Freedom in Islam

And a God that has no inclinations or is not overtaken by his anger, does not have tantrums and destroy societies and then feel bad about it and regret.

Doesn't favor one group of people over another. Doesn't favor the children of Israel, nor does he favor the Arabs, nor does he favor the non-Arabs, nor does he favor anybody.

Has no needs, except, or rather has no needs, but that he demands that people worship him, that people serve him. Not because he is in need of them, but because we are in need of him. So the first thing that we come to, to free people from the servitude of worshiping anything besides Allah.

Freedom from the Constriction of This World

We can't even get to the other stuff until we understand this concept. Until we understand what this truly means. And there are other forms of servitude and this kind of ties into the next part too.

There is slavery of one that you love excessively. There is slavery of a standard that society has set. Feeling like you have to dress a certain way.

Feeling like you have to be a certain way to be accepted by society. That's also a form of slavery. Feeling like you have to be anorexic to be beautiful. That's a form of slavery. All of that is slavery. And Islam comes to do away with that.

To make the person, to give the person a sense of self-actualization. The highest of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. To feel beautiful in the sight of the Creator and not worry about the sight of creation.

To be independent of the opinion of others and to have that sense of confidence. That sense of self-actualization. That sense of purpose.

That sense of worth. To really go out there and work for something that is infinite and that never goes away and that will not oppress or wrong them. And then the second thing.

From the constriction of this world, of this life to the vastness of the hereafter. And I want you to think about this. People say, Islam doesn't give us freedom.

Religion doesn't give us freedom. Religion restricts us. Why can't we just all be good people? Even if we all have these various definitions of what it means to be a good person.

Right? Why can't we just be good people? Why can't we just serve God in the way we want to serve Him? Why can't I just pray and not have to worry about this or worry about that? Why do we have all these restrictions? And the fact of the matter first and foremost is that in Islam, everything is permissible. Nothing is restricted unless God made it restricted. So this idea that religion restricts, that the goal of religion is to restrict and to take away a person's freedom is wrong in and of itself.

Divine Wisdom in Prohibition

But on top of that, what God restricts is what is bad for you and what is harmful for you. And if God did not stop us from doing that, then He would not be a merciful God. And I want you to think about this.

I mean, this relates to personal freedom because this is obviously an issue. Personal freedom. You know, this reluctancy to commit.

And instead of committing, I'm just going to claim, I'm going to hide under the guise of spirituality. And I'll just pray more often, engage more in volunteerism. But I don't have to do any of the... I don't have to follow any of the commands or the restrictions.

I can claim to be a good person. I can cover myself under this guise of spirituality and say, my logic doesn't agree with the logic of the Word of God. But here's the issue.

If God did not tell us to stop these things that are wrong for us. Because as we believe in Islam, God did not prohibit anything just for the sake of prohibiting it. He prohibited only what was harmful for us.

And I want you to think about this. He prohibited things that would harm society as a whole. He treated society as a whole.

And He legislated according to the norm of society, not according to the exception. Because many times people will say, why can't I drink alcohol? What's wrong with drinking alcohol? Haven't you heard that scientifically speaking, it's been proven that if you drink a little bit of alcohol, it's actually good for you. It will increase your lifespan.

It will do this, it will do that. Right? Or I'm just a casual drinker. I'm just a social drinker.

What's wrong with that? Go out there and tell a mother who lost her child to a drunk driver that. That you know what? It's okay if we're just social drinkers. If you can control yourself, you're not the norm.

You're the exception. Because the vast majority of times people get addicted. And when they keep on drinking, they do more harmful things.

So God prohibited it as a whole. And sometimes people will say, well, why is it in Islam there's such strictness between men and women? Why can't we go out? Why can't we date? Why can't we go out with one another? Why do we have to keep the hijab between each other, the modesty? Why are we not allowed to touch? Why are we not allowed to engage in intimacy? Why are we not allowed to display our beauty? Right? You know, I don't have any feelings for her. She's like a sister to me.

Right? You know, he's just like my brother. I don't have a problem with him. I can be with him alone.

There's nothing wrong with that. But you're not in the norm then. You're the exception.

Okay? You're the exception. And most likely you're lying about being the exception anyway. But you're the exception.

And God addresses society as a whole. Right? Tell the parents of a girl, a young girl, that was raped. Or that was never treated, given a fair shot at life because she was only looked at for her outer beauty and not for who she was on the inside.

