So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he says in the Quran, he says, it is he, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, who sent this messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, with guidance in the religion of truth, prevailing it, making it prevail over all others, to the dismay of those who associate with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And this verse is a prophecy that is currently coming true. It seems like in a few years, we will be the last traditional dean standing as it were. Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Now we believe as Muslims that Islam, so this religion that was brought to us by the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is deen and haq, the religion of truth. This is not to say that other religions don't contain elements of truth. Of course they do. The Quran is a confirmation, a mustadq of, let's say, Biblical tradition, but it's also a corrective. The Quran is al-Furqan, a standard of truth. The Quran is al-Muhaiman alayhi, and the overseer of the previous scriptures. So we definitely have in common, a lot in common with other religions, but there are also crucial differences. And it's these differences that actually make our deen unique. It's these differences that make our deen superior. And I don't say that in an arrogant way, it's just simply true, our deen is superior. And if we didn't believe that, then we probably wouldn't be here. And I made a conscious choice as an adult to be a Muslim, to follow Islam, because I believe it is objectively better than other religions, and objectively better than atheism. So it's like in the Quran, when Allah SWT says, إنما أنا بشر مفلوقه.  The Prophet SAW is a human being like everybody else. You ha'ilaya. But revelation comes to me. So this quality makes him unique, SAW. This difference makes him superior. He is a messenger of God, and not just a messenger of God, the last and final and greatest messenger of God. And this is part of our basic Aqida as Muslims. The word Aqida comes from a root meaning to bind to something. So these are beliefs that we are bound to, or beliefs that bind to us. So we are bound to the belief that the Prophet Muhammad, SAW, is the last and final and greatest messenger of God. He said, I am the master of the children of Adam, and I do not boast. This is not a boast. He's not bragging. It is mustahil for a Prophet to commit kitman or to conceal something that Allah SWT has ordered him to convey. This is simply the truth. And we have confidence in this. The word faith, unfortunately, has been tarnished by new atheism. People like Richard Dawkins, they say that faith means belief without evidence. So I like to use the word confidence. What does the word confidence mean? The Latin, con, with fideh's faith, it just means faith. But it doesn't carry the baggage, the word faith, of God. So we believe in the Prophet, SAW. We have confidence in the Prophet, SAW, precisely because of evidence. In the Quran, he is called al-baydina, the evidence. Al-baydina, he is the evidence. So it's easy to say, and sometimes it's very tempting to say that all religions are essentially the same and that these differences don't really matter. But that is a misrepresentation of Islam as well as these other religions that's doing a disservice to humanity. These differences matter and they are important. I personally know a guy who identifies as a pro-choice Catholic. Pro-choice, by the way, is a circumlocution. It's a euphemism. It's a way of saying pro-abortionist. And that is also a circumlocution. That's meaning, pro-abortionist means pro-death, pro-murder. Pro-choice Catholic is essentially an oxymoron. It's like jumbo shrimp. So I said to him, but the magisterium, the tradition in binding teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church is against abortion. He said, I don't care. And I say, well, can you be a Unitarian Catholic? And he said, no. And I said, well, what's the difference as long as we're picking and choosing? So details matter, definitions matter. We're definition is from gay, finis in Latin, meaning concerning its end, concerning its parameter. A definition delimits something. In Arabic it's called the hat, a bound or a parameter. If words don't have definitions, then they become meaningless. Or if definitions are constantly changing, they become meaningless. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said, yati ala nasi zamanun laya qawminat isla ila ismu. He said that towards the very end of time, right? Towards the very end of time, nothing will remain of this religion except its name. It's going to become a name without a reality or an essence. In other words, people will say they're Muslim, but they have nothing to do with Islam. Like I'm a non-binary Muslim who believes in reincarnation and practices an alternate lifestyle. You know what I mean? You can't define me. But Allah and His messenger and the ijma'a have defined Islam. Sacred texts that are wadiya and muhqam, clear, unambiguous, unequivocal, have defined our religion. If these texts can mean whatever we want, then they mean nothing. Islam has a normative definition. And if you breach that definition, you are not Muslim. It's that simple. There are millions of people in the world right now in major existential crisis, in major theological crisis, in moral crisis. It's a total jungle out there. There are millions of people in the world right now whose entire worldview has been turned on its head by the