that. As if it is the only creature in the universe. So, when God says in Surah 53 God is the one who makes you happy or miserable. God is the one who makes you rich or poor. And when we raise the new understanding, which is absolutely essential for you to go to heaven. Namely, God is doing everything.

We need to know who God is to understand and appreciate that step. God is doing everything. The only thing we do is choose to be with God or with Satan. This is it. After that, God takes over. And God makes you rich or poor. Happy or miserable. God is doing everything. However, misery comes from Satan. But God in accordance with God’s will. So, the ultimate doer is God and we bring the misery on them on ourselves. We choose to put our finger in the fire or not. So, when it hurts is because we chose to put our finger in the fire and it is God’s law that when you put your finger in the fire, it hurts. So, we bring the pain on ourselves. So, if you have any problem of any kind, you just have to ask yourself why do I have this problem? And you have to dig and find out why and remove the reasons. You have to be honest with yourself.

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa first shares Edip’s discovery that the structure and letter counts of Sura 1 confirm it is the only sura to recite in the Contact Prayers. He then explains how ego led humans and jinns to refuse the second chance that animals, stars and trees accepted, why killing the ego (2:54) is the key to redemption, and reads his letter to the organizers of the Chicago conference on the finality of prophethood.

Video Transcript:

Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Alhamdulillah. We praise God. Wa ashhadu alla elaha illa Allah, wahdahu la sharika lah. And I bear witness that there is no other god besides the one God. This is a very important Khutbah, so I’m going to stall a little bit for the rest of the late ones to be here. This Khutbah is so important that you are definitely a very select group of people who are destined to be here at this time.

But before I say anything, where is Ahmad Baroni? He’s not here yet. You’re his wife? No. Okay. Good for you. He’s going to be here. Okay, just to start, I’m going to share with you Edip’s discovery from last Khutbah, to give a chance to the late ones to be here. It is an awesome discovery, and it tells us that in the Contact Prayers God prescribes Al-Fatiha, Sura number 1, no more and no less.

It confirms what we have been doing for a few years, that is, reciting only Sura number 1. The mathematical evidence that God gave us, and that Edip discovered last week, has to do with the physical structure of Sura number 1 and also its literal composition. Some of you may have missed the miracle last time, so I’m repeating it.

The physical structure is that the sura is number 1, and it has seven verses: one, two, three, four, five, six and seven. This is the physical structure of the sura, and this number is a multiple of 19, just putting the number of the sura and the verses next to each other. Now, you know that the morning prayer is two units, the noon is four, the afternoon is four, the sunset is three, and the night is four.

And this number is a multiple of 19, putting the number of units next to each other. Nineteen, of course, is the number that God Himself picked. When people ask you, “Why 19?” tell them, “Because God said so in Sura 74.” God said it is the number 19 that will prove that the Quran is not man-made. 74:25 says that some people will say the Quran is man-made, and in 74:30 God says 19 will prove to you that it is not man-made.

And 74:35 says it is one of the greatest miracles. So this also proves the sequence of the prayers: morning, noon, afternoon, sunset, night. It is a multiple of 19, and it is universally recognized worldwide. There are no differences. Now, the literal composition of the sura is confirmed by the fact that, instead of the verse number, you put the number of letters. So you put the sura number, which is 1.

The first verse, as you know, is 19 letters: Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim. The second verse, Alhamdu lillahi rabbil alamin, is 17 letters. You put 17 instead of 2. The third verse, Al-Rahman Al-Rahim, is 12. Maliki yawmid-deen is 11 letters. Iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nasta’een, about the most important expression in the sura, “You alone we worship; You alone we ask for help,” is 19. You put 19.

And Ihdinas-siratal-mustaqeem is 18. Siratal-lazeena an’amta alayhim, ghayril-maghdoobi alayhim walad-dalleen is 43 letters. And this number also is a multiple of 19. So there you have it: physical evidence.

Just in passing, we just received the Aramco magazine, from the Arabian Oil Company, and on the front cover they have the last two verses of Sura 9, Satan’s verses, the satanic verses, and inside they have in fact written them in colloquial Arabic, not in Quranic Arabic, where there are three extra letters. So they’re trying hard to destroy God’s miracle, but it is not working. It’s too late. The cat is out of the bag.

So I hope you appreciate this miracle now. It is very clear. Now that Abdullah is here, it means everybody’s here, so I’m going to start my Khutbah now. Alhamdulillah, wa ashhadu alla elaha illa Allah, wahdahu la sharika lah. This is a very important Khutbah, in that God is revealing so much information. I’m going to repeat the assertion that you are a select group of people. You are destined to be here at this time.

The information that God is sending to us puts us an eternity ahead of anyone else living on Earth today. The subsequent generations will catch up with us, but today, on planet Earth, we are an eternity ahead of the rest of the world. The picture of why we are here is emerging very clearly now. There is a lot more to be known, but this is the time that God wills to send this information to us. It is relevant to our generation.

You know most of it, but the additional information shows how bad the human being is and how fortunate we in this masjid are. These are the two things that are the subject of this Khutbah: how bad the humans are, and how fortunate we are. It was Satan’s ego, E-G-O, remember this word, that made him think that he could be a god besides God, and this triggered a division in the heavenly community.

Some creatures agreed with Satan, and this constituted the heavenly feud that we see in Sura 38, 19 times 2, verse 69: the feud in the heavenly community. The vast, vast, vast majority disagreed with Satan. They stood on the side of God’s absolute authority, and those are the angels. They never questioned the fact that only God can be a god, and their number is unknown to anybody. Only God knows.

Sura 74, verse 31, says, “No one knows the number of God’s soldiers,” the angels, “except He.” Even the angels do not know what their population is. So don’t be tricked by the fact that 150 billion creatures agreed with Satan. Those are a very, very small minority. So now we have a minority, the criminal element in the heavenly society, and that’s you and me and the jinns, who failed to make a stand on God’s absolute authority.

God, the Most Merciful, offered this criminal element another opportunity to renounce their crime and to submit to God. And the vast, vast, vast majority of these creatures took advantage of that opportunity, which we see in Sura 33, verse 72. Those are the animals, the mountains, the stars, the trees. You remember in Sura 22, verse 18, God says, “Do you not realize that the mountains, the trees and the animals prostrate to God, and some people?” Remember that verse?

In Sura 55, verse 6, God says, “The stars and the trees prostrate.” What does this mean? It’s because they took advantage of that second opportunity to submit to God. The horse is a submitter to God. The horse is one of those creatures that committed that initial blasphemy and took advantage of the second offer. The horse is a perfect submitter. He comes to you on four legs, like this. Ego; remember the word ego?

The horse comes to you like this and says, “Ride me.” And the horse will let a poor person ride him, or a rich person. A child will lead the horse wherever that child wants. The horse is a perfect submitter. And this was the deal: the animals accepted to come here in a subservient, obedient function, and in return for this obedience they are redeemed to God’s kingdom in the Hereafter. That was the deal. The dog wags his tail to the homeless.