Who was only judged by the amount of cleavage she was showing. That you know what? This is right. This is just.

This is civilization. This is how we're supposed to be. Tell, you know, and we look at our society and we wonder, we say, hey, restriction, restriction, restriction.

Why does Islam legislate restriction? Why do we have things prohibited? Why can't we all just be good people? Do you know how many people die from drunk driving every day? Do you know how many homes have been destroyed by pornography? Do you know how many lives have been destroyed by rape? Do you know how many lives have been destroyed by interest and usury and the financial cheating and transactions that were prohibited in the Quran? So we have this understanding as Muslims that God wants what's best for us. And that when God prohibits, He prohibits because it's in our best interest to have that prohibition. And if we come to that understanding and it's only logical.

Imagine if we observed the true essence of hijab and modesty. Imagine how much better marital relationships would become. Imagine how many lives would be saved there would probably be people standing here today that can't stand here today because they were killed by a drunk driver if alcohol was prohibited.

Imagine how many girls would still be able how many women would still be able to have their self-esteem and would still be able to lead normal lives had they not been raped and molested because they thought that this guy was okay to be around alone and they thought that they could expose certain things to this guy. Imagine how many things would be saved. So when we say God is restrictive, God prohibits too much.

It's all about law, it's all about taking my freedom. That's just like saying that if you stop a child from choking themselves on a Pokemon toy you're restricting that child's freedom.

"God says it in the Quran. God's trying to make things easier for you."

God wants you to do things right. God wants you to make decisions for rational reasons for the best interest of yourself. Do you know what would happen? It's amazing, it's kind of love.

In this society today when we preach abstinence before marriage it's like something that's backwards, that's caveman. Talk about protection, but don't talk about abstinence. Live with the reality of time, talk about protection.

Well say that to a young person who died from AIDS because they forgot to use protection the one time that they didn't bring protection with them. You know, think about this for a moment. When a young girl loses her virginity in high school today on average she's expected to have up to 17 partners in the next 10 years of her life.

That's according to the Pittsburgh Medical Journal. 17 partners because your capacity to trust going from relationship to relationship you're emotionally more broken down. Just jumping from relationship to relationship to relationship thinking this is the one.

Making emotional decisions based on infatuation and then you say marriage in Islam is backwards. The idea of getting to know one another internally and discovering each other's interests and priorities in a permissible fashion, in a controlled gathering that that's backwards? You know what they tell you to do whenever you're considering buying a car? You know what happens when you walk into a car dealership and you're looking at a car and you're saying I just can't afford it. What does he tell you to do? He says take it for a drive.

You'll feel a lot better afterwards. Then you get in the car and you take it for a drive. You get out of the car and you're about to make the dumbest mistake in your life.

You've got a $30,000 debt and you're about to blow $70,000 on a car. Good job. God's trying to make things easier for us.

And as Muslims we have that understanding. As a believer in God you don't just have the understanding that God liberated me from worshiping something else from being able to worship Him and call upon Him directly. Not having to go through an intercessor.

Not having to go through some saint. Not having to go to some grave. Not having to go anywhere.

Just being able to call upon Him, my Creator. That's one. But at the same time, the Creator that I call upon I know that He wants what's best for me. So when He prohibits, I understand it's in my best interest. I understand that I'm just like that child who doesn't understand what's best for them yet. I get it.

I understand. Maybe my logic will not agree with the logic of the prohibition. But I can't say that the prohibition is illogical.

Because I'm a four dimensional creature. You see, you hear, you smell, you touch, and you taste. If you got onto a ride today and a cardboard Spongebob jumped at you you would scream like a little girl.

Knowing that it's not real. But you're a four dimensional creature in creation and soul and body. You don't know and then you have the nerve to say well, I don't think that this makes sense.

I don't think God's making much sense right now. So as long as a person first comes to the idea of worshipping one God then you will understand the second part too. And of course now we look at the systematic aspect of it.

"wa min jawril adyani ila 'adlil Islam" The injustice of all other systems. To the justice of Islam. Now before you get all worried I'm not here to preach that we're going to take over the country with Sharia.

Understanding Sharia and Islamic Justice

We're law abiding citizens. We understand our rights. We understand our responsibilities.

We're good citizens and all that stuff. But at the same time it's important to look back at history. And to at least be able to analyze history justly.