current zeitgeist, the current spirit of the age, by this pervasive and pernicious culture that makes them question their own common sense, their own intuition. So common sense, fundamental principles of being, language, meaning, definitions, objective truth, all of this is being challenged. You can spend $100,000 on a college education and you walk out of that college saying to yourself, are there more than two genders? You've lost your common sense. You got hooked. That's getting robbed. That's called grand larceny. This new generation of children are steeped in nihilism, this idea that ultimately there is no objective meaning to life, that you can give your life any meaning you want. Existence precedes essence, they say. This is from Sartre, this is a French philosopher. In his consort, Simone de Beauvoir, one of the founders of feminism, she said, quote, one is not born, but rather becomes a woman. No one's born a woman. A rejection of human nature, of human essence. This is called existentialism, that you can make your own reality. It's all about you.  With the ego in the center, the nafs is a very subtle type of shirk. It's called idolatry, worship of the ego. And this happens when people impute the unique nature of God upon themselves. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in the Quran, he says, Have you seen the one who takes his ego as his God? This is all related to this revolt against normativity and this movement toward queer identity. What does queer mean? It means unique. It means different. It means special. It means individual. You can't define me, my identity, my gender. I am the undefinable. I decide what I am. I am whatever I want to be. Laysa kamithli shay. There's nothing like me whatsoever. All of you have to bow down to my ego.  Because I am the Lord of the highest. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la describes the Ulun al-Bab, the people of essential understanding in the Quran. What did they say? These are the people of essential understanding. You did not create this for nothing in vain. Glory be to you. Save us from the punishment of the fire. The central message here is that existence has objective meaning. Your life has objective meaning with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Even if you're not on social media, even if you don't have any friends, even if two people in the world don't know your name, you mean something to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Wa Hasbun Allah. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la suffices us. We must not let this world deceive us. The only opinion that matters is the opinion of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So chaos is everywhere. You have moral, existential, theological, social chaos. Of course chaos is the opposite of cosmos, meaning order. So disorder is everywhere. So people should know that Islam has something unique, and elegant, and beautiful, and reasonable to offer them. And by Islam, I don't mean submission in some sort of broad sense. So I'm not talking about Islam-un, like with the Tanween or Islam with the lower case. Everything is in the state of Islam-un, whether they like it or not, whether they know it or not. Everything is submitted to the Qadr of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, the decorative will of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So what I'm talking about is Islam. The message brought to us specifically by the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is his preferential will. So a Muslim, capital M, strives to do those things that are pleasing to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And how do we know his preferential will? He tells us in his prescriptive will, in other words his Kitab, his Wahi. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says in his Kitab that the Qur'an is The Qur'an is a healing, a cure for what is in the hearts of humanity. And people are afflicted everywhere with spiritual maladies. And in many cases they don't even realize that they have these diseases. There's doubt, hypocrisy, there's arrogance, there's vanity and heedlessness. We are some also kind of wa ta'ala to cure us of all such diseases. I usually have problems with microphones. It's thought of the rest that happens to people. So watering down our religious beliefs unnecessarily, we're attempting to combine somehow to equalize all of these religions. It compromises our distinctiveness as a religion. It compromises the Qur'an's distinctiveness as a scripture, as a unique book of healing. And there is something very special about Islam. There's something special about the Qur'an. There's something special and unique about the Prophet Muhammad and we should make no apologies about this. This is the truth. However, we must also show humility before Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. The Prophet Muhammad said And this is a spiritual principle. Is it not a mathematical principle or a biological principle? A spiritual principle, a spiritual law. If we are humble before Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, Allah will raise us. But if we are arrogant, Allah will debase and humiliate us. Almost the exact statement is attributed to the New Testament. The Christians, they have these spiritual laws. People who believe in ultimate accountability, they have these spiritual laws. But people who love the dunya and claim to the dunya, this ephemeral and perishing world, they follow other principles like