You see a homeless person walking in the street, very poor, and he’s taking his dog along with him, and the dog loves him. He wags his tail. The president of the United States has dogs also, and they wag their tails to the president, not because he’s the president. They don’t even know that they live in the White House. They can live in the street with the homeless or in the White House, and they’re submitting. They wag their tails.

When God asked you and me, “Do you want to go to the world?” God told us about the plan: “Do you want to participate in this plan as a horse? The poor will ride you, the rich will ride you, a child will lead you.” And you and I said, “No way. Me? Go as a horse?” Ego, remember? This criminal element. It is the ego that brought us here, and it is the ego that stands as an obstacle between us and redemption.

There were so many of the creatures who decided to take advantage of the second offer that they could not all come here as animals. It would be overcrowded. So God made them stars, and the stars prostrate. They go in their precise orbits. The sun rises and sets at exactly the same times. Today is September 29. The sunrise is 6:16. It’s not 6:15 or 6:20; it’s 6:16. And next year it’s going to rise at 6:16.

If you watch the horizon in the east, at 6:16 there comes the sun disk. You see it coming up, submitting. It’s going to set at 6:11, not 6:10. This is an eternal calendar. The moon is synchronized around the Earth, following exactly its orbit. Halley’s Comet comes every 76 years. They wait for it, and sure enough, here it comes, every 76 years. It goes God knows where.

But every 76 years, it comes back to the solar system and we see it. We refused. We are so bad. The human being is so bad. This explains why all these people are oblivious to God, and you can see that their ego is preventing them. God says in 33:72 that the human being was unjust and ignorant, “zalooman jahoola.” God called him ignorant. I’m not as polite as the Quran, but this really is the most fitting word.

When God told the horse, “You go as a horse, and you’ll be redeemed to God’s kingdom,” he said, “I’ll take it.” And they come here, perform their functions, and go back. Even our bodies are submitting, because the body is part of the Earth, and the Earth is submitting to God. The body is a garment made of the Earth, just like this garment came out of the oil from the ground. And your heart: you cannot control your heart. It’s out of your control.

Your peristalsis, the intestines moving like this to push the food all the way from the stomach until you digest it: you don’t control that. Miles and miles of your intestines are moving right now in a precise motion. The lungs are breathing. You don’t control that, because the Earth is submitting to God. Your body is part of the Earth, and you cannot control it. But the human being is so bad.

If I draw a line of God’s creatures in the heavenly community like this… Satan’s ego told him that he could be a god besides God. By the way, this minor rebellion proves to us that God’s creatures have freedom of choice. This is the usefulness, or the purpose, of this rebellion. People say, “Why did God create rebellious creatures?” God takes this into consideration, and this is why millions of people die before the age of 40 and are redeemed.

Obviously, they deserve it, but they participated in this very important function. The hardcore enemies of God will end up in Hell. And I love Ismail Barakat’s expression yesterday, when we were talking about what we read in the Perspective about them changing the spelling of the name Muhammad, even their idol, to five letters, just to oppose the miracle. He said, “They’re storming the gates of Hell.”

God builds fences around Hell, with very strong gates, and they’re storming the gates of Hell. So, when Satan did this, the vast majority of God’s creatures disagreed, but a small minority… Can you see this back there? This is the criminal element in the heavenly community. Now, if we expand this here…

When God offered the second opportunity for them to submit, the vast, vast majority of them submitted, and the really bad ones were just about this much. That’s you and me: the humans and the jinns. We refused. Because you know how many horses there are in the world, and how many mosquitoes and cockroaches, Edip, and bees. So the vast majority took advantage of the second offer. These are the really bad ones: “Me, go down as a horse? No.” You know, this is ego.

We thought we were smart enough to make the right decision. See, God told us that if you make the right decision, you’ll come back to the high Heaven, which is fantastic. And this is the second part of my sentence: how fortunate we are. This is how bad the humans are. Tubu ila Allah. Repent.

Alhamdulillah, wa ashhadu alla elaha illa Allah, wahdahu la sharika lah. So what you just did now, repent, means you said you’re sorry for doing this: “We made a mistake. We want to be redeemed back to God’s kingdom. We don’t want to be exiled from God.” We were exiled because of our ego. The reason you and I refused to come here as a dog or a horse or a mosquito was that we thought, “Oh, it’s easy. It’s a piece of cake. We will choose God. We will not choose Satan.” We sort of got interrupted here.

I want to mention that, since it is the ego that is the obstacle between us and God’s kingdom, “Kill your ego” is one of the first commandments in the Quran. Kill your ego: Sura 2, verse 54. In the first 10 pages of the Quran, it says, “Kill your ego.” And kill means dead. You see how the horse is? We’re supposed to kill our ego as far as God is concerned.

Killing the ego is not that somebody comes and slaps you in the face and you turn the other cheek. No. In fact, God says the believers are not wimps. They stand up for their rights. But as far as God is concerned, you must kill your ego. Because I’m telling you, the ego is what is preventing millions of people today from going to Heaven, and what led some of us to drop out when God willed that I announce my messengership.

The only reason they refuse is the ego, because God gave so much evidence, and zero evidence against it. And we’re still waiting for one reason, good or bad, and they can’t come up with one. There’s no reason to say that I am not God’s messenger. There’s no reason. But it’s the ego, and they can’t come out and say it. You can’t say, “It’s because of my ego that I don’t want to recognize you as God’s messenger.”

And it seems to me now that this is part of the test, a difficult test that God puts us through in order to kill our ego. Here’s one of us who claims to be God’s messenger, and God says in the Quran, “Obey God and obey the messenger.” “How am I going to do this? He’s just like me.” It’s our ego. I actually sympathize with those people. It took me eight years to accept that.

And I don’t want to give myself as a test; I have enough of my own. But I do want to ask myself, “If I were in their shoes, what would I do?” But it is definitely the ego, and God is fair. If they flunk, they deserve it. It is strictly ego. What is their reason? They could have come up with a reason, saying God says in the Quran that Muhammad is the last messenger, and this would be over. It’d be finished.

But they don’t come up with a reason like that, because there’s no such thing. The Quran says Muhammad is the last prophet, a scripture-bearing messenger, but he was not the last messenger. The Quran makes it very clear. They could have come up with 100 reasons.

[Someone in the audience mentions the Chicago conference.]

Yes, things are brewing now. This may change the direction of things. But I think I said everything I wanted to say anyway. There’s much more that we’ll discuss tonight, Inshallah, and in the next months and years, Inshallah. We’ll be discussing these, and God will send more information. But the highlight is that I wanted to point out how bad the human being is, and how fortunate we are.

They established something called the Council on the Preservation of the Finality of Prophethood. This includes the big wigs in the Muslim world: the Pope of the Sunni Muslims, Sheikh Al-Azhar; the imam of the Kaaba, the Mecca Masjid; and the head of the Muslim World League. And they are holding an urgent conference in Chicago on October 7, two weeks from now. It’s called the World Conference on the Finality of Prophethood. And they are trying to confuse the people.

Remember the verse in the Quran that says they distort the words out of context? They are trying to confuse the people as far as the definitions of prophet and messenger are concerned. And since they brought this up, I’m going to read to you the letter that I wrote to them, to all those big wigs. This is their flyer, and it says, “World Conference on Finality of the Prophethood and Significance of Hadith.”