And to understand what was Islam seeking to achieve on a societal perspective. What is Sharia? That they're trying to criminalize in Tennessee. Which on an individual level would mean that we can't even pray anymore.

That praying is a criminal act. That getting married according to Islam is a criminal act. What is it that's being criminalized? What's all this fear about? What is it that Islam preaches on a societal level? What are the rules? What is criminal law in Islam? In an Islamic society in the time of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and his successors were people just being stoned right and left? Were people's heads being chopped off right and left? Were hands being chopped off right and left? Absolutely not.

Allah, God legislated something which gives rights assigns rights to the wife and to the husband. To the child. To the animals.

To the ruler and to the follower. To society. The individual's right upon society and society's right upon the individual.

All of that is addressed clearly in Islam. The right to worship. The right to choose who to marry.

The right to life because guess what? Before Islam, young girls were being buried alive. The right to life. And if you think that religion is what oppresses people then I have news for you.

If you think that the way to bring about a just society is to eliminate religion because essentially what Karl Marx said was religion oppresses people because it subdues them. Religion keeps people paralyzed. It keeps people in a virtual paralysis because they're consistently being told just deal with your situation and don't seek to make your life better.

So the answer is secularism. The answer is a socialist state. The answer is no religion.

And religion is responsible for the world's wars. Then what about world war 2? And can you really tell me that the crusades happened because of Christianity or did they happen because of the economic bankruptcy of Europe? Can you really tell me that Hitler killed 6 million Jews, slaughtered 6 million Jews

because they were Christ killers as he claimed or did the men just really have some issues? I mean, people claim this is all religion's fault. This is Islam.

And we somehow blind ourselves to the reality. We somehow decide to eliminate all other factors and focus in on religion and blame religion. I'm not just talking about Islam.

I'm talking about religion as a whole. Because the rising challenges to religion as a whole that religion is all unjust, that religion is to subdue men, religion is to take away freedom. Well, let's see how that worked out in China.

How did that work out in the Soviet Union? How is that working out in France right now with something that's called prescriptive secularism? It's not working out very well. In fact, it's been worse. And there is no other society that you can claim is more oppressive than North Korea today.

Are they Muslim? Do you see Kim Jong-un walking around with a turban? No. It's a completely secular society. A godless society.

But it didn't work out very well, did it? Just as it doesn't work out very well on an individual basis, it doesn't work out very well on a societal basis. When you claim that the way to achieve peace is to eliminate religion, because the crusades still would have happened, the suicide bombings still would have happened. If you don't believe me, there's a book that I would like you all to read called Dying to Win.

Dying to Win by Robert Pape that analyzes every single suicide bombing of the last 70 years. And there's a political undertone to each and every single one of them. It was introduced by the Japanese kamikazes.

Until today, the largest practitioners are the Tamil Tigers. Guess what? A secular group. It wasn't religion that brought people to that.

It wasn't religion that brought people to that. It wasn't religion that brought the oppression of women. It was Islam that liberated women.

Women's Rights in Islam

And if you don't believe me, then look at the history of Islam and analyze it not according to Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck or... What's the other guy's name? Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh. I don't think anybody respects him anymore.

But at the same time, these people dominate public opinion. They've got sheep all over the place. And not a single one of them has a college degree.

And they're sitting there offering their expert analysis on history and religion and anthropology and sociology. Are you serious? Sean Hannity was in beauty school for two semesters. It doesn't qualify him to

tell us about why Sharia is here to take over the world and the dangers of Islam and the dangers of this and the dangers of that.

But people listen to them. People don't listen to professors of institutions like this. People listen to those guys.

Because it's the hate and the garbage that they want to hear. But analyze things for what they are. If you look at the history of Islam, 1400 years ago, when women were subjugated.

And by the way, this isn't an attack and assault on the Catholic Church because every faith has its dark periods. But the Catholic Church in the year 611. Augustine, what did he say? That women have no souls.

You can go ahead and read it. That was in 611, one year after the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him received revelation. Women were given the right to testimony.

Women were given the right to live. Women were given the right to choose who to marry. Women were given the right to pursue divorce.

Women were given the right to own property. Women were given the right to not only vote, but to participate in public systems. Women were given the right... We're sitting here fighting over whether or not women can be priests.