just do you, or do without wilt, or live your truth. Alright? There's a philosopher named David Berlinsky who wrote a book called The Devil's Delusion. This is the semirefutation of Dawkins' The Dawk Delusion. I highly recommend it. And he quotes a French philosopher in this book. And he says, this philosopher says, imagine you have a magic button, this magic button. If you press this button, all the riches of the entire world will come into your possession immediately. It's like a genie, right? But there's one catch. If you press this button, one human being somewhere in the world will fall down dead. So he says, to whom will you entrust this button? An atheist who doesn't believe in God, who doesn't believe in ultimate accountability, who believes that if he can get away with it, then he's going to get away with it. Or a theist who believes in God, who believes in ultimate accountability on the Yom Al-Qiyamah, who would you entrust the button to? A theist.  What does autonomy mean? It means self-rule. I can do whatever I want with my body, my body, my choice. Good luck with that. Inna lillahi. Wa inna ilayhi raajirun. We don't read Qur'an. Inna lillahi. Indeed, we, lilla, laf tablik, we belong to Allah. We don't own anything. I don't own my body. I don't own my wealth. I don't own my family. I own nothing. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is maddik and maddik. He is king and owner. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says wa idan ma'udatu su'ilat bi aydan bin qutilat. When that innocent little beautiful baby girl will be asked on the young piano for which crime she was killed. Can you imagine? This is proven. The majority of children killed by their parents are girls. No one wants to talk about this war on women. This is a global war on women. The other front of the war on women, there are multiple fronts, is when men appropriate the gender of women. When men think they can become women, like some sort of gender blackface, when womanhood becomes mockingly performative, when womanhood becomes a gender minstrel show, this will systematically erase that which makes real women unique, distinct and precious. This is in the Qur'an. The male is not like the female. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam has this perennial problem in human society that people who don't believe nobody's triggered. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam has this perennial problem in human society that people who don't believe in ultimate accountability will oppress those who are physically weaker. That's the law of the jungle. But we don't follow the law of the jungle. We follow the laws of revelation. This is why he sallallahu alayhi sallam man kunalahu thalatu banatil yuwihinna wa yarhamuhunna wa yakfuluhunna wajdatuhu jannah The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said whoever has three daughters and shelters them and has compassion towards them and protects and takes care of them a guaranteed paradise kheela yarusudallah wa imkanat idnatain Somebody said, what about only two daughters? Even if two khala farah ba'adu qawm al lo qalulahu wajdat lo qalahu wajdat And some of the people thought that if they had said to him what about one daughter, he would have said even one. Notice he did not stop at shelters them. Shelters them has compassion towards them protects them, takes care of them. This is what a man does. A man protects shelters and has compassion towards women. He does not become a woman. This is a perversion an inversion. This is inherently disordered. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is addressed by Allah swt with the following words wa bi ma rahmatin min allahi lintalahum wa lo kuntafattan ghalid al qalbi lan fattu min hawlik It is part of the incredible mercy of your Lord that you deal gently with them if you are harsh or hard hearted you would have seen people flee with their very presence. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was gentle. He was a gentleman. This is a beautiful word in English. Gentleman. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said whoever is the product of gentleness is the product of good. That does not mean a feminine man. Do not get the wrong idea. It means a truly masculine man. A truly masculine man is gentle yet formable and fierce if need be. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam those who are with them are strict against hostile believers but merciful amongst each other. Allah swt is the one who loves them and loves them and loves them The faith of the believers the respect of the disbelievers You do not understand the reason. You fear not what you find. That is the grace of Allah Oh you who believe If you turn back to the religion, then Allah SWT being a Qalm, that He loves them and they love Him, lowly with the believers, but they have Isa. The unbelievers look at them and they start troubling because the Muslims have Isa. They have honor, they have dignity, they're formidable in the eyes of the unbelievers. And they strive and struggle on the path of Allah SWT. So confidence, discipline, stoicism, strength, ambition, these are masculine qualities that men should never apologize for having. These are qualities of Muhammadur Rasulullah, wa khayru naas harni, and the best generation is his generation. Sometimes men must be violent. It's necessary, but it must be tempered for the sake of good, not evil. The solution is not to feminize men. Then who's going to take care of the violent men? Violence is necessary to create peace and check oppression. And here's another thing, dawah is for non-Muslims. And nasiha is for Muslims. But nowadays, as one of my teachers said, now we have to make dawah to Muslims. Because for many of them, their fundamental aqida is not sound. 