And they say, “Conference will start on Saturday, October 7th.” There’s no Inshallah. You will not see the name of God on this sheet. There’s not a single word “God” on this sheet. There’s no Quran on this sheet. There’s Hadith, and there’s a picture of the Prophet’s mosque, which he never saw, right here. And it gives you the names: Sheikh Al-Azhar, and so on. And you know something? We will be there. We’ll be represented there, and I’m going to give them a lot of trouble.

Herbert Hill, you know him from Chicago; he was here at the conference. He’s taking his brother, who used to be a Sunni and is being saved, and maybe some other people. And they will go there, and we’ll ask some crucial questions, like: What is the difference between a prophet and a messenger? Tell me, where in the Quran does it say Muhammad is the last messenger? Who is the Messenger of the Covenant, which is in 3:81? Et cetera, et cetera. We have 19 questions for them.

Oh, the letter which I wrote to them. I sent it to each one of the top leaders, and I said: “To: [these people]. From: Rashad Khalifa. Re: World Conference on Finality of the Prophethood. Dear brothers, Assalamu Alaikum. No one is questioning the fact that Muhammad was the final prophet (Nabi), Quran 33:40. According to 3:81, 33:7 and 33:4, he was not the last messenger (Rasool).

“As Muslims, we are required to believe Almighty God when He so states in His Holy Book. The Quranic assertions that Muhammad was the final prophet, but not the final messenger, are God’s commandments to us through the Prophet Muhammad. I trust that you stand ready to obey God and His final prophet. You will readily agree with me that those who refuse to accept these Quranic truths are no longer Muslims, Quran 3:81-85.

“As God’s Messenger of the Covenant, supported by overwhelming physical evidence, it is my obligation to invite you to examine these Quranic truths and examine the evidence God has given me to present to you and to the world. You are cordially invited to Masjid Tucson at any time you choose, to discuss this matter and examine my evidence. Thank you, and may God bless you with His guidance and infinite mercy. Your brother in Islam, Rashad Khalifa.”

There has to be some diplomacy there. Akeem As-Salat.

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa presents new discoveries related to the number 19 in the Quran and the five daily prayers, and then speaks about the death of his mother, a believer, before the funeral prayer.

Video Transcript:

Alhamdulillah. We praise God, and we bear witness that there is no other god beside the one God. Are we going to have fun today? I’m giving threebas on behalf of three people. I’m giving on behalf of and audi from New Hampshire. I’m presenting to you some things that they discovered in the last week and they’re all fantastic. you have all witnessed the last month or so the miracle of miracles. You witnessed the miracle of miracles that has to do with the first surah in the Quran and the five daily prayers. And just a quick review, this miracle of miracles begins with the number of units of our prayers. The morning is two units, the noon is four units, the afternoon is four units, the sunset is three units, and the night prayer is four units. And this is a multiple of 19. The sequence and specific numbers have to be this way. more more sophisticated than this is the you put the two units of the morning and then you put two fatty. Now the asterisk can be any representation of surah number one. For example, this is one of them. This representation of surah one includes the number of the surah one the number of verses in the surah which is seven. The number of words letters letters in the whole surah 139 and the geometrical value of all the letters added up the whole surah. This means you take the value of every letter add it up and you get 100 10,043 put them next to each other like this you have a multiple of 19. And this is what the asterisk is. Or you can make it more complicated than this by putting the gematical value of every individual letter. You can also add the gematical values of the whole verse. You can add the number of verses excuse number of letters in every verse and so on. All of them these representations are multiples of 19 and all of them can be used here. Wow. So just think of this as al fat or surah number one. Any of these numbers can represent surah number one. So you put the two units of the morning prayer followed by two fatas and then the four units of the noon prayer followed by four fatas and then the four units of the afternoon prayer followed by four of this number or any other number representing al fat. The sunset prayer is three units followed by three fatas. And then the night prayer is four units followed by four fat. We we tried we we really tested this very hard and we as you will see we even impose very harsh conditions and still God gives us multiples of 19. One of the most profound conditions was to reverse the numbers from right to left. There was one representation of of surah al fata one that can be used in the as a to replace the asterisk.

Like I said, you can use any number representatives of surah number one. Here is one of them. And I just want to give you how an example of how we stretch it too far and God goes along with us. Gives us multiple of 19. Still you put the number of the surah. The number of the first verse is one. The number of letters in the first verse is 19. The geometrical value of the first verse 786. Verse number two has 17 letters and the value is 581. Verse number three. Now this is one continuous number. Remember that verse number three has 12 letters and the value of 618. Verse number four has 11 letters and the value is 241. Verse number five, we’re still continuing past 19. letters and the value is 836. Verse number six has 17 letters and the value is 1072.

The geometrical value. The last verse number seven has 43 letters and the value is 6 0 0 9. Okay. This this is almost all the parameters of surah number one. The number of the surah, the number of every verse followed by the number of letters in every verse followed by the value of every verse. Okay, this number is a multim of 19. It also it consists of 38 digits. 19 * 2. So what we did, we reversed this. We wrote it backward. every component. We put this at the beginning and then this after it, which is a crazy way of doing it, but some Arabs will will use that as an excuse. They say to right to left. Well, still came out a multiple of 19. So, this is really the miracle of miracles. Now, okay, some smart ali most probably an Arab will will tell you why do you make two sujuds in every unit? Why not three or four? We will do one rule. This is ru per unit and we make two sujuds per units. So this smart alaki disbeliever will will tell you why do you make one rau and two sjuds and god is ahead of them. So this is talar’s discovery because of new from New Hampshire.

say in the five prayers in the five prayers we read only one surah which is surah number one okay now prayer number one what do we do in prayer number one here’s prayer number one what do we do we we we need two fatty right and we make two bowings Four prostrations, one, right? Okay. Now we get to prayer number two. What do we do in prayer number two? We read four fats. We make four. We make eight sujuds and we read two in the sitting position. Then we get to the third prayer. Prayer number three where we did four fats, four rurles. Oh, excuse me. This is three. Oh, this one. Then we go to prayer number four where we need three fat. See the changes in number and this is the only way it will be divisible by 19. We did three fat, three, six, two, and the night prayer is number four is number five. Excuse me. In it, we read four fatas. We make four, eight, eight. This is a multiple of 19. So it pins down how many records, how many sujuds in every prayer in the five prayers and know this miraculous or this miraculous. We were very happy. We were we were very happy about this except we have in this mosque a troublemaker called a deep. We’re going to have one more in about 7 months. I don’t know how we’re going to handle that. This troublemaker said why? Well, see we have to be ahead of the rascals of the of the Arabs and the disbelievers. This is we do this on purpose. So it’s a fantastic service. He said we read surah number one they will say why not put it before every prayer and then he went home and he left and he left Mahmud to struggle with it. So what Muhammad did he he put one okay here is surah prayer number two so he put one here so now we have the surah number ahead of every prayer this prayer number one this is prayer number two he put one the surah that we read in the noon prayer before the ask prayer he put one yeah this is the third prayer in the fourth prayer he also put And before the fifth prayer, he put one. His excuse was that we read surah number one in every prayer. So why don’t one went there? God said, “Okay, it’s divisible.” It’s really incredible cuz when you have a number like this divisible by 19. Okay. This this number is divisible by 19. This is eight. Okay. This number is divisible by 19. If you add one, it’s not divisible anymore. Yes sir. If you put if you put it anywhere else here it’s not divisible 90 you change you have a completely different number when you add one. So these are all physical impossibilities but God made them possible. I hope that no scientists here will tell me how can a physical impossibility. Why? If you put anywhere else, this four one will not be divisible. Of course not. If you move the one here or here different way, this only chance. Yes, there’s been a flood of miracles in the last month. And to use Katherine’s expression, we are light years ahead of the rest of the world because it’s going to take him quite a few years to catch up with these. But after 50 years, it’s like you take him maybe this much. Okay, this is discovery with deep channel and discovery.