And someone would say, well, how come women can't be Imams? Because Imams are not even the highest thing in Islam. Women can occupy positions of scholarship, ulama, hadith, transmission of hadith, which is greater than an Imam. Imam is just the guy that leads the prayer.

A woman can occupy the position of a scholar and can certify Imams. A woman in Islam can be a scholar of hadith, can transmit a tradition from the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. And by the way, Imam al-Dhahabi (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ),one of the great scholars, he said that there is no documentation in history of a weak woman narrator.

Never. There is complete integrity in all of the female narrators of hadith. Women participated not only in choosing the khalifah, they actually had roles in governance.

And you find this even as early as the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a, three years after the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam, al-Shifa' bint Abdullah al-'Adawiyya, who was in charge, who oversaw the validity of all of the marketing transactions in the entire Muslim nation. So while we're sitting here fighting about female priesthood, women priesthood, and women being able to vote, which we only had a few years ago, Islam guaranteed this 1400 years ago. Assign the rights to everyone.

Slavery and Freedom in Islam

Slavery, right? When was slavery done away with in society? And people will look at Islam and then they'll say, well Islam is not like... The problem is that we criticize Islam and we ignore the faith traditions that existed around that time, including the traditions of Judaism and Christianity. There are very clear instructions of slavery in Deuteronomy until today, in Genesis until today. It's the Old Testament, you can say it's abrogated, that's fine, but these were realities of society.

And Islam was the first religion to give women the right to testimony. There is an inheritance, inheritance. Women never had rights to inheritance in any organized system, in any faith before Islam.

Find me a single verse in any previous scripture that gave women the right to inherit. It's in the Qur'an. And not the Qur'an, not the new international Qur'an, or not the teen Qur'an, or not the American Qur'an, or not the revised standard, revised international modern edition of the Qur'an.

1400 years ago, women were assigned the right to inherit. Justice. Slavery.

In Islam, and as Al-Izz ibn Abdus Salam rahim Allah said, (التَّشَوُّقُ لِلْحُرِّيَّةِ الشارع - "at-tashawwuq lil-hurriyyah ash-shari'") Allah legislated out of his desire to free, to grant men freedom, men and women freedom.

Slavery. In a society where slaves were brutally beaten.

Islam limited the, Islam limited slavery, and I'll explain what slavery is, to prisoners of war. And what does that mean? Now you say, okay, prisoners of war, now that doesn't sound very nice, neither does Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib. But at the same time, what are prisoners of war in Islam? What is the slavery that Islam allowed, that Islam restricted? Islam did not allow them to even call their slaves slaves.

You have to feed your slave, your prisoner of war, what you would feed yourself. You have to clothe him with what you would clothe yourself. You have to give that, negotiate a person, it's called indenture servitude, by the way.

You want to research it from a historical point of view. It's not even slavery. People say, oh, slavery exists, slavery existed.

You have to negotiate a contract with your prisoner of war, with the slave, to be able to get out of slavery. There has to be something reasonable, or else the judge is going to step in and make it reasonable. No one can be born into slavery.

You can't enslave people based on color or whatever it is. And Islam encouraged you to free your slaves. And not only that, if you... I mean, think about it. What would be the point of keeping a slave in your house? If you can't call him a slave, you got to feed him what you've got to feed yourself. You've got to clothe him with what you've got to clothe yourself. You're not allowed... God is more capable of feeding you.

You're not allowed to do that. What's the point of having a slave? That's not having a slave, that's bringing another child into your home. Indenture servitude.

Islam eliminated that. And you would find that Muslims, even when the legislation came, even when they were freeing their slaves, because of the good treatment that they had. Umar ibn Abdulaziz rahimahullah.

And I'm not... Again, this was so that every man should eventually become free. Umar ibn Abdulaziz rahimahullah, when he assumed the leadership, the caliphate, one of the most famous leaders. And he had 36 slaves and he freed them.

36 people were clinging on to his doors, crying to be taken back into his household. Because they enjoyed his company. They weren't being beaten. They weren't being fed any less. They weren't being treated as lesser members of society. So what was the point? What was the point of keeping a slave? And it was in our faith that again, Umar ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu anhu, by the way, according to Michael Hart.

Michael Hart, he's the 56th most influential man in world history. I'm sorry, 52nd most influential man in world history. Who has a statement that today is in the United Nations Charter.