20 years ago, 10 years ago, there were liberal Muslims. They practiced Islam with a liberal flavor. But today, many Muslims are actually practicing liberalism with an Islamic flavor. There's a Muslim who gave al-khutbah at a Catholic university. And in this khutbah in passing, he mentioned that abortion is haram. The MSA tried to get him kicked out of school. The MSA, Muslim students in a Catholic university are trying to kick this khateed out of the university. Recently, a very influential person with a very huge social media following became Muslim. Alhamdulillah. However, he's a man who is perceived as a threat to feminism, the whole feminist project. Now check this out. There was a Muslim sister who tweeted that if he is welcomed as a Muslim, she will leave Islam. She will apostate and leave Islam. And she said, and I will deal with Allah on the Day of Judgment. Why? How could she possibly say this? Why would someone taking shahada threaten her Islam? The reason is because it seems like, I hope not, but it seems like her religion is not Islam with a dash of feminism. It is feminism with a dash of Islam. Hind bin Tugritbah, who bit into the liver of Hamza, and Hamza was beloved to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, cannibalized someone who was the Habib of Allah's Habib. She came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, at the Fatah Mecca, and she was veiled, and she said, praise be to the one who made his religion victorious. He said, man and, he said, Hind bin Tugritbah, he said, Marhaban. Welcome to the religion. No one can turn away someone from the religion. Nobody can do this. This has nothing to do with you. Firaun, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, tulhus alayhi sallam, speak polan layyan, speak a gentle word of Firaun, the butcher of the Bani Israel. He might become Muslim, and if he became Muslim, those Israelites have to embrace him as their brother, and not talk about his past sins. Imagine, Cardi B becomes Muslim. This is someone, basically a porn star, who grabs about taking men into hotel rooms on the pretext of sex, and then pulls out a gun and robs them.  If this person becomes Muslim, we have to welcome her with open arms, as a sister in the faith, and not mention any of those things. We don't own this religion. We have no say in whom Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala guides. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the Prophet, إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِيمًا عَبَقْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِيمًا يَشَارُ You cannot guide all those whom you love, but Allah guides. ليس عليك هُدَا هُمْ It is not up to you to guide people. ليس عليك من الأمر الشيء or you have no say in this affair. That's the Prophet ﷺ. Nowadays, we have many challenges, theologically speaking. So as an Umma who is trying to be true to our tradition, to our scripture, to our Prophet ﷺ, to our scholastic community, we have many challenges. Of course, there is a phenomenon of postmodernism. This idea that we are living in a post-truth society, there's no real truth, there's no real morality. Another challenge that is more insidious, seemingly harmful nonetheless, is a philosophy called perennialism, which has permeated various pours of Western academia. This idea that all major religions are theologically valid, that Christianity and Islam are both theologically valid, or that theological differences between these two religions are reducible to mere semantics. In other words, trinity or tohi, it doesn't matter, right? Aquinas and Rosalie, they're saying basically the same thing. Augustine and Eugenia, they're saying the same thing. You know? This is false. This is false logically. This is false spiritually. Why do people go there? It makes them feel good. It's all about feeling. It's true that both religions are attempting to describe the same metaphysical reality, but the meanings of their respective ways of theologizing are clearly at odds. The Qur'an has a clear polemic against Christianity. You cannot deny it. What they're saying is very interesting. Allah SWT says don't say three, and he leaves it at three, because there were Christians who said three gods. There's an ontological hierarchy. There are Christians who said three persons and one god in the hypostatic hierarchy. There are Christians who say one person, one god, but three modalities. These are called the modalists. Pathricationism. There are Christians who say that Trinity is father, son, only spirit. There are Christians who say father, son, mother. So both theologies cannot be true at the same time. This is a violation of a fundamental, a priori law of being called the principle of contradiction. Either he's God or he's not. He cannot be both.  