I have to go a little faster. A deep discovery. the the disbelievers normally Arabs have been giving us rough time about is it 19 letters or not? Of course it is 19 letters. I I keep telling them what your eyes see you count. They say oh there is a stress in this letter. We must count it twice. Like Muhammad, the whole Muslim world wrote it four letters. Muhammad. He said, “But since since you dress the second M, you must write Muhammad. You have five letters instead of four. Even their idol, they mess up with his name.” So what Adib discovered is that when you read Surah Alham Fat, surah number one, your lips meet exactly 19 times. Now this has nothing to do with the spelling. or or how many letters or a stress or anything. This really nullifies their excuse. For example, say B. That’s two. Let’s say it together. Let’s do it together. B that is that is two. Here is B.

Allah alman. There is one alim. There’s one alhamd. There’s one. There is one.

two of them.

How many are these? There’s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Allah alman this Allah alman. Alhamdulillah. Amen.

Okay. Because there are what’s this? Four B’s and 15 M’s in the Arabic language. These are the only letters where where your lips meet, the B and the M. In English or in fancy there’s also P. The letter P as in as in has to be pill backward. Okay. The B the value of B is two and the value of M is 40 in Arabic. So 15 * 40 is 600 and 4 * 2 is 8. The total 608 is also a multiple of 19. I’ll be like that. These miracles come in pairs. They have no excuse. I know.

Oh, okay. Now we get to discovery second.

So numbered the alphabet in a conventional manner that is from 1 to 28. We have 28 letters in alphabet. She counted 1 to 28. The geometrical value is when you get to 10, you don’t count 11. You go to 20, 10, 20, 30, 40. When you get to 100, you go to 101, you go 100, 200, 300, and then 900, 1,000. Her system was 1 2 3 all the way to 28, which was used by Lisa also a couple years ago. Okay. She she looked at the word no in Arabic. The value of n is 14. Excuse me. Let me try so small. 14 and the u or wow in Arabic is six and the h or the is 8. This gift 28. The value of Noah. Now if you look in the Quran to for surah Noah, you’ll find it consist of 28 verses. Okay. Okay. Now she went to Abraham and she found that the A is one, the B is two, the R is 20. 200. The A is one. The H is five. The H here, Ibraim is 10. And the M is 40. This guy 52 no what? 40. No, excuse me. 40 is the grammatical is 13. Confuse the two systems here. The total of Ibraim is 52 and this is the number of verses in surah Ibrahim. How do you like that? Okay, that’s Muhammad and the M is 13. The H is eight. Same letter is here. See Muhammad and then 13 the other end and the D is four and the total is 38. This is the number of vers in surah Muhammad. How would you like that? So she calculated the value of no was 28 which is the number of verses in surah no in the Quran. She calculated Abra Ibraim the value is 52 and this is the number of verses in surah Ibraim. She calculated Muhammad the value was 38 and this is the number of verses in surah Muhammad and then she found out that was this morning that now surah no is number 71 in the Quran Ibraim is surah number 14 what is the difference 57 19 * 3 which means between the two suras Noah and Abraham 57 suras and outside also 57 suras and then she calculated rashad khalif and the total came to 114 there’s no surah in the Quran whose verses is 114 but 114 is the whole Quran so she concluded that rashad’s job is to confirm all 114 suras Alhamdulillah. We praise God and we bear witness that there is no other God besides the one God. We pray to God that he guide us to appreciate his miracles cuz these are awesome miracles that will cause mountains to crumble literally this what God says and makes our hearts tremble. And this I want to uh share with you that God is using me as an example for all of us and to teach all of us. so I I want to say that I’m a happy guinea pig. God is using me as an as to experiment in a profound way. You read in surah 41 that those who believe in God and lead a righteous life, the angels descend on them, saying what? What do the angels say to the believer? Peace. Have no fear. And no grief.

Grief. This is your favorite. You also say peace. Yes. That’s another fear and no grief. Arabic. have no fear and no grief. And we had a profound example in the last two weeks. Do you remember what I talked about last time when I was here? Anybody remembers? Yes. About the righteous do not die remembers. I’m sure all of you remember the hudba was a revelation. It start with a question from Lisa as to what the righteous. And as you know in the Quran, God repeats yes. Aluna they ask you for say they ask you say when a question is posed God sends the revelation through Gabriel to tell us what the answer is or if we are speculating then God will send Gabriel with the assurance as to what is the correct answer to the question. So I shared with you last time that the righteous do not die, they go straight to heaven. And I wrote it down in the perspective and I mailed it to everybody.

So even yesterday, was it yesterday? The day before yesterday, this Saudi guy called from Chicago before yesterday. The day before yesterday, he called and talked with me for an hour. and sarcastically he said okay what was Gabriel’s latest revelation he was he was ridiculing and mocking I told him the last revelation Gabriel came was that the righteous do not die they go straight to heaven and after I finished talking with him this was quite a reminder then I called Egypt and I found out that my mother went to heaven on Monday which is the day that Sahad made that discovery and she considered to be the happiest day of her life. It’s a it’s an assurance from God. He sent the angel. He says have no fear, have no grief. And then you know that your mother made it to heaven. She didn’t die. He simply also the information that I got are are very assuring. Okay. She tells the servant, “Go make me a cup of tea.

