Ep 8: He Redefined What Sacrifice Means | Abraham Series | Nouman Ali Khan | Dhul Hijjah 2025

0:00 Last time on what everyone should know about Abraham. No other prophet of Allah was told to do the kinds of sacrifices burn and jump into a fire or you know slaughter your own child et no other prophet was put in that position the way Ibraimisam was. Right in today's episode by the way the sacrifice is the single most important story possibly in all of the world's history. How do we know we believe the right religion? Listen to this carefully. We believe that this religion is true for two basic reasons. One of those reasons is with stars above the sun and the moon, a boy asked questions and search for the truth. He smashed their lies to

0:47 enter the blaze they threw, but to their surprise the fires they caught. He sacrificed a ram submitting to God's rule and built with his son a legacy renewed. What everyone should know about Abraham Alisam. Before we start, did you know there's a workbook that goes with this episode? Download it at our website so you can follow along, take notes, and do fun activities after. Ibrahimisam was I I I have to share this part with you. You guys need to know this. Ibrahimisam had um a son very late in life. He was

1:33 pretty much a 100 years old when he had his first child and and the first child he had wasam. No, not the first child he had was isam. And then if we follow the Bible's reading about 14 years later he had another child isam. So two pro you need to know this stuff. He had two kids that we need to know about. He had other kids too but we these are two of the the one we need to know about is the older brother and is Hak is the younger brother. Ismael was born from a different wife and is Hak was born from a different wife. So they were half brothers to each other but their dad is Ibrahimam. Okay. Who's older? Tell me again. Good. Isam. Okay.

2:21 And how much age difference between them? 14 years. 14 years. Okay. Now listen. Isam is after many thousands of years from is children's children's children eventually the prophet Muhammad was born sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So even though prophet Muhammad sallallaihi wasallam is one of the great great great great grandchildren of Ibraimisam he's also a grandchild of Iselisam who's the other prophet ishak is this is going to be the hard one to remember ishakisam had a son named Yakob

3:06 Yakob so Ibraim is hak and then yak and Yakob had a son named Ysef. Yakub had a son named Ysef. Okay, let me start at the top again. Ibraim, how many sons? Who? Which two sons? Is and Okay. Is from his children eventually comes who? Prophet Muhammad wasam. Okay. Is what's is son's name? Yakob. What's Yakob's son's name? Ysef. And eventually from the brothers of Ysef and their children a long time later came Musa, Harun, Zakariah, Sullean, Doud. Oh, so

3:51 many prophets came from the ishak side. So from the most of the prophets mentioned in the Quran, most of them are from the Isak side of the family and only one prophet is from the is side of the family. Which prophet? Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. This is very important. So most of the prophets you read about like even when you read about Miam right or you read about Isaam or you read about Yaham or you read about uh uh yeah of course Ysef Alam we already mentioned or Disam many of those prophets all of them are coming from which family is so Ibraimisam these two sons of his became two big giant families

4:40 I forgot. So you have to tell me what is son's name. Yes, young man. Tell me. Yakob. Yakob has two names. Yakob has two names. One name is Yakob and the other name is Isel. One name is Yakob and the other name is Isel. So the sons of Yak are also called the sons of is you. That's right. You with me? Okay. Now who was the older son of of Ibraim? Who was the older son? Isam. Ismaelam. Allah told Ibraimisam

5:27 that he's going to have a child. He was very very old. He was now living with his wife. at the time and they were by themselves and the angels came and gave them news that he's going to have uh you know is and some say that that story is actually about is but regardless I'll tell you something about isam Allah Allah told Ibraimisam to leave is and his wife in the middle of the desert where yeah near Saf and Marwa you guys know the story that story is not detailed in the Quran But a part of it is Ibraimisam left. And then he came back and he came back when Ismael was let's say 7 8 9 years old. So

