Friday Sermon by: Rashad Khalifa, Imam of Masjid Tucson

Summary:

In this Friday sermon, Rashad Khalifa describes a visiting Saudi university official who objected to seeing God’s name alone on the masjid wall, and reads absurd traditional writings about the “light of Muhammad.” He then shares new findings on the mathematical miracle (the words “Quran,” “messenger” and “one,” the Bismillahs and the total number of verses) and reports that a predicted series of government changes in the Muslim world has come true.

Video Transcript:

There’s a big switch this year. This marks a new era, and the switch is from the religious leaders, like the Pope and the Jewish leaders and the Muslim leaders, to academia: the academic people, who include Jews, Christians and Muslims, who will look at the data of the Quran objectively and then tell the world about it, adding the credibility of academic research. This is what’s happening this coming year.

Yesterday, we had the vice president of the biggest Islamic university in Saudi Arabia and three of his people come here and discuss the matter of worshiping God alone, and you know all their arguments. But one thing happened that stands out, that I don’t think you or I will ever forget, and it’s something that I don’t think Satan himself would dare do. That man objected to having this on the wall by itself. He wanted Muhammad next to it. Instead of being pleased with seeing the name of God on the wall, he actually criticized it. I mean, unbelievable as this may be.

We have a sign on the wall out there saying, “Happiness is devotion to God.” And that sign pleases all the believers in God, including Jews and Christians; even the hardcore Jesus worshipers are pleased with it. They call us and tell us how much it pleases them to drive by and see it in the morning, or in the evening. But this man was upset to see the name of God alone up there.

These people worship Muhammad, just like the Christians worship Jesus. I mean, they’re all human beings, and they’re all victims of Satan in the same way. I want to read for you some of the writings about Muhammad. Actually, I don’t want to do that, because it’s kind of crazy; I’d rather concentrate on our positive data. But since I opened the page, I will read just a couple of things to give you an idea, and then I will get to our good results.

Okay. The title is “The Creation of the Greatest Ruh,” or spirit, and it is the light of “our master and Prophet Muhammad,” is what they’re saying, “peace and blessings be upon him.” It says here, “Then God, Allah Ta’ala, looked at that light again, and it sweated from modesty before God. From the sweat of its nose, God created the angels.” This is now the light of Muhammad. “From the sweat of its face, He created the Throne.” Poor God didn’t have any throne to sit on until the light of Muhammad sweated on its face. “He created the Throne, the Footstool, the Tablet, the Pen, the sun, the moon, the veils and the stars, and what is in the heavens. From the sweat of its breast, He created the prophets, the messengers, the ulama,” no wonder, “the martyrs and the salihun,” that is, the righteous people. It just goes on and on. “From the sweat of its back, and from the sweat of the two eyebrows, He created the community of Muhammad.” And the Muslims, both men and women, were all created from the sweat of the eyebrows of Muhammad.

There is a part here: “Then God commanded all the souls of creation to look at the form of Muhammad, and so they looked at it. Whoever saw his hand became a khalifa.” I don’t want my name in there. In parentheses: “ruler and sultan among creatures.” “Whoever saw his forehead became a just prince. Whoever saw his eyes became one who preserves the word of Allah.” And it goes on like that. “Whoever saw his lips became a cabinet minister. Whoever saw his nose became a doctor. Whoever saw his mouth became one who fasts. Whoever saw his teeth became one who is beautiful of face among men and women.” I’m going to skip here. “Whoever saw his neck became a merchant. Whoever saw his breast became a scholar. Whoever saw his abdomen became one who does ruku’ and sujood.” By the way, they skipped from here down. “Whoever saw his feet became a hunter. Whoever saw his shadow became a singer.”