Either it's raining or it's not. There's no third option. Principle of the excluded middle. He's either God or he's not. No third option. Either Islam is correct or Christianity is correct. Both can logically be wrong, but both cannot be right. If you read the Quran, it's very clear that there are things that the Christians got right. There are also things that they got wrong. And this is a really important point. The Quran is a theologically judgmental book. Theologically and morally judgmental book. Even if our society considers it politically incorrect or unwoke to pass judgment on another person's religion or worldview, this does not change the reality that there is truth and falsehood. That the Quran purports to reveal the truth. That was a very eye-opening documentary film that was recently made by a conservative commentator, the Catholic named Matt Walsh. It's called What is a Woman? Maybe you've heard of this. I highly recommend watching it. It actually blew my mind a little bit. So he interviewed several people, but one of them was a college professor of women and gender sexuality studies. PhD. A self-proclaimed social scientist. He asked the professor the question What is a woman? And the professor with his PhD cannot answer the question without saying the word woman. A woman is a woman. If he says that a woman is a human being with two X chromosomes then he would be marginalizing transgender women also known as men who have XY chromosomes. Then the professor gets frustrated and says why are you asking? And Walsh says I'm interested in getting to the truth. And upon hearing the words the truth the professor has a visceral reaction. And he says I'm uncomfortable. You're condescending and rude. They can't stand the word truth. Very interesting. Why? Why does the word truth trigger to use their term? These people. You know why? Because Allah SWT is the truth. This is an aversion to God. Academia is becoming fundamentally anti-theistic. At first academia was theistic like Harvard, Yale, Georgetown these started as Christian seminaries. Education used to be sought for the sake of God. Then academia became atheistic. There is no God. And if you believe in God that's your business just keep it out of here. And now academia has become anti-theistic. Theistic, atheistic, anti-theistic. What does anti-theistic mean? Two things. Number one, the belief in God and practice of religion need to go. You need to throw it away. Or if you insist on believing in God and in traditional religion then you must change your beliefs for the sake of hurt feelings.  Satan is not an atheist. Shaitan knows that God exists.  So he says to the human being disbelieve. And when he disbelieves Shaitan says to the human being I fear you. I fear Allah the Lord of the worlds. Satan is an anti-theist. He wants us to disobey Allah disobey the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam the Quran quotes him He says I am a liar because you let me astray look at the satanic mentality self-victimization versus the Adamic mentality What does Adam and Eve say ربنا خلمنا أنفسنا وطرحمنا لأننا كنا من الخاصين O our Lord forgive us personal responsibility the satanic mentality self-victimization because you let me astray I will lie and wait for them on your straight path in other words I will attack the people of your deen I will assault Muslims look at it the irony is that people who tend to stress tolerance the most tend to be the most intolerant to intolerance it's quite ironic it's like someone who says be nice you idiot I had to take graduate school seminars for a PhD I would say most of it was a total waste of time 99% of it was a waste of time you're sitting in a classroom with other people and they're just venting with no knowledge we have just debate on this topic so I remember one topic it was about a rite of passage in a certain country for young boys okay and I said I believe that's child abuse that's what I said this very woke student jumped all over me how dare you make a judgment about another culture how can you be so intolerant of someone else's belief I said yeah how can you be so intolerant of my belief and she didn't get the irony so everyone is to a certain degree intolerant there are no exceptions for many people on the left like extreme liberals and many Muslims see like they need to support them for some reason many of them is not good enough is not nearly good enough for them they want more than tolerance they even want more than acceptance they want to be celebrating they don't want to be ignored ignorance is just tolerance do whatever you want they don't want your thumbs up from a distance or you know one of these like okay I accept you no they want you to march in their parade they want you to join the circus and Muslim politicians in America do exactly that I'm sorry to say if you join the circus everyone knows if you never join the circus when the circus comes to town you look at it you are amazed by it and then you go back to work well you might say well who cares well the problem is that extreme liberals dominate academia social media, the entertainment industry and the government absolutely capitulates to that it's a grooming process why rainbows and unicorns why are these their symbols why not trees and donkeys anything else one reason is they want to attract children and one of my teachers said the rainbow is actually a symbol of God's covenant with humanity that he would never flood the earth or destroy the earth again so they chose the rainbow as a way of mocking God as if to say haha you can't destroy us we're protected by the rainbow what are you going to do to us why buzz light here it's grooming years ago you sat down with your kids and you watched Toy Story right nice movie and then a few years later hey kids there's a sequel let's go yay few years later hey Toy Story 3 let's go watch it in the movies alright let's buy some popcorn beautiful let's buy the toys and the t-shirts a few years later look a prequel at this point