The servant comes back in 2 minutes and she’s gone. So, she’s in a good mood. You usually ask for a cup of tea when you you’re perfectly happy. You’re going to sip the tea, watch the TV or something. And if you remember what I told you in the last, I said the angel comes and invite the righteous person to go to heaven and says, “Yeah, really?” They go, he probably told her, “You’re going to wait for the cup of tea.” What? Are you kidding me? So there there were many many many strange signs that happened to to assure me. Okay. in order to do the funeral prayer they went to the mosque and in that mosque there were only two believers that we know and one of them at least will be here for the conference in September. His name is Mustafa Sarban. they they already pushed a known cathar to lead the prayer non disbeliever whom I know also an idol worshipper and then Mustafa oh Mustafa opened the Quran when he went in and he the verse that came out was God cited the example of Pharaoh’s wife God’s example of the believers Pharaoh’s wife she prayed to God please build a mansion for me in paradise with and save me from the the wicked people. So that was the verse he read this the first side. And then Mustafa said, I don’t know why all of a sudden they pulled the other guy and they pushed me in to lead the prayer. So Mustafa, a believer went in to lead the prayer. We’re going to have a prayer immediately after the Friday prayer. We’ll have a prayer for her. So, a believer was chosen to lead the prayer. And he said, now this embarrasses me a little bit, but I have to say it. I’m sharing it with you. But he said the intention that came out, I didn’t want to say it. I had no intention of saying it, but this is how it came out. And he said, this is this is what came out of his mouth. says, “I intend to to pray for the soul of the mother of your servant and your messenger Khalifa.” And this Mustafa is a believer anyway, but he said he had no intention at all of of saying this. Okay. So they go for the burial and they met zik around the after the burial and both the two believers Mustafa and Sharif they told me on the phone we were amazed at the number of that we said around they was just saying forgot an hour and nothing else just so what I’m saying is that God is teaching us through one of us because that of course the unbelievers will say oh he wrote this because his mother died or whatever they’re going to say but we you we know that I said it last Friday two two weeks ago and I printed it and I made it and after this we hear the news. So the angels literally the angels come down to you and tell you have no grief and have no fear. I think I have to mention my father here who was I tried with him very hard to believe but he refused to believe. the family had decided to bury my mother with my father. He decided and she decided everybody decided that my father is an idol now himself by his followers and I know for a fact this is something else that he died as a disbeliever and I was taken from here literally taken carried from here there just before he died to give him the last warning even though I didn’t intend to I had no intention of talking to him about religion but he insisted and I God let me know that he died as a disbeliever God also let me know that my mother died as a believer. I think I failed to mention this, but all her life since I was 2 years old, I heard her say to my father, “Those saints are helpless. They’re powerless. They are dead. Only God can help you. God alone.” She was saying she was saying, “God alone all her life.” So I I know for a fact that she’s a believer. And this all fits the the total picture. So when they went to according to their family’s wishes, his followers, idol worshippers who want to build around him and worship him, they didn’t want anybody else with him. They think they thought that she will pollute the grave with something. So God saved her from that situation and she’s buried with her mother whom I know also to be a believer. It’s just all the things that happened is just fantastic.

Now, here is the trick. When my father died, I was sad cuz he died as a disbeliever and he was a man I loved very much. When he died, I was sad. When my mother died, I’m happy. I was happy because of what God sent down that the righteous do not die. They go on to to paradise. So immediately after the Friday prayer, we will pray the two raas of the funeral. You you know how to do it now because of his circumstances.

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa notes that most of humanity is yet to be born, reviews how the creatures were classified as angels, jinns and humans, and explains that this world is a temporary, mild Hell (19:71-72) where God still provides for everyone. He previews Abdullah’s discovery that the verse numbers of the Quran, without the two false verses, form a multiple of 19, and reads the Bible’s prophecy of the Messenger of the Covenant in Malachi 3.

Video Transcript:

Allahu Akbar.

Alhamdulillah. We praise God, and we bear witness that there is no god except the One God. As you know, I have been working on the new translation, and now we’re down to the serious business of preparing the pages for the printer. So these seem to be the final developments.

And there is a lot of information that is developing right now. There’s a lot to be learned, but I want to share the developments with you as they are happening. One of the main questions that people have always asked, since the time of Moses, is: what about all those people in the past? They had the wrong information. Remember the question Pharaoh asked Moses: “What about all those people of the past generations?” And Moses said, “Their knowledge is with my Lord. My Lord is never wrong.”

So this question keeps coming up: what about all those millions of people in the past? So I want to just do some statistics with you. If we divide the population of the world… If we just draw a bar like this and divide it into 15 sections. These are 15 sections. From the time of Adam, from the beginning, the first man, until now, will occupy this section here. These are the people who lived on Earth from the time of Adam until now: about six billion people.

And from now, from 1989 (Happy New Year) to the end of the world, 2280, there will be this many people: 75 billion. So, as you see, we are still at the beginning of humanity, and the vast majority…

We talked about the three categories of creatures, how God’s creatures became classified as a result of the heavenly dispute, the dispute in the High Society of Sura 38, verse 69. Satan thought he could be a god, due to his ignorance of the fact that only God possesses the power. And it is not egotistic on God’s part or anything like that, God be glorified. It is simply a fact that God alone can control every atom in the universes, while no other creature can do that. And we have seen examples of how Satan cannot even see big things in this world; I have shared this with you before.

So, because of Satan’s ignorance and arrogance, he thought that he could rule as a god somewhere, and God gave him this tiny mote called planet Earth to rule. Now, going back to the classification of the creatures: there’s a category at the University of Arizona called “non-classified student.” This is a student who goes in, and he or she is neither undergraduate nor graduate. It’s a non-classified student.

Classification happened as a result of this dispute. Number one, the first group, was the angels, and those are the intelligent creatures. Those are the ones who knew, or believed, or decided with their own free will, that God alone possesses all power to control every atom in the universe. They never, never had a doubt or a question. So they became classified as angels.

The second group actually believed that Satan could act as a god, that he possesses enough qualifications and power to be a god. Those are Satan and his tribe, the jinns. Those became jinns. That’s why your jinn is always telling you that Muhammad also has some power, that Jesus has some power, that saints…

If Satan points at you and says, “This person idolizes something,” for the slightest reason, God will say, “Take him,” or her. “This one is yours.” So that’s why we have to run away as far as possible from any hint of idol worship. Anyway, the third category of creatures became humans. Those are the ones who didn’t make up their minds.

They said, “Yeah, maybe Satan can do it.” In other words, they were not sold on God’s absolute authority. They were not firm; they didn’t say, “Only God possesses all power.” And this is why we are here: to help us make up our minds. But basically, this is a horrendous crime, not to appreciate God’s absolute authority. And this is why we are here.

Okay, so God decided to give us this chance, to help us make up our minds and to help us be redeemed. The angels, who are completely sold on God’s absolute authority, said, “Send them all to Hell. Don’t give them another chance.” God, the Most Merciful, decided to give us that chance. We talked about this, but as you see, you and I are developing this understanding together, and there’s a lot more to be learned, Inshallah. This verse here, 255 of Sura 2, says God releases His knowledge in accordance with His will. So this knowledge is coming to us in accordance with God’s will, bit by bit.

Now, this brings us to the question of “send them to Hell.” And it seems, from studying Sura 19, verses 71 and 72, that this is Hell. By definition, this is Hell. Let me qualify this: this is a temporary, mild Hell. The Hell that will start on the Day of Resurrection is a lot worse, and this is what I’m going to discuss with you now.

If you read 19:71-72, it says every single one of you is going there, will go to Hell. Then, in verse 72, God says, “Then We save the righteous, and leave the transgressors there.” So this is a halfway house between Heaven and Hell. You may call it a purgatory, if you wish to use that term. Verses 19:71 and 72 say every single one of you is going there.

Now, what is the definition of Hell? The definition of Hell is simply the absence of God. If God is not here, this is Hell. And God teaches us in the Quran that He is not here physically. Moses wanted to see God, and God said, “You cannot see Me. Look at the mountain; if it stays in place, you will see Me.” And then God manifested Himself to the mountain, and the mountain crumbled. This Earth cannot stand the presence of God. Therefore God, even though He controls every single atom in the universe, is not here physically. He doesn’t need to be here to control every atom. So the absence of God means Hell.