There’s another place here: “Whoever saw his fingers became a scribe. Whoever saw the fingers of his right hand became a tailor, and whoever saw his left hand became an ironsmith. Whoever saw his left palm became a miser. Whoever saw the back of his right hand became a cook.” Do we have any cooks here? “Whoever saw his right palm became a money changer and embroiderer,” whatever the relationship is. “Whoever saw his left palm became a corn measurer.” You know, the corns that grow on your toes? “Whoever saw his throat became a muezzin.” There’s some place where somebody saw some finger and became a carpenter, and so on. But I’m going to close with this; this is ridiculous: “Whoever saw nothing became a Jew, a Christian, a Zoroastrian or a kafir,” a disbeliever. So there are no carpenters among the Jews, and there are no tailors among the Christians. It’s nonsense, a bunch of nonsense. And this man had the gall to say, “Why do you have God alone on the wall?”

Now let’s get to the serious, positive work that we’re doing. I was visiting with my brother in California last weekend, and we checked on some of the results of the research. He got hold of the index of the Quran, and we looked up a few words. I just want you to be most familiar with this great, great miracle. God calls it one of the greatest miracles. It will show you that when you read the Quran, you are reading God’s message to you. It will give you full confidence that it is not just any human being who wrote the Quran and is fooling you, or that its statements are not reliable or trustworthy. You will have full confidence. So I’m going to keep informing you, keeping you up to date with this information.

My brother looked up the word “Quran” in the index of the words of the Quran, which counts every word and is proven to be correct, except as far as the count of the word “Allah” is concerned, where they made the same mistake that the computer made; you know about that. He found that the list said 58. But in Sura number 10 there is one statement where the disbelievers say, “Bring us a Quran other than this one.” So you remove that, minus one, and the mention of “Quran” is 57, 19 times 3. And when you take the numbers assigned to the chapters and the numbers assigned to the verses where this word is found, the total is 2660, which is a multiple of 19: 19 times 140.

And then we looked up the word “messenger,” and he found in the index that the total was 116. You see, a person who doesn’t know looks at this and says, “Well, this number is not a multiple of 19.” But one of these 116 is the messenger of Pharaoh, in chapter 12: the messenger of Pharaoh went to Joseph to ask him about the dream of the king. So he removed that. Another “rasool” is mentioned in the last two verses of Sura 9. So there are two of them that you remove, and you have a total of 114. Okay, these are things that you should be familiar with: 19 times 6.

And then we looked up the word “one,” “wahid,” and it said 25. But six of them had nothing to do with God. That God is one is mentioned in the Quran 19 times, and when you take the numbers assigned to the chapters and the numbers assigned to the verses, they add up to a total which is a multiple of 19. So I will let you absorb this much, which was repeated before, and think about it, as we all repent and ask God to forgive us and help us along His right path.

We praise God, and we bear witness that He is the only Lord and Savior. There is only one God. Lisa Spray continues to make discoveries, and she wants to share with us what she found out lately by adding the verse and sura numbers. This is what God wants to teach us now: that the numbers assigned to the verses and the numbers assigned to the chapters are dictated by God Himself. They are not man-made. Also the sequence of the chapters as we have it: miraculously, the sequence of the chapters has nothing to do with the sequence of revelation of the chapters.

As you know, this is very simple, and you’re going to remember it and see how everything in the Quran is divine, not man-made. We have a missing Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim in chapter 9; there is no Bismillah. And we know that this is made up in chapter 27. There, there is zero Bismillah, and here there are two. And you know that when you count the suras, starting with number 9 here and ending here, you have 19 suras between the missing Bismillah and the extra Bismillah. There’s an opening Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim in this sura, and then in verse 30 we see the Queen of Sheba receiving a letter from Solomon, and the letter was “In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful,” Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim, in verse 30.

Now, very simply, any of you can go home and do this: add 9, plus 10, plus 11, plus 12, up to 27. The total is 342, 19 times 18. Now see, why did God eliminate the Basmalah, the Bismillah, from this chapter and put it in this chapter? This particular series of numbers, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 up to 27, when you add them up, gives you this total, 342. But this is half the story. It turns out that these two Bismillahs are in the opening, let’s say verse 0, and then you find the extra Bismillah in verse 30. You count the number of words between the two Bismillahs, and it is this number. How do you like that? I mean, it’s a design that nobody can dream up: the number of words between the two Bismillahs.