6:13 he was a young boy now. He wasn't too big but he was big enough that he can they can run around and play together. So Ibraimisam comes back. He's living with his family in Mecca. There's his ma his wife and also his son is there's no is yet. There's no is yet. And now Allah gave him his next test. And that's what we're going to read about. Okay, you guys. I know many of you know the test, but I want to go through it in some detail. Okay? When he reached the same age that he could run around with his son, he told his son, "I keep seeing in my dream that I am sacrificing you. I'm slaughtering you

7:00 like an animal is slaughtered. That's pretty tough. He sees that he is slaughtering who? His son. His first son. His first his only son. His first son. I have uh alhamdulillah I have eight children. And my youngest son is almost two years old. And I can't imagine reading these ayats and feeling what Iam must have felt because the thing about when you have a baby or when you have a child and if they're crossing the street or they ran into the street and there's a truck coming, what will a father do?

7:47 They'll come in front of the truck and throw the child out out of the way, right? without a second thought. The human being or every species on this planet thinks about survival of the self. But when it comes to your child, you're willing to sacrifice yourself to protect your child. You do anything to protect your child. I want you to understand how heavy this thing is that Allah told Ibraimisam. Ibraimisam when he was a young man, he had a dad. And when he had a dad, his dad didn't like him very much because of what he said about the truth. His dad was so angry with him that he was okay with sacrificing Ibraim. Remember, he was willing to throw him into a fire. His own dad was

8:34 willing to throw him into a fire. That must have hurt a lot. That must have been very painful to be thrown into a to be willing to be thrown into a fire by your own father. But at least I would have imagined Ibrahimam would have said what kind of father would be okay with sacrificing their own son. I would never do something like that. Why would I ever Why would anyone do something so terrible as being okay with sacrificing their own son? And then what did Allah show him? Allah showed him a dream that he is doing what? sacrificing his son, which is exactly what who had already tried to do? His own dad. And that's something he would never want to do himself. He would

9:21 never want to do that. So he when he first saw that as a dream, he thought, "It can't be real. It must be a nightmare." He saw it again and he saw it again and he saw it again and then he turns to this boy that he loves so much and he says I keep seeing in my dream that I'm doing this unthinkable thing I'm slaughtering you but he when he told him he knew that his son is very smart he knew that when he told his son I see this in my dream his son will understand that means Allah is showing it to you to to him so his son said yeah abati same words, "Dad, I love you." Dad, I love you. By the way, it's so cool that many years ago when Ibraim was young, he said those words to his father. And many

10:06 years later, when Ibraim is a dad, his son is saying those same words to him. Yeah. Abati, my beloved father, dad, I love you. Do whatever you've been told to do. Do whatever you've been told to do. So this boy tells his dad to do whatever he's been told to do. Okay. You will find inshallah that I am from those that are patient. Okay, they both went and they both surrendered because it was hard for the son to give up. It's hard for a son to say, "Yeah, put take a knife and put it next to my neck. That's impossible." And then on top of that for a father to do that to his own child but they both accepted it and he put his head down on

10:53 the rock and he laid his head down on the side and Allah stopped him. Allah told him that's enough. That's enough. You fulfilled the dream. This is very hard for people and it might be very hard for you. There are people I know that you know they're they're Christians. They believe in this story too. They have their own version of the story, but they they they are no longer Christian because of the story. They left Christianity and they no longer believe in God because of the story. They say, "What kind of God would tell a father to do what? To kill his own son." What kind of sick instruction is that? How can you believe

11:41 this is a God that loves you, that cares for you, that provides for you, that wants what's best for you, and then that same God turns around and tells you to do what? Kill your own? Kill your own child. This is unthinkable. I don't want to be part of a religion where you teach that dads should be killing their sons and that's going to make God happy somehow. That was his reason. That's why he didn't follow Christianity anymore. But do we have almost the same story? We do. We do have the same story. And did Allah ask Ibrahimam to sacrifice his son? Yeah. Is that still a disturbing thing? Many of you dads are sitting next to your sons. It's hard for you and me to