This is Hell. In Sura 21, verse 101, we see that the righteous will be taken away from Hell. So all these problems, the airplane crashes and the earthquakes and the headaches and the problems, are because this is Hell. And it is Hell because Satan is running it, in accordance with God’s will.

However, this is a mild Hell, because God didn’t completely throw us into Hell. Like I said, it’s a halfway house. For example, God provides. In the real Hell, God will not provide. And we see this in what I wrote down here, Sura 7, verse 32: God says the provisions are only for the righteous on the Day of Resurrection, in the Hereafter, exclusively. And you recall in Sura 2, verse 126, when Abraham said, “Please, God, provide for those who believe in God and the Last Day,” God said, “And also for the disbelievers,” because God wants to give them a chance to redeem themselves.

So God interferes. God is the only provider in this world, not Satan; that’s not Satan’s job. Satan’s only job here is to take care of his constituents, other than provisions, and to run his kingdom with those constituents. But God does interfere, to provide for the believer and the disbeliever. This is not so in the Hereafter. In the eternal Hell of the Hereafter, Satan will be in Hell, and there will be no provisions for anybody in Hell. So these are some of the thoughts that I wanted to share with you. So let us repent and redeem ourselves. God redeems us on request.

Alhamdulillah. We praise God, and we bear witness that there is no god except the One God.

What was I saying before I got interrupted? Okay. In this Khutbah, I would like to steal some of Abdullah’s ideas. He’s going to give you the details next Friday, Inshallah, but I think he discovered the ultimate miracle in the Quran. I haven’t looked at it yet, but this is what I understand from what they told me; I was not available when he came. I don’t even need the board.

What he did: he took all the numbers in the Quran. We have Sura number 1, seven verses; Sura number 2, 286 verses… Hmm? The initialed suras only? Oh, okay, not the whole Quran. The initialed suras, including Sura 9. So Sura 1, and then Suras 4, 5, 6, and so on; you skip the initialed suras. Sura 9 is an un-initialed sura, as you know. So if you take Sura number 1 and put verse number 1, verse number 2, verse number 3, 4 and so on to verse 7, and you do the same thing with all those suras in the Quran, putting the numbers next to each other (of course, when you come to Sura 9, you go only to verse 127, not 129), this will give you a number that is, I think, about three miles long, and it is a multiple of 19. If you add the false verses 128 and 129, it is not a multiple of 19.

As you know, this is a principle that has been laid down before. You know, the morning prayer is two units. The noon prayer is four rak’ahs, four units. The afternoon prayer is four, the sunset is three, and the night is four. This number here is a multiple of 19. So this is putting the numbers next to each other, and this tells us that these are the correct prayers, the correct numbers of rak’ahs. The morning is two rak’ahs, two units, and this is universal in the whole world. This is why the sunset is three and not four. If it were four or five or two, you would not have a multiple of 19. So Abdullah will give you the details next week, but this is a preview of it.

And I want to share with you what the Bible says about the Messenger of the Covenant. Now, with this fact here, from the beginning of the world until now, this is the amount of population that we have, and the majority of people are yet to come. It makes sense that someone should come to put the message together, to clean out all the falsehood, the junk, the innovations that were added to it, and to put the messages of all the prophets into one unit.

And it’s amazing that the Bible should speak about the Messenger of the Covenant. I have been talking to some enlightened Christians about this, and I’ve really got some profound information. This is the last book of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi, chapter 3. The Messenger of the Covenant in the Quran is in Sura 3 also.

Chapter 3 says: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap.” Then the verses go on, talking about cleaning, refining gold, so the believers will come out like gold, removing all the dirt, and also that he will be burning the others.

And this makes us think: what is it that we do wrong, that people are so averse to it? Why do they pick on us, and say, “Why do you go to this mosque?” and this kind of thing? What are we doing? We’re worshiping God alone. We’re saying, “Worship God alone. Worship the One who created you. Do not idolize powerless humans.” But it shows you how the human being is basically bad. The human being is basically criminal. Even though we’re saying mild things, we’re saying the right things, we’re saying “La ilaha illa Allah,” it hurts them.

Because we purify. Let me read another version. You can look it up in any Bible, in Malachi chapter 3. Malachi is the last book in the Old Testament, and Malachi is one of the prophets of Israel, the last one. The subtitle is “The Messenger of the Covenant.”

[He reads Malachi 3:1-3 from another translation.]

Meaning the people, refining them like gold or like silver, that they may offer due sacrifice to the Lord. And it goes on, this purification process, and it seems like our generation is doing this purification process now.

What do the Christians believe? Most Christians believe that the Messenger of the Covenant is John the Baptist, because he came immediately after Jesus. And it doesn’t make sense, because they are coming from the claim that Jesus is God, or the Lord. See, listen to what it says at the beginning of the chapter: “Behold, I will send my messenger.” This is in the Old Testament, before Jesus was born, and they are thinking that this is Jesus speaking. You can see the fantasy. They claim that Jesus is saying, “Behold, I will send my messenger,” and they are wrong. The Messenger of the Covenant: God willed that he should be mentioned in the Bible and in the Quran.

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa explains that mathematical composition is a literary feature found only in God’s scripture, presents examples of the code of 19 in the Quran, and relates them to the Day of Judgment.

Video Transcript:

you I’m going to get you going on time inshallah. Don’t worry.

Alhamdulillah.

