Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Problems of Misunderstanding May 10, 2009

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References in this lecture 9
4 min 26 sec
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Bismillah as a living practice, not a ritual
“Yeh jo bismillah parha jata hai, yeh koi rasm nahi hai”
2 min 5 sec
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What Bismillah actually means and invokes
“Bismillah reading before a speech is not a ritual”
4 min
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Pakistan pulling troops off India border under US pressure
“Pakistan to pull out troops from Indian border”
26 sec
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Arabic proverb: people fear what they don't know
“Al-nas a'da ma jahilu — people hate what they don't know”
1 min 27 sec
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Living nations follow logic, dead nations only follow pressure
“Biggest problem of Muslims: they won't accept a principle”
25 sec
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Dead nations only understand the language of pressure
“Sirf dabao ki zabaan jaante hain, logic ki nahi”
2 min 20 sec
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Educated audience never challenged God, only questioned human evil
“My topic was: how to discover God”
5 min 14 sec
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Delhi lecture reveals the real problem is evil, not God
“My topic was: how to discover God”
1 min 30 sec
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Physical world made scientists believers, human world made skeptics
“Two separate fields: the physical world and the human world”
4 min 12 sec
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The twofold mission: separate God from man, Islam from Muslims
“My mission is a two-fold mission”
1 min 46 sec
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Flogging and gun culture called Islam is worse than kufr
“When you read Islam, it looks clean — then you see Muslims”
5 min 41 sec
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Newton and Darwin were hijacked to manufacture atheism
“Neither Newton nor Darwin ever denied the existence of God”
3 min 47 sec
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Why God gave humans freedom, and why that causes evil
“God's power hasn't ended — He gave man freedom”
28 sec
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Man has defamed God, Muslims have defamed Islam
“Man has given God a bad name”
1 min 58 sec
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Professor's realization: Muslims are not the same as Islam
“A professor stood up: 'Maulana sahib, what did you just say?'”
47 sec
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You must judge Muslims by Islam, not the reverse
“You have to differentiate between Islam and Muslims”
5 min 57 sec
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Doomsday is near, and there's no time left to waste
“Qiyamah has come very close — it's knocking at our door”
1 min 50 sec
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The blind man and the well: only urgent warnings matter now
“A blind man is walking straight toward a well”
37 sec
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Just shout 'the well!' — no time for long warnings
“You won't say 'O sir, there's a well ahead' — just shout”
2 min 53 sec
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Monism vs monotheism: God as spirit or God as a person
“What should one think of Ibn Arabi's philosophy of wahdat al-wujud?”
24 sec
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Karamat (miracles of saints) is absurd, nothing at all
“Karamat is nothing. I consider it completely absurd”
55 sec
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You trust your mother without proof — same with God
“Do you ask others to prove you know your own mother?”
3 min 44 sec
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Debate is pride and showmanship; dawah is compassion for others
“There is no room for debate in Islam”
3 min
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Every human, even a king, is completely helpless before God
“Every human being — king or billionaire — is totally helpless”
1 min 4 sec
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A picture of perfect health, gone in an instant to brain hemorrhage
“I used to envy his health — then a sudden brain hemorrhage”
50 sec
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Everyone is powerless, God alone is all-powerful
“In fact, everyone is all-powerless and God is all-powerful”