Umar ibn Al-Khattab has a statement today that's in the United Nations Charter. How can you enslave a man that was born free? That's from Umar ibn Al-Khattab. And it didn't just apply to non-Muslims and so on, to Muslims and non-Muslims, whatever it was.

It applied to everybody. And in fact, under his rule, Umar ibn Al-Khattab, whenever there was a man, Amr ibn Al-As radiAllahu anhu, the governor of Egypt, whenever his son was racing with a Coptic Christian, and he lost the race and he lashed him on the face, Umar ibn Al-Khattab did not just sit back and say, Oh, he's a non-Muslim anyway. He's just a slave anyway.

Umar ibn Al-Khattab said, Bring him to Medina. When he came to Medina and he complained to Umar ibn Al-Khattab, Umar said, Bring the guy that lashed him and bring the one in whose name he was lashed, meaning his father, who was a great companion. And he handed him the whip and he said, You whip him and you whip his father because he whipped you in the name of his father.

That's justice. That's real justice. We're not talking about some superficial text.

We're not talking about something that wasn't applied. We're talking about true justice. Oh, what about non-Muslims living under Islamic rule? How did they live? Weren't they just being tortured? Weren't they just like, weren't they being, you know, subjugated and things of that sort? Doesn't God say in the Qur'an that when they pay their jizya, which means that they should be (صَاغِرُونَ - saghiroon)", that they should be belittled.

Read the meaning of that verse. Read what Imam al-Shafi'i said about that. He said saghiroon simply means that they're accepting the legitimacy of the authority over them.

They're accepting the Muslim rule. They're accepting the Islamic state whenever they're living in that state. It's as simple as that.

They pay their taxes. We pay our taxes here too. And you know what? On top of that, why do they pay a tax? And who paid a tax? Right? The jizya, the jizya, the jizya, the jizya.

We're going to come to America and we're going to bring Sharia and legislate the jizya. That's what's being put out there. That's the fear.

We're going to subjugate non-Muslims. No. Muslims have to pay zakat, which is 2.5% of their savings.

Their livestock, jewelry, right? Muslims had to pay that. Non-Muslims didn't have to pay that. They paid a tax that was less than that.

And in fact, only young men who were capable of serving in the army had to pay that tax. And if they decided to serve in the army too, they wouldn't have to pay that tax. Think about that for a moment.

They had total protection. The payment was for protection. To be guarded just like anyone else in the state.

You pay your taxes to the Department of Defense. And if the Department of Defense bailed you, you know what happens whenever... If something happens to us today, Uncle Sam is not going to come knocking on our door and say, look, you paid some money to the army and we didn't do our job, here you go. Khalid ibn al-Walid, whenever the people of Homs in Syria, may Allah, may God free them from their oppressor, whenever they were attacked, there were some Christians that were attacked there that were supposed to be under Muslim rule.

He wrote a long letter of apology and he gave them all back the jizya. He said, we failed you guys. We don't deserve this.

Justice. They weren't subjugated. They weren't treated less.

Religious Freedom Under Islamic Rule

And in fact, they were allowed to worship. They were allowed to keep their churches. They were allowed to keep their synagogues.

We're sitting here talking about freedom of religion. When Umar bin Khattab entered into Jerusalem, just 12 years after the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. When he entered into Jerusalem and the patriarch of Rome took him to show him the Church of Nativity.

And the patriarch of Rome said, Hey Umar, you know what? You're the leader of the Muslims. You're our new ruler. Why don't you pray? Your dhuhr here.

Your noon prayer here. He said, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to do that.

He said, let me pray outside. Let me pray outside. Because if I pray here, then some Muslims are going to come later on and they're going to say that this is a masjid and it's not a church.

Let me go outside and pray. The leader, the ruler. He takes a few steps outside of the church and he prays in front of the church.

And by the way, there is now a masjid there called Masjid Umar. The guy had some vision. He's like, I know how my people are.

I know what's going to happen. If I pray here, they're going to say, Umar bin Khattab prayed here. This is Muslim territory.

The Church of Nativity. So the patriarch, I'm sorry. I want you guys to be able to keep this church.

I want this to remain for you. They were allowed under Islamic rule, under Islamic state again. They were allowed to have churches.

They were allowed to worship. They were allowed to be judged according to their laws. They weren't subjected to Sharia law.