12:27 imagine that we can't even go. My mind can't even go that far. Even visualizing that is impossible. I can't even go that far. How do you I need the fathers and the children here to understand the story because they missed something and I'm I'm trying to get this session to make sure you understand something about the sacrifice. This whole discussion is going to be about one thing, the sacrifice. The sacrifice, by the way, the sacrifice is the single most important story possibly in all of the world's history. this one. Do you know why? Because this story was used by the Jews to turn their religion into what it is today. This story was used by the

13:14 Christians to turn Christianity to what it is today. Our difference with the Jews and the Christians all comes from what? This not not even the story of Ibrahim, the sacrifice. The sacri and I'll show you how. But I need you to understand why did Allah make Ibrahim do such a thing anyway? Why did he make him go through this exercise? Who remembers what I said about religions in the past? What kind of gods there used to be? What were some of those qualities? What what those god's personalities were like that people believed in? Yes, young man. So, um they get angry very easily. they get angry very easily and then what they if you need if um if

14:02 they if you need something you have to give it to them it's like a transaction it's a transaction and and by the way very good that's all you need to remember that's good you know in many this is true in many religions they would really want the rain to come and it wasn't coming and they said there's this god must be angry with us we must make the god a sacrifice we must make that god happy but the god's not going to He's not going to give us good rain if we don't give him a painful sacrifice. So, I think we need to take one of the girls from the village and slaughter that girl, kill that girl and put the girl blood of that girl in front of this god and then the rain will come. Or there's a village that's about to attack us. The the god of war is not going to help us in this war until we take one of our babies and throw him off a cliff. And people did this. People did this. This is real. This happened. Human

14:49 sacrifice happened all the time in these religions. All the time. In fact, there are even some pagan religions in Mexico right now. Just last year, there was a story of some village in Mexico who wanted, I don't know, better weather or something, and they took one of their teenage girls, tied her up, left her in in a cave up in the mountains to die and freeze to death. Human sacrifice to please the gods. They did this all the time. By the way, Christianity eventually they they even they couldn't let go of this idea. And they said, "Well, God does doesn't want us to sacrifice anymore." So, who did he sacrifice? His own son, and here's all the blood and whipping and lashing and, you know, being put on the crucifix. Somebody has to pay with blood for God to finally be okay. God will not give

15:36 you what you want until you pay with blood somehow. Right? Allah asked Ibraim. Because Ibrahimam when he was born, when he was raised, was he raised in one of these religions with six sacrifices? He was that was the normal around him. And later on Allah told him, I want you to give me a sacrifice. And what sacrifice do I want from you? Your son. But there's a difference. I need you to understand the difference. In every other religion, when do you do a sacrifice? Want something. When you want something. You do a sacrifice when you want something. Did I ask for anything? He didn't ask for anything. Allah is asking him. He's not asking Allah. He's not asking Allah, "Ya Allah,

16:22 I want this, that, or the other." And he'll say, "Okay, you want that? Sacrifice your son." There is no exchange. There's no give me this, I'll give you that. Allah is already teaching us something about our religion that is not like any other religion. In our religion, it's not an exchange. We don't say, "I will give Allah salah, then Allah will give me a 95 on my biology test." There is no exchange. Allah is not doing a sales deal with us. He makes a demand but he doesn't say if you do this I will give you that. Is that clear? That's the first difference. Here's the second difference. He tries to go and do the sacrifice. And as he's about to do it, does Allah let it happen or does Allah stop it?

17:09 Everything about the life of Ibraimisam was about demonstration. Listen to this word demonstration. When he was a kid, he said this sun, this moon, this star, this must be God. What was that? It was a demonstration. When he broke all the idols and said the big one did it, that was what that was a demonstration, wasn't it? Every time there is some kind of a demonstration, Allah wanted to show not only the Muslims, not only Ibraim, but he wanted to show every human being that will ever live in this world that the true religion of Allah is a religion in which your God does not demand a sacrifice even though you're willing