The idea of mathematical composition of literature is an original idea. It’s a new idea and it is monopolized by God alone. This is mathematical composition of literary works. If you go to the library and look at millions of books, you will not find one that is mathematically composed. The idea is not known in humanmade books. And the Quran is the only book in the world that is mathematically composed and is intact. There have been fragments of of mathematically composed materials like liturgies and small pieces of the original scripture. But the Quran is the only book in the world that’s mathematically composed. And the idea of mathematical compos composition is that everything is calculated. The words, the letters, the verses, the chapters. I can ask you to write a book where chapter 2 contains 500 s’s for example. This is a mathematical composition because you’ll get to chapter two and you will write and count the s’s and keep track of them. So you’ll end up with 500 s’s in chapter 2. So this is the simplest form of mathematical composition. this can be made difficult by adding more specifications. Chapter 2 has 500 S’s and chapter 6 has 300 H’s and 200 Rs for example. It then becomes more difficult. You have to keep track of more things as you write. And as you write, you have to make up sentences that make sense and and and serve a purpose. It’s not just calculations. It’s two important things. So the Quran is the only book in in in the world today that is mathematically composed. And this is why I’m kind of monopolizing these days. You may have to bear with me one more time. But I’m giving this on behalf of sister Ramadan. She she made some significant discoveries that you have in front of you and they’re really profound. What is happening these days is a concentration on the parameter of the numbers assigned to the verses in the Quran. Are these haphazard? Were they made by men? Was it just somebody said let us give this number six and this number seven and they divided the verses halfhazardly and the loud the message that’s coming loud and clear is no. These numbers are assigned by God. So let me the first new I I reported some new findings to you last week. The thing that Hassan found this morning. Was it this morning or last year? I’m losing track of time. I think it is this morning. It’s been it’s been very exciting in the office here and you can see that I am my breath is taken away. It is breathtaking. One of the most important worships in Islam is salat. Salat connection between the creature and the creator. Something that we practice. And this seems to be the most important thing for any human being. The Jews and the Christians we know from Quran lost it. In in surah 19. By the way, the verse says that generations came after Moses and Jesus that lost the contact prayer which means they lost the combination. This is Hassan’s own words. They lost the combination to the safe. So they couldn’t make contact and the consequence is given in the same verse. Therefore, they will suffer immensely because they lost the contact. Imagine being in this sizzling pan called the world and these contact prayers are the ropes that keep you out of the sizzling pan. If you don’t have if you don’t make this contact you are burning in this sizzling you’re suffering the pains and problems. Okay. The word salat in Quran contact prayer this signifies its importance. If you look at the small sheet here, what we did was add the suras and the verses where the word salat occurs in the whole Quran. And the total is circuited in red. 4674 4,674. It’s a very big number. It’s a very big number. Which means if there’s there was one verse that came to us 32 instead of 31 for example from God in other words God assigned the number 31 and somebody in400 years change it to 32 we will not have this will not be divisible because this is a multiple of 19 * 246 Six. These are the numbers of the suras and the numbers of the verses. And any discrepancy, this is the ultimate in scientific proof. Mathematics is very sensitive. 76 for example is a multiple of 19 but not 77 and not 75. And the larger the number the the the more huge the odds that this is have it. So you understand this one here. Now the word Quran. You take the word Quran. It’s a very important word. And at the top of the page what you see are the numbers of verses throughout Quran where the word Quran occurs. And you take those verses, the numbers of the verses and add them up. As you see here, if you look at the top of the page says ready and then the number 10, this is the number of the line equals 185 is the first verse where the word Quran happens. It’s in surah 2, verse 185 plus 82. 82 is the second verse where the word Quran happens. And this is in surah probably surah 4 and and so on. So we added up all the verses where the word Quran takes place and the total is 2 66 6 = 19 * 140. Now listen to this. The word Quran happens in the Quran 58 times. 58 is not a multiple of 19. But one of them, one of these is in surah 10 where God says every time you saw the Quran to the disbelievers they say give us a Quran other than this. So it is not this Quran. So the word the Quran this Quran of God is it happens 57 times which is 19* three and this total does not include that verse that says a Quran other than this. So you can see the accuracy and the intricacy of this this not this not human made. Now the word Quran of course it happens a number of times in in certain suras. How many suras the word Quran in every shape form or gram grammatical shape is found in 38 suras? 19 * 2. If you add the number of suras where the Quran, the word Quran happens, and the number of verses, the total of the verses where the Quran takes place, the total is 2,698. 19 * 142. Does this number ring a bell? Anybody? G of Allah. Exactly. This is the name. The word Allah occurs in the Quran. this total 2,698 the the the evidence is piling up and at this rate the word will end tomorrow I mean something something is happening at this rate of the evidence sping and the showing that we have a book from God repent Alhamdulillah.

Like I said, I’m going on behalf of she gave me she mentioned some idea today. She said if you’re driving and the traffic light is turning from green to yellow to red and you’re driving very fast and you’re contemplating, you know, shall I cross or stop and then very quickly you notice a police car standing there at the intersection? What will you do? You’re going to stop. You know, let’s finish the contemplation. It’s done. You’re going to stop. So, made an invention, a terrible invention, you know. It’s a turbulent. She invented a machine that will electronically ticket you whether the police is there or not. If you cross at the wrong time, there’s an electronic machine there that will give you a ticket. Now, what will you do? You will stop. You see, and the people who believe in God know that God is with them, closer to them than the jugular vein. And therefore they know that every time they make a mistake there’s electronic machine that will give them a ticket. You know now are the people do they do they believe in the police or do they believe in God this this this you know they believe that God is with them and they will know that anytime they make a mistake they’ll get a ticket and there will be the time to pay those tickets. Okay that’s another idea. The other thing that I want to mention, Ahmed, you want to man the camera. Oops. Put them. We’re going to edit this for you. So if you want the a copy of it to give you a copy, there is a verse in surah 68 that says on the day of judgment every human being will be required will be invited because it’s a privilege will be invited to fall prostrate before God when he comes to this world. But the the people who did not make sjud here in this world do not be able to to make sudjud over there. And the Quran says they used they were invited to make sjud when they were able to. So this this is this adds to the importance of the salat for if you mix here you’ll be able to mix there. Finally, there’s a psalm that I’d like to read for you.

I had the marking it. Psalm 62 says, “Trust in God alone. Only in God is my soul at rest. From him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold. I shall not be dist disturbed at all. How long will you set upon a man wu with all together and all together beat him down as though he were a sagging fence, a battered wall. That’s that’s if you put your trust in in men in humans instead of God. Though he were a sac a sacrifice in a battered war truly from my place on high they plan to dislodge me they delight in lies. They bless with their mouths but inwardly they curse. Only in God be at rest my soul. For from him comes my hope. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold. I shall not be disturbed.

With God is my safety and my glory. He is the rock of my strength. My refuge is in God. Trust in him at all times, oh my people. Pour out your hearts before him. God is our refuge.

Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa explains that 19 means “God is One,” then shows how the words “wahid” (one) and “wahdahu” (alone), and the five pillars of Islam (Salat, Zakat, fasting and Hajj), fit the mathematical code, with a message even in the numbers. He also notes that Jesus and Adam are each mentioned 25 times, and recommends the Quran’s prayer for protection from the devils (23:97-98).

Video Transcript:

Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.

I have been talking to you about the overwhelming, blessed explosion in the miracle of the Quran in the last few weeks. Gatut was supposed to give the Khutbah today, but because of the unusual circumstances, this blessed explosion, I again asked him to let me give the Khutbah today. So you have to put up with me one more time. But I want to go back to the basics.

As you know, the foundation of the miracle of the Quran is in the first verse, Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim, and these are exactly 19 letters. Now, we came to know that the meaning of the number 19 is that God is One, because in the time when the Quran was revealed, there were no numbers. They used the alphabet as numbers. For example, this served as the letter waw and also as the number 6. This was the letter alif and the number 1 at the same time. This was the letter ha and the number 8. Every letter doubled as a letter and a number. The dal also serves as 4. So when you add them: 4 and 8 is 12, 13, and 19. The total is 19. So the reason the number 19 is the common denominator is that it means that God is One.

This is the basic message of the Quran: do not worship except Allah. Sometimes I’m surprised at how many of us here do not know these basic pieces of information. So now, after this very quick review: the blessed explosion this time has to do with the five pillars of Islam. I’m going to deal with the number one pillar, which is worshiping God alone.

What we just found… I think most of you knew that the word “wahid” is found in the Quran 25 times. But six of those have nothing to do with God. They have to do with the Children of Israel saying, “We cannot tolerate one kind of food,” “lan nasbira ‘ala ta’amin wahid,” and Jacob telling his children, “Do not enter from one door,” “la tadkhulu min babin wahid,” and so on. Six of them have nothing to do with Allah. Nineteen say that God is one, 19 of them. So this keeps with the code.