They were allowed to be judged according to their laws, by their scholars, by their... And somehow, what are we seeing today? That the minority in this country, a minority of Muslims, is becoming the victim, is becoming the victim because of an increasingly intolerant majority of politicians and legislators.

As Keith Ellison said, civil rights are becoming a popularity contest. If you were to ask people 40 years ago, how many of you want Japanese to be in internment camps? You would have gotten a pretty high number.

And that can't be allowed. It's not allowed in Islam. It never was allowed in Islam.

And in fact, in Spain, in Spain, I want you to research an article called Islam and the Common Law. When Spain was conquered, Andalusia was conquered, and it was under Muslim rule. It was conquered by Christians. The Christian population of Spain wrote a letter to Pope Urban saying, look, we want you to rule us the same way that the Muslims ruled us. We enjoy certain rights under the Muslims.

You better not come and take them away from us. That's historically documented. Don't subjugate us.

We were living free. We were living with dignity. We were living with rights.

We were living with honor. And if you read in Jewish history, you know, I was very involved. We had Muslim-Jewish dialogue in New Orleans. A good friend of mine, Rabbi Uri, and he was showing me textbooks in Jewish history that called the golden age of Judaism under Islam. That Jews were only

allowed, were only able to flourish and practice their faith freely and grow under Islamic rule, historically speaking. Their golden age existed under Islamic rule.

Historical Examples of Islamic Justice

Muslims were not subjugating Christians and Jews to the sword. And in fact, Umar Ibn Abdulaziz, which this was only 80 years after the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Umar Ibn Abdulaziz, Rahimahullah.

How much time do I have left, by the way? Okay. I got no answer. So I'll end in five minutes.

Umar Ibn Abdulaziz, when he conquered, whenever the Muslims conquered a place called Samarkand, which is in the territory of Iraq. Samarkand. And it was inhabited by Christians.

Whenever it was conquered, and he found that the people that conquered, they did not treat them well. They destroyed some churches. They didn't give any fair invitation.

They didn't deal with the fair ethics of war. He sent his army back to Samarkand. He said, give them back the keys to their city.

We're talking about 1300 years ago. We're not talking about the year 2000. 1300 years ago.

Give them back the keys to their city. Reconstruct the two churches that you destroyed and leave. And then three days later, they called him back and said, we're Muslim now, you can come back.

Because they saw that mercy and that love. You want to see the beauty and the mercy that Islam came with? The freedom that Islam came with? Read what Salah ad-Din was able to do. Saladin.

And don't tell me it's about kingdom of heaven. It's not about kingdom of heaven. I know people said kingdom of heaven, favorite Muslims. But you know what? Even kingdom of heaven did not give Salah ad-Din his due right. And that's historically just factual. Read any book written by a Christian or a Muslim on the way Salah ad-Din dealt with.

Dealt with the Crusaders. Dealt with the Christians who inhabited Jerusalem. Whenever it came back to the Muslim world.

And you would see mercy compassion freedom the freedom to be who you are. And then will you say this is the last claim. But you know what? All that is fine and dandy.

Addressing Misconceptions About Islamic Criminal Law

But if you live in a Muslim country and you're going to get stoned to death, you're going to have your hand cut off. People are going to be walking around like this. Right? Like in Afghanistan.

People are always going to be walking around hurt. There are going to be people in the street flogging you. And that's supposed to be Islam.

I have something to share with you that I know that many of you most of you being Muslims will object to. But I have my source. And that's Imam Ibn Taymiyyah who's called the scholar of Islam for a reason.

And when we talk about the crime of adultery the crime of stoning. And by the way, biblically there are 12 things that legislate there are 12 penalties that legislate capital punishment biblically speaking. There are only 2 in Islam.

There are 12 in the Bible. I'm just saying. Okay? There were 273 in the United Kingdom until 1970 including attacking a hospital.

That mandated capital punishment. Right? And then you say, well it's that. The adulteress is stoned.

The adulterer is stoned. This is a cruel society. This person is going to be stoned.

This person is going to be stoned. That's probably all they were doing everyday. They kick back.

They drink tea. They'll smoke their hookah. And then they'll start stoning people.

That's what a Muslim society looks like. Ibn Taymiyyah, he said that from the time of the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam the 600s to his time 1200s we're talking about a span of 700 years not a single person was stoned because of adultery out of being caught. Not one.

Ibn Taymiyyah