17:54 to do it because you think what Allah that's what Allah wants. Right as he's about to do it, Allah says, "No, no, no. That's not what I want from you." Just slaughter any animal. That's okay. Celebrate the fact. What? What does that prove? I'm willing to do anything for Allah. I'll do anything for Ibrahim will do anything for Allah. Even sacrifice his own child. He'll even do that for Allah. But but Allah is not asking him for sacrifice. Allah is asking him something much much much less. Even though we are willing to do much more, Ibrahim is willing to do much more. Allah wants to ask him much less. Allah was showing the world Islam is not a religion that wants you to hurt yourself or anyone else you love. Islam is not a

18:42 religion in which you need to sacrifice or go through pain before Allah is pleased with you. That's not this religion. No more sacrifices to make a god happy. No more suffering to make a god happy. Are there difficulties in this life? Yeah, but they're not sacrifices. They're tests. They're not sacrifices. They're not I'm putting you through difficulty so you can go to Jenna. If somebody has a good life, they're let's say somebody here is a has a good job, has a good home, has is healthy, their children are okay, they pray five times a day, they eat only the halal, they stay away from the haram, and they have a good easy life. And they start thinking, well, I have no difficulty in my life. Nobody in

19:27 my family has cancer. Nobody died of a car accident. Nothing bad ever happened. I don't think I'm going to Jenna because Allah did not take any blood from my family. There was no painful sacrifice. That must mean I'm in trouble. You must not have understood that this is the religion of who? Not just Allah. Ibraimisam. Allah is not asking for painful sacrifices. Every other religion does. Every other religion does. Allah gives. Allah gives and Allah gives and Allah does not ask back for anything more than what you would already be able to give. Nothing more. This story of the sacrifice was actually to show there's no more need for human beings to sacrifice

20:13 themselves. That's what we celebrate when we do Hajj. Do you know that this uh what through Hajj Allah created ease in this world? Allah made everything easy for humanity, for everybody. Yes, my dear. You have questions. Do you have a question? Yeah. There was an that said. Yeah. In in other places too. Yeah. But I want to I want to read this passage to you. I want to show you something. Is the story of sacrifice important for Muslims only? No. Who else? Very good. Christians and Jews. Now listen. Allah

20:58 says when they both surrendered and he put him right down on the rock and we called him. You have now made the dream come true. That's enough. You don't need to do anymore. This is how we absolutely reward those who do the the best they can. This is the ultimate test. Then Allah says, "And we replaced him with a great sacrifice." So we sacrifice a goat or a cow or anything else. And now Allah considers that great because now we remember the original sacrifice with Ibraimam at Now listen to this.

21:51 Allah says we we left left him as a legacy for other people on and later and we gave him the good news of meaning is not the only child. Who else was the child? These ayat teach us which son because Allah didn't name is but later Allah said and Allah also gave him the good news of ish. So what does that tell you? Which son was supposed to be sacrificed? Is okay and who comes from the line of Iselam eventually? No, from the children of Ismael. Who comes? Muhammad wasallam. Okay. Now this is important in the Bible. In the Bible, the Bible also tells us that Ismael was the older

22:37 son. Ismael was the older son and Isak was the younger son. But the Bible in many places says that the one to be slaughtered, the one that was taken to be slaughtered was not Ismile, it was Isak. And once is Hak was taken and then the slaughter didn't happen. The sacrifice didn't happen. God was very happy with Abraham and he said, "Now that I am so happy with you because you did this, you passed this test. As a result, I am blessing your children with ishak your children with ishak and I'm promising them this land. This land belongs to them because of this sacrifice. And in other places in the

23:23 Bible, even if you mess up and do messed up things, it's okay. The land still belongs to these children because you made this sacrifice. That's the promise given to the children of Isab. And who's not part of this promise? The children of who? The Quran comes along and says, "Oh, hold on a second. A sacrifice did happen. A sacrifice was supposed to happen and a son was that was a son of Ibrahim Alam. But which son was it? Ismael." So the whole argument that you're special because of the sacrifice actually you're special because of the sacrifice of the older brother which is who isam and then extreme Christians came

