Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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The Age of Deceiving Philosophies I 21 June 2009

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Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith no. 4242
Quran 7:110 · Al-A'raf
Al-Adab al-Mufrad by al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 597
Quran 7:110 · Al-A'raf
Quran 4:135 · An-Nisa
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 7993
Tafsir al-Tabari: 7612
Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith no. 2988
Quran 66:12 · At-Tahrim
Quran 61:14 · As-Saff
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hadith defines Fitna Dujjal as age of deceiving philosophies
“Today's topic is: the Age of Deceiving Philosophies”
55 sec
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Fitna Dujjal named as the greatest corruption in history
“One corruption will be the greatest in human history”
33 sec
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even the truthful Ummah won't be exempt from darkness
“Even the Ummah with truth won't be exempt”
1 min 29 sec
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four men symbolizing the age of deceiving philosophies
“Symbolically, I have taken four personalities”
5 min 51 sec
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Darwin's evolution theory examined and debunked via museum visit
“Let's take Darwin first — what did he do?”
2 min 19 sec
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museum horse-to-human display and debunked backbone evolution myth
“There was a horse standing on its hind legs”
35 sec
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modern comfort culture, not evolution, causes back pain
“Comfort culture has created this back problem”
1 min 28 sec
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Darwinism severed humanity's accountability to God
“God Almighty, our Creator — that all got cut off”
20 sec
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rhetorical question: why pray if all is natural process
“Then why would you pray? Why worship God?”
3 min 33 sec
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goat-to-giraffe natural selection story called pure guesswork
“Darwin gave an example: how a goat became a giraffe”
47 sec
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goat becoming a giraffe called a storyteller's tale
“This is absolute foolishness — a storyteller's tale”
1 min 18 sec
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natural selection called a beautiful term with no proof
“He coined natural selection, survival of the fittest”
5 min 48 sec
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Karl Marx's dialectical materialism and its real-world legacy
“Now let's take Marx, Karl Marx”
1 min 57 sec
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Marx's thesis-antithesis-synthesis theory of endless conflict
“Marx wrote Das Kapital — a stupid theory”
2 min 16 sec
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Marx's ideology behind real coal mine strikes in India
“I once went to an area with coal mines, all shut”
1 min 15 sec
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Freud's theory that desire must never be restrained
“Freud said desire must get unchecked fulfillment”
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virginity auction cited as depths of unchecked modern freedom
“Now there's a strange new item in the papers”
3 min 33 sec
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Sayyid Qutb's political misreading of Pharaoh and Musa
“Two men are directly responsible for today's violence”
4 min 50 sec
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Maududi's misreading of justice verse birthed political Islam
“Quran says become establishers of justice — qist”
1 min 30 sec
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Maududi's purdah book turns Islam into religion of flogging
“Let me give an example from Maududi's book Purdah”
52 sec
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philosophical-style deception too sophisticated for people to analyze
“In every era people have deceived others”
5 min 47 sec
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Prophet Muhammad prioritized dawa over family comfort and wealth
“This is a matter of priority, not balance”
2 min 13 sec
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Fatima's blistered hands and the Prophet's answer of dhikr
“Prophet married his daughter Fatima to Ali, who had nothing”
35 sec
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no scripture can compulsively force guidance on anyone
“No book can compulsively put you on guidance”
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sincerity determines whether someone truly understands the message
“A man came, stood there, then stormed off calling it a club”
1 min 41 sec
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personal testimony that every challenge births a positive
“Yes, there is a positive — we exist because of it”
2 min 14 sec
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Umar's parable defining taqwa as walking carefully through thorns
“Umar asked a companion: what is taqwa?”
2 min 23 sec
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fear of God reframed as accountability, not animal fear
“Fear is actually a positive quality, misunderstood by people”
2 min 24 sec
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both angel and satan support whichever path you choose
“With every person there is an angel and a satan”
2 min 44 sec
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dargah miracles explained away as last chance, false hope
“There have been instances of people praying at a dargah”
29 sec
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everyone can find time through the art of time management
“You have to learn the art of time management”
5 min 20 sec
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practical dawa work through time management and pamphlet distribution
“You have to learn the art of time management”
57 sec
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no one has any excuse left to skip dawa work
“No one has any excuse left today”