your kids love the whole franchise it's been part of their lives for years let's go watch the prequel bam homosexual love scene this is ideological warfare the earlier must say that you're either calling to something or you are being called to something that's it two options pick an option personal feelings do not change objective facts about reality 2 plus 2 is 4 an adult human male is a man an adult human female is a woman truth is truth falsehood is falsehood with the coming of our master Muhammad the Quran says the truth has come not a relative truth or your truth in my truth the truth has come and falsehood has vanished indeed falsehood is ever vanishing the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam repeated this ayah when he was smashing the idols at the Kaaba an imitation of his forefather the great iconoplast our master Ibrahim alayhi sallam but according to the Quran according to Imam al-Razi in Imam al-Tabari this ayah refers more generally the coming of the Quran and the establishment of al-Islam that Islam is the truth in the sense that it is the deen of Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam who is the ultimate truth so for my remaining time inshallah I like to look at a few passages from surah Ibrahim alayhi sallam and just give me a wave when he is talking so this is found in surah 26 verses 75 to 89 it has two sections and both sections are essentially didactic meaning Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam through our master Ibrahim alayhi sallam is teaching us something so at the highest level Allah is teaching us about himself he is teaching us theology which is the most noble of sciences because subject matter is the greatest entity in existence theology is asrub deen so in the first section Ibrahim alayhi sallam is speaking to his people about Allah his people were the ancient caldeans who worshiped a pantheon of gods they were mushriki, polytheists in the second section Ibrahim alayhi sallam is speaking directly to Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam in the form of supplication and dua what you will see of Ibrahim alayhi sallam's speech is trans-historical in other words how his speech is trans-historical it is timeless so his speech begins with have you really considered what you worship you and your ancestors they are enemies to me except the lord of the worlds and our Mufassereen say here that these verses are one of the strongest proofs against theological taqleed and for istidlal taqleed is blind conformance or uncritical faith it is following someone without due inquiry it is belief without evidence taqleed and matters of creed or theology is unacceptable you have to be convinced you have to actually believe what you claim to believe and you should be able to explain your beliefs even if it's just at a basic level you don't have to be a theologian but you have to know something if you're praying because your father prays and then your father dies and you stop praying there's a problem we should be able to explain if only to ourselves that God exists and that he is one we should be able to explain why we believe in the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam why the Quran is the word of God we can use rational, historical, linguistic and scriptural proofs we believe because it is rational believe in God is rational disbelieve in God is a type of idiocy Imam al-Lazali said we should never refer to atheists as intelligent it is a type of stupidity in the same Surah Surah al-Ibrahim al-Salaam says their messenger said to them do you have doubt about Allah the creator, the originator, the heavens and the earth do you really doubt that they don't even entertain atheism they're not atheists everyone worships something who created this phone did it create itself no who created this car out here did it create itself no, who created this building did it create itself no, who created this universe did it create itself yes, you're an idiot then Ibrahim al-Salaam the one who created me and guides me now he begins his theological monologue Allah is the creator he is the only creator in reality because logic tells us there can only be one creator to ask the question who created the creator is nonsense why? because by definition the creator is uncreated if the creator was created then he's not the creator if there was no beginning of the universe if there was no creation ex nihilo from nothing then we are stuck in infinite regress which is repugnant to the intellect if the universe is infinite in the past we would never get to today because you cannot traverse an actual infinitude an actual infinite number of events is what my teacher said imagine you're standing in a line and there's a, let's say I'm standing in a line full of men there's a man in front of me and I say to this man hey brother, can I give you a hug? and this brother tells me can I give him a hug? so I turn around and say hey can I give this guy a hug? and then he says ask the guy behind me can I give him a hug? ask the guy behind me can I give him a hug? and this goes on ad infinitum would I ever give the brother a hug? never you cannot traverse an actual infinite number of events infinite regress dies at the door of the eternal this is the only solution it is intelligent to believe in one creator who created from nothing space, time, and matter came into being so this creator is necessarily spaceless, timeless, and immaterial he must be also extremely powerful because he brought all these things into being