24:12 especially in America and they made another story and that story was Ibrahimam had two sons a son with blessings and a son with a curse. The son with blessings is it is and the son with a curse is is and since the prophet Muhammad wasallam is from the children of isel he's from the cursed children and that's why it's a cursed religion that's why Islam is the religion of the devil and what's the blessed religion Christianity Judaism these are blessed by God all of this story created from what story the sacrifice the sacrifice and in the B in eventually one day I'll do a detailed study and show you guys what exactly

24:57 does the Bible say about this. You can do your own readings too but what exactly does the Bible say about them being blessed because of this sacrifice but yes last night I told you this was the greatest test of all the tests of Ibrahim. The tests are now done. Now Allah promised him something. Now Allah promised him uh I'm going to make you a leader. You remember the conversation yesterday? What was he told in the Bible? All of your children are blessed. What's he told in the Quran? No. Not all of your children. Some of them. And do they get to be blessed just because they're children of Ismael or children of Ised?

25:42 No. What? They they don't just become automatic leaders. How do they become leaders? How do they get blessed? It's okay. You can call it out. Okay, you can't call it out. I can't hear anyone. This is a bus station. Yes, by accepting Islam and doing good. By doing good. By accepting Islam. By not doing wrong. You have to do something to earn it. You have to follow Allah to earn it. You have to believe and do good deeds to earn it. That's the only way you can actually be from the children blessed in the line of Ibrahim. You understand? So this is actually a big deal. Understanding the sacrifice for the adults here. I recommend a book. It's been translated into English also. It's in Arabic, but it's been translated into English also. The Arabic title

26:31 is the correct position about who was to be slaughtered, who was to be sacrificed. And uh the sacrificed son, I think there's an English version of that available now online. You can find it. It would be a good reading for you in especially to understand our relationship with the our neighbors, our Jewish and Christian neighbors who have certain views. I need you to understand why they have the views that they have. Where did that come from and how we can have an a conversation with them based on reason not feelings right because that's that's the way of Ibrahimam. Let's talk based on reason not feelings. Yes, my dear. Through many difficulties in life to get to Jenna. But what about the hadith uh that says um this this world is like a

27:19 um prison for the believers and a paradise for the disbelievers. Ah yeah by comparison. So the easy to easy way to understand that hadith my dear is that when when someone's in prison they have a limited amount of food and they have a limited amount of freedom. And Muslims even though we enjoy many blessings we can't just have whatever we want and we can't just go wherever we want and do whatever we want. So in that sense we are limited and Jenna means you can eat whatever you want do whatever you want go wherever you want say whatever you want and so what do disbelievers do? They have no rules because Jenna has no rules and prison has rules. Right? So that's the comparison that's being made there. But that doesn't mean this earth is a is like a cursed place or a difficult place

28:05 or something like that. I'll take two more questions before I move on and give you guys a break also. Yes. Uh my question is uh similar to what she's saying that when we are given trials in this life and I know you said that you know people who don't have trials doesn't mean they're not going to ja right but the people who are given trials isn't that still some sort of sacrifice isn't that still transactional even in our dean like we say salah to go to Jenna we do good to get to Jenna to please Allah isn't that some of transaction too good question. So let's let's figure this out together. Number one, um who you guys know something about how was he

28:52 tested? Sickness. Uh was pretty miserable most of his life, right? Uh Alisam very difficult, emotionally difficult life. uh Ibrahim Alisam pretty difficult life as we've seen kicked out by his own father almost killed and you know even even until later on in his life pretty isolated but then you have Daudis who lived as a king you have Sulman who lived as a ruler right and had great power and enjoyed many blessings um you have uh Ysef Alisam who h whose half his life is very miserable and the other half is extremely blessed full of blessings And the thing about one of the statements in the Quran

29:38 is we don't distinguish between them. We don't distinguish between them. And some are and then Allah says we will test you. Listen to this carefully. We will test you with good and with bad. Some people are much better at handling a bad situation and they don't know how to handle a good situation. like they were much better people when they were in a bad situation and they became horrible human beings when they got into a good situation. And some people are very good at handling a good situation, very grateful, very kind, very generous when they're in a good situation and they are absolutely terrible when they are in a bad situation. Allah will test because different people have different personalities, different strengths,