But what is new now is that you take the numbers of the suras and the numbers of the verses where the word “wahid” occurs, and the total… One: you worship God alone. The total is 1425, which is 19 times 75. So much for 19.

Now, it is not enough to know that God is one, that Allah is one. You must worship God alone, and this is something new: the word “wahdahu,” God alone. This word is mentioned in the Quran six times. Five times it has to do with Allah, and one time with the Quran: “Wa idha dhakarta rabbaka fil-Qurani wahdahu wallaw ‘ala adbarihim nufura.” It has to do with the Quran: if you preach the Quran alone, they don’t like it. But for the five times, you take the verses and the suras again and add them up, and the total is 361. What’s this now? 361, for the word “alone,” worship God alone. This is 19 times 19. Now, this is assurance. It turns out that these numbers also have a message in them. Okay, so this is the first pillar of Islam, worshiping God alone.

The other basic pillars, as you know, the famous five basic pillars of Islam, are what? Salat, Zakat, Siyam (fasting) and Hajj. Now, it turns out, if you look at the index of the Quran, Salat is mentioned 67 times, Zakat is mentioned, I believe, six… no, 32 times, Siyam is mentioned six times, and Hajj nine times. Let us add these together; these are the numbers of times these basic duties in Islam are mentioned. 7 and 2 is 9, 15, 24… 2 and 6 is 8, and 3 is 11… 114: the same number as the suras of the Quran, 19 times 6.

Okay, that’s not the big deal here. This is profound, but what is really profound is this: you take the word “salat,” everywhere the word “salat” is found in the Quran. Take the number of the sura and the numbers of the verses, the numbers assigned to the ayat, and add them up, and the total for Salat is 4674. This is a multiple of 19.

And then you take Siyam (I’m going to take Siyam first) and do the same thing: you take the numbers of the suras and the numbers assigned to the verses and add them up, and the total is 1387, a multiple of 19. This is 19 times 73. You take Zakat, the 32 of them, everywhere the word “zakat” is found in the Quran. You take the number of the sura and the numbers assigned to the verses, and the total is 2395. Now, the computer did all this. This here is not a multiple of 19; it is up by one. But then you go to Hajj, and you find that the total, in the same manner, is 645. This is not a multiple of 19; it is down by one. But when you add all of them together, the total, of course, is a multiple of 19.

Now watch the message that this gives us. Salat: every Muslim in the world did Salat sometime during his or her life. Every Muslim did. It is the most important duty of every Muslim, Salat, and the number is a multiple of 19. The fasting of Ramadan: every Muslim in the world, before he or she dies, fasted sometime during Ramadan, without exception. Everyone must fast; every Muslim must fast. Rich or poor, they can do it. Now, Zakat is only for the rich. Not every Muslim pays the Zakat, and this is reflected in the fact that this is not a multiple of 19. And the same with Hajj. But together they are multiples. There is a message in the numbers also. You can see the extreme intricacy of the numbers, and the message that comes with them.

Not every Muslim in the world made Hajj before he or she died. Not everyone. But everyone did Salat, everyone fasted, and only the rich pay Zakat. This is up one, and this is down one. So these are the five basic pillars of Islam: that God is One, as I’ve mentioned to you, and these four basic pillars.

Okay, there is more that I will have to talk to you about in the second Khutbah, so turn to Allah, may He be glorified, and repent.

With the continuing research of Ihsan, who has been holding the index of the Quran and adding the numbers of the suras and the numbers of the verses, she’s coming up with this blessed explosion in the miracle, and also putting us to work. We are really sorry that she’s leaving tomorrow, but she does put us to work through the telephone anyway.

Look at this: Sura Qaf, Sura number 50, with the initial Qaf. You take… This is very simple; anybody can do it at home, without a computer. You look at Sura Qaf and look at the ayat where the letter Qaf occurs. You know, we have it in the blue book; you can see Sura Qaf and the verses. You add them up, and you have 798, a multiple of 19. Nineteen means God is One; worship God alone. And this is 19 times 42.

Well, it doesn’t stop here. You know what 42 is? It’s the only other sura that is also initialed with Qaf: Sura 42, Ha Mim, ‘Ayn Sin Qaf. So this interlocking and intertwined relationship of the mathematical code is telling us that this is the only book in the world, in history, that is mathematically composed, that is superhuman. When you read any statement in it, you know this is from your Creator. You have 100 percent confidence: this is God speaking to you.

And this is the importance of it. It never happened before in history, and it will never happen again. This is an original idea of Allah. You will not find such a book. You go to the university: how many books do they have in the university libraries? Millions. Not one of them is mathematically composed. But the Quran is.

I was writing yesterday something that I wrote before, but I want to share it with you. I was writing a book about Jesus, “The Truth About Jesus,” from the Quran, from the Bible, from the Gospels. And an interesting fact, very quickly: I was writing a chapter on Jesus’ birth, and the Quran says, “Inna mathala ‘Isa ‘indallahi ka-mathali Adam.” The creation of Jesus, as far as God is concerned, is equal to the creation of Adam. Jesus equals Adam. In other words, the creation of Jesus is like the creation of Adam: “khalaqahu min turab, thumma qala lahu kun fa-yakun.” God said, “Be,” and it is. He said to Jesus, “Be,” in Mary’s womb, and he was.

So it just happens that in the Quran (and anybody can look at this in the index) both Jesus and Adam are mentioned exactly the same number of times: 25 and 25. I believe the name of Jesus is a multiple of 5 when you look at the numerical values of it, but this will be another Khutbah, Inshallah.

And then I want to pass on to you a valuable experience. In all this work with the miracle of the Quran, and the book on Jesus that is geared to the average American here, we experience interference from Satan that is very clear. And we also found out how to chase him away, and it turns out to be a commandment in the Quran, in Sura 23, where it says it in Arabic. We tried it, and it works, and I want it to work for you. I want you to do it, as my brothers and sisters, because it’s really effective, and it is a commandment in the Quran.

It says, “Wa qul rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin.” “Qul” means “say”; it’s a commandment. “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suggestions of the devils.” Excuse me, this is the literal translation. It would be wonderful if you could learn it in Arabic and say it just like this, because it is a numerical combination. The statement is, “Rabbi a’udhu bika,” (you know most of these words anyway) “Rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin”: “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suggestions of the devils.” “Wa a’udhu bika rabbi an yahdurun”: “And I seek refuge in You, my Lord, lest they come near me.”

So I would suggest that you study this in Arabic and say it. I’m telling you, a thousand times a day is not enough, because the sneaky whisperer, “al-waswas al-khannas,” will grab any chance to come to you and suggest things against Allah, may He be glorified. So this is a very effective commandment, and this is my suggested dhikr, if you want to call it that, because you are making dhikr of Allah: “Rabbi a’udhu bika min hamazatish-shayatin, wa a’udhu bika rabbi an yahdurun.” And we’ll have to rush through, so: Akeem As-Salat.