So this is all I want you to know. There’s one more thing; there’s just so much. I was talking to Ismail Barakat in Canada today, and he used a word that I can’t remember. It’s not “explode,” but he said the miracle is exploding. I’m going to remember the expression he used, which was perfect. But this is what’s happening now. It’s really a blessed explosion, to overwhelm the world and to show how blind the top religious leaders are, like the man who objected to having the name of Allah alone on the wall. If there is a pope in Islam, this is the second man. He’s the vice president of the top Islamic university, and he knows nothing about the miracle. In fact, they were so pitifully ignorant, I didn’t even want to open the discussion on it or say anything about it.

And interestingly, they didn’t want to talk about it, and they didn’t attack it, which tells me that there are some quarters in Saudi Arabia that have discovered the truthfulness of the miracle and told these people, so they don’t want to discuss it. And for the first time, they never attacked it. They didn’t say, “Bismillah is so many letters,” or… It was the first time. I learned a lot by discussing these matters with them.

The other thing that Lisa wrote down here was the number of verses from the first Quranic initials, A.L.M., in Sura 2, verse 1. You count the verses (this is a huge number now), you add up the verses all the way to the word 19 in the Quran (that’s right, you know what I’m going to say), and the total is 5515. Now, there are many angles to this miracle, and one of the things that we must not ignore is the Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim at the head of the suras. Between this verse and this verse here, which is 74:30, there are 71 Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahims. And when you add these, the total comes to 5586, or 19 times 294.

The Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahims are recognized as unnumbered verses, and they are counted when you add up all the verses of the Quran. Including the 112 unnumbered Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahims, the total is a multiple of 19. It is 6346. Right. This is 19 times 334. This is the total number of verses in the Quran, including all the Bismillahs, 112 of them.

There are a few more items that I would like to talk to you about, but we’re running out of time, so I will mention one more item that came across via satellite. One of our people in Morocco, his name is Yacoubi Kamal, called, and he read from the Muslim Perspective of September 1986, Muharram 1st, 1406, where I had consulted the Quran, and the message was loud and clear. After seeking refuge in God from Satan, I wrote this. I said, “Almost all present governments in the region will reject and scoff at this offer.” If you recall, I had sent letters to every president and every king of every Muslim country in the world, the Arab and Muslim countries, and I invited them, with evidence, to form a United Islamic Nation.

And when I consulted the Quran (I will show you the verse in Sura 9, by the way), it says, “Do they not see that they are put to the test once or twice every year?” And this caused me to add this: “Consequently, there will be a change of government in that region at the rate of at least three governments every two years,” because once or twice a year means three every two years, “until a government comes with the specific objective of joining the United Islamic Nation.”

Now, this looks like a flaky thing to some people, but it turns out to be true. Exactly two years after the publication of this statement, Habib Bourguiba, the president of Tunisia, was removed, and a new government was installed. And this happened next door to our brother Kamal. So we had three governments fall: the government of Sudan, President Numeiri, remember him? And the government of Yemen, President Ali Nasser Muhammad. And finally, the third one was President Bourguiba of Tunisia.

Now, for those dictators, the most important thing, the only thing they care about in life, is their throne, their government. And the only thing that will make them do anything or move at all is the fear that their throne is threatened. It’s the only way they’ll do anything. They also act as if they will live forever. They all do. And they never learn from their past experiences. But I wanted you to be aware of this, and I find it very interesting that in the two years we did have three of those governments fall. By the way, those governments were named; I did name the governments that received that letter.

So we’ll see what happens. I’m going to write it in the new Perspective. I’m going to ask the question, “Who’s going to be next?” And I’m going to mail it to all the presidents and kings of that area. So may God guide us all and help us to be in His kingdom.