30:23 different weaknesses. Allah will test some people with a lot of good and they might be a failure even though in the world it looks like they have a lot of good and Allah will test some people with a lot of bad and even though bad looks like bad in to us that might be their ultimate success. So we don't put a value on good and bad experiences in this life based on what we see because we don't actually know what kind of test that is from Allah cuz it's not just bad times that are a test. It's easy to say bad times are a test. The Quran is not saying bad times are a test. The Quran is saying bad times are a different kind of test and good times are also a different kind of test. They're both tests. So none of them are some sort of a oh no well this one's going through a bad time. Therefore their reward must be

31:10 higher. We don't know. We don't we don't know whose reward is higher. You know we we don't know if Sulman's reward is higher or Aub's reward is higher. We don't know. Right? because they were tested in two very different ways. The value of that is only with Allah. This is again another important difference between us and other religions. Other religions see if you make a lot of money and you're healthy and you're happy and that means God blessed you and you're God's happy with you. And if you lost your job and you're sick and you can't get anything done and failure after failure, that means God has cursed you or God is unhappy with you. We don't have that kind of math because we know lots of prophets who Allah loves who had a very hard life. And we also know lots of prophets who Allah loved who had a very good life, very easy life. Yeah.

31:56 And some had a mixture of both. So we don't think along those lines. There were a couple of questions here from the boys before the break that I forgot to answer, but I think everybody needed to hear those answers. So I want to see if those boys can repeat those questions. Who asked me a question before the break? Oh, they're gone. Somebody asked about or one of the girls asked how you know there all these religions have their reasons even if they're bad reasons but they have their reasons for believing what they believe how do we know we believe the right religion that's what she asked it's a really good question you know why because that's a very Ibraimisam kind of question isn't that what he was asking his old society how do you know you're following the right religion right and the answer that they gave him was well our father did it and

32:43 their dad did it and their dad did it Because daddy said so, you're going to follow it. Was that a reason answer or a feeling answer? A feeling. A feeling answer. So if your child asks, "Why are we Muslim?" Because people are Christian, they have their reasons. People are Jewish, they have their reasons. People are Hindu, they have their reasons. People are atheist, they are their reasons. You're Muslim. Why? What's our reason? And you say, "Listen, I'm going to talk. Let's talk to your baba right now. that shall not be translated, right? Are you giving a reason answer or a feeling answer? And when you give a feeling answer, then you're closer to the pagans and the villagers of Ibraimisam than Ibrahimam. Right? We

33:31 believe in this religion for two reasons. Listen to this carefully. We believe that this religion is true for two basic reasons. One of those reasons is we if we think like Ibraimisam about the sky, the earth, the universe, we think about life, we think about where life began, we contemplate, we think about without opening any book, we just look at reality and we actually deeply think about reality, we will reach a certain conclusion about the world outside us and the world inside us. There has to be a god. There has to be and there can only be one. That's one reason. The second reason is that Allah didn't just give us a book. Allah gave

34:16 us a book and he told us the more you think about this book, the more you seriously deeply think about this book, the more it will become clear to you that this book is actually cannot be from a human being. It can only be from God. So the more you learn it, the more convinced you get. The more you think about it, the more convinced you get. Which is why Allah talks to people and says why don't they think deeply about the Quran because if they did they would know that they wouldn't you know if this was from anyone other than Allah they would have found a problem in it but they can't find any problem in this book. I had a I had a friend in college uh who was a student of philosophy. You guys know what philosophy is? The younger kids might not know. philosophies they they make they they

35:03 they debate and argue about whether there's a god, whether there's not a god, where did the universe come from, what is what is inside of a human being, what's the soul? These kinds of questions are all philosophy questions. So, he was studying philosophy, right? And he was an agnostic. What's an agnost? Yeah. Uh someone who believes in a creator knowledge. No, no, no. Not a gnostic. An agnostic. That's a gnostic. Yes. Someone who believes that there was a God who created everything, but then he let everyone be and didn't give. No, no, that's not an agnostic. No one knows what an agnostic is. Yeah. It's you. I picked on you. Yeah, you.