from nothing he must be also highly intelligent he must be also personal because he chose to create rather than not so we have six attributes of God that are immediately known to the intellect just the akal, you don't need the nakal here just the akal and hua, he guides me emphasis on hua the verb is imperfect, he alone guides me and continues to guide me so Allah swt is the majestic all powerful, timeless creator but he is also in some sense intimate, personal close to his creation he is kareeb, he shows us the way he is not some impersonal distant or removed God he is not the God of the Greek philosophers he is personal in Arabic Arabic when my servants ask you concerning he says I am close to them I answer the supplicant when he calls upon me Arabic Arabic Arabic we created a human being and we know what his soul suggests to himself we are closer to him than his jugular vein Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic The Qur'an says about Ibrahim A.S. So he looked at the stars and he said, I'm sick. He said the idolatry of his people made his heart feel sick. This was out of his compassion. That he loved his people and did not want to see their destruction. And the Prophet S.A.W. was the same way. And we should be the same way. He said, Perhaps you might worry yourself to death over them if they don't believe in this message. Kufr might make us sick to our stomachs. But we have to trust and submit to Allah SWT. The one who causes me to die then causes me to live. And he says, And the one who I hope will forgive my sins on the Day of Judgment. And Mujahid said that this could be a reference to S.A.W. 63 when Ibrahim A.S. lied to his people about the largest idol that's growing the smaller ones. But other ulama they say this is not actually a lie because his intention was not deception. His intention was to demonstrate an absurdity in their belief that Ibrahim A.S. was demonstrating the dangers and follies of theological taqlid. If you ask your average Christian, why do you believe in the doctrine of the Trinity? They'll probably say it's in the Bible. It's just a knee-jerk reaction. And as Muslims we have to have enough knowledge to follow up with the question of where? Show me where the Bible teaches the explicit doctrine of the Trinity. Produce book chapter and verse. And after finding nothing in the Bible many Christians come to the realization that the only reason they believed in the Trinity was because of theological taqlid, blind imitation of their leaders. They were told to believe that God was three without seeing the evidence. Allah SWT says in the context of Christianity O people of the book, do not exaggerate in your religion beyond the truth. And do not follow the desires and caprices of a people who went astray and thus let many others astray and continue to astray from the right path. Daulal is mentioned three times. The Christian leaders who have been to the Trinity went astray. Then with their theology they led millions more astray than the Christians at the time of the Prophet SAW and today rejected him SAW because he did not teach to Trinity and thus they continued to go astray. Compounded Baalal. But the Quran wants to ask the Christians as well. Have you really considered what you worship? The same question Ibrahim SAW asked his people. I like the people of Ibrahim SAW the Christians in principle worship Allah who is out of Abraham but they need correction. Rabbi Habli Hukman, wa al-hikli mis-salim. O my Lord, grant me a judgment process and bind me to the righteous. This begins the second section of the Abrahamic model of his supplication to Allah SWT. He's still didactic. He's teaching us theology through du'am. Rabbi, he says, Allah denotes the personal deity.  Habli, fi'u du'a, grant me Allah is al-wahhab, the one who gives us things even though we are undeserving. Give me a shukum, shukman, a judgment process by which I might recognize the truth. In other words, a strong sense of discernment. All of us are born with a conscience. Conscience means with knowledge. We all have the ability to intuit to a certain extent what is good, bad, beneficial, harmful, what is beautiful, ugly. We have this naturally. We're not a tabula rasa. We're not a clean slate. So it seems. This is what Socrates wanted to bring to the surface through the dialectic. But they didn't have wahi. These truths are in us. We already know these things. We have the Qur'an. We have wahi. One of the names of the Qur'an is adhikr, the reminder. Allah SWT tells us these things clearly and they are in conformance with our fitrah, with our nature. However, a lack of revelation or bad education or sin or disobedience or shaitan can delude us and deceive us even to the point where the bad is seen as good, the ugly is beautiful, and the harmful is healthy. And some of the urn must say, even our fitrah can change due to bad socialization. And this is happening today, all of our society. So we need reminders. Today we have people who weigh 400 pounds with purple hair covered in tattoos from head to toe and think that is beautiful. It's a total inversion. We also ask Allah SWT to grant us a sustained and sharp process of judgment by which we might see the reality behind the form. And in this vein, the Prophet SWT supplicated, beautiful dua, Allah Umma. Arina al-Haqqa, Haqqan. Wa-ruzzukna i-tiba'a. O Allah, show me the truth, as truth and give me the ability to follow it. Wa-arina al-ba'atina al-ba'atina wa-ruzzukna i-tina'a. And show me the falsehood, as falsehood and give me the ability to shun it. In Surah Ibrahim, Allah SWT alladin yas-tihibbuna al-hayatat dunya al-akhirah. Wa-yusuduna an-sabilillah. Wa-yabhuna ha'i wajab. Wa-lalika fi-balal ad-da'een. Those who prefer the life of this world over the hereafter and who turn from the way of God from the sabilillah to seek to make it crooked this day who are far astray. Those who prefer this fleeting life of 60 to 70 years over the abode of permanence are not being rational. That is unintelligent, irrational thinking. Putting all your eggs in the basket of the dunya is irrational. When you know and everybody knows this that the specter of death lurks behind every corner you don't know when you're going to die. You die later tonight or before that. You can go at any time. We know this. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says وَمَا بُتِجُوا مِنْ شَيْئِنْ فَمَا تَبْرْحَيَاتِ وَزِيْنَةُ وَزِيْنَةُ وَزِيْنَةُ هَبْ وَمَا عِنَّ اللَّهِ خِلُونَ أَبْقَا فَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ Whatever shade you're given is only in the enjoyment of this life and this world and its ornament but that which is with Allah is better and more lasting. We do not use your intellect. We do not be reasonable. Our Master Jesus, peace be upon him is reported to us that he was a prophet, a man to gain the world and lose his soul. Our Master Muhammad, peace be upon him, he said وَعَمِلَا لِمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَالْعَاجِزُوا مَنْ أَتْبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَا هَا وَتَمَلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ وَكُمَ قَالَ عَلِيْنْ صَلَةُ وَسْمَامِ The intelligent one is the one who subdues his lower self and works for that which comes after death while the unintelligent one is the one who has put his lower self in pursuance of its desires and has vain hopes in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala such a person leads a heathenistic and selfish lifestyle against his better judgment and expects Allah to forgive him that's not intelligent, that's not reasonable this deen, this religion is an intelligent deen it's a thinking person's religion a wise man once said would you rather hold a handful of dirt for several hours or a piece of gold for a moment or a piece of dirt a piece of gold for a moment and he continued yet there are people who would rather hold dirt for a moment than gold forever there was a study conducted on children years ago by a Stanford professor there was a study on delayed gratification and they found that children who preferred to have two cookies later, rather than one cookie now were gently more intelligent and successful later in life discipline, patience, these are markers of success in both worlds this world is a shadow of the next world why would someone prefer this fleeting life over the hereafter it's because they have doubt about the hereafter in their hearts but rather than try to alleviate their doubts with serious and sincere study they take the lazy way out and follow their how-out their decrees, their desires, their lusts their feelings and their feelings rule them out of spite for those who engage the way of God the Sadeel of Allah which Imam Sujood says is al-Islam out of spite for those who practice Islam they seek to change Islam through lies, deviation and falsehood so as I mentioned the people of knowledge say that you're either calling to something or being called and right now in our society we have people deviants openly saying to traditional people to convert your children this is what they're saying openly now no more hidden agendas no conspiracy theories they want to convert our children into accepting their deviant lifestyles and perverted philosophies but in order to do this they need Muslims to forsake their tradition and accept the current zeitgeist they need us to accept this highly intolerant and coercive liberalism now the liberal world order that is now openly declared ideological warfare on traditional religion it's open, this is their project they're broadcasting it now why do they need Muslims it's because we are gradually becoming the last line of defense when it comes to traditional religion in the world we're all that's left we are the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad and we've been entrusted with the millah of Ibrahim al-Islam to allow ourselves to become bullied or intimidated sastakhim kama umirt be upright as you have been commanded the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this eye turned my hair gray he had a few hairs in his temples they asked him what has made your hair gray he said be strong resolute, stand up straight a companion came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said in Islam don't ask anyone else tell me something unique about the religion the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that's it say I believe in Allah and be upright upon this there's nothing secret be strong be strong be firm don't be afraid stand up warn people about their behavior say Allahu Akbar purify yourself shunder the filaments and idolatry don't expect anything from them it's okay you don't need to become allies with them for what you need to sell the deen for what for a miserable price for what no Allah is enough it's way too short to be a sallallahu it's way too short so this is our project we have this dikhamah we're the last line of defense because the Jews no longer believe in traditional theology the historical critical method has destroyed the Torah most Jews