35:53 He believes in Swiss cheese. What did you say? Agnostic means that he doesn't believe in anything. Yeah, I'm not sure about anything. Is there a god? Is there no god? I don't know. Is the religion true? Is it not true? I don't know. I'm not sure. They're the people that basically say I'm not sure to everything. That's that's the agnost position, right? So he he became agnostic. Then he said, I because he's from a Muslim family, he couldn't tell his parents that he's become agnostic because they would have a lot of feelings, right? So he didn't tell them but he decided to start studying Quran seriously just for himself for no other reason just for himself while he was in university. And I met him a year later and he told me that I was literally my

36:39 mind my brain was wrestling with the Quran. it was wrestling with the Quran and that the Quran it it felt like the Quran would pin me down and defeat me and then I'd wiggle out and make a new match, a new argument. And then I'd read more Quran and it would pin me down again. And then I'd make a new argument and it would pin me down again. And I I kept losing this these wrestling matches with the Quran until I just said, "You know what? I give up." up and I was like, isn't that what Islam means to give up? To just give yourself up and just let go, right? He found Islam. How do we know this religion is true? My answer is two things. One is the journey of Ibrahimam. That's one answer to that. So, we have

37:25 to learn to figure out that journey for ourselves to think about the creation of the skies, the creation of the earth, contemplate the the the you know the the the this entire universe and how everything works together. We have to think about that. And the second is the Quran itself. The final thing Allah gave us. It takes away all these other thoughts. It takes away all the doubts. That's the meaning of he will purify them. Purify them from what? Purify them from doubts. Purify them from shik. Purify them from disbelief. Purify them from the wrong ideas. Purify them from confusion. He purifies everything. And you're left with just clarity. You're just left with this is absolutely the truth. until it becomes clear to them that it's

38:11 absolutely true. So we do know we do know in fact we're the only religion this is again so important with Ibrahimam. Why was he different from all the people around him? Can you now that you've heard so much about Ibrahimam can you tell me some things that makes him different from all the people around him? Yes. What's your name? Mariam. Yeah. Tell me again Mariam. Not you. He's not Mariam. Are you Mariam? She is Mariam. I should pick on you next. You look so innocent and scared. Yes, he was different because in his religion, everyone was worshiping the idols and all these other gods and then he was the only one who was like, "Why are you worshiping just a bunch of statues and it just made of wood?" So,

38:57 he was thinking for himself. He was the only one who was thinking for himself. Everybody else was thinking like everyone else. You know what that's called? It's called group think. Group think, think. I don't have to think. Everybody's already doing the thinking. I'll just copy everybody else. I'll just follow the trend. Very good job, Mariam. Very good job. You know, when the Quran came, Allah told the Muslims to read. You know, the first revelation was read, right? What does someone do when they're reading? Which muscle in their body are they using when they're reading? Not only the eyes. Eyes, tongue. Go a little higher. Forehead. How do you read?

39:46 [Laughter] Forehead. When you read, you are thinking. All the other religions of the world wanted people to think less. All of them. Think less, follow more. You don't have to do the thinking. Somebody else already did the thinking for you. Follow your priest, follow your, you know, your sage, follow the monk, follow the whoever, follow them. Can I read it for myself? No, no, no. You're not qualified to read it. They'll read it. You just follow. Quran came and from the first day, it told people to think for themselves, didn't it? Read for themselves. The Quran restored what Ibraimisam

40:32 started. It took people back to what Ibrahim Alisam started. This is why the legacy of Ibraimisam is so so so important. This is why the sacrifice story is so important. He separated our God from all the other gods. We don't we don't you know I don't want you to think that Allah wants us to go through pain and suffering. In fact, Allah made the religion easy through Ibrahimam. And that's what we're going to discuss next. So, I'm going to give you guys a good 10-minute break, make new friends and new enemies, and I will come back and talk to you in 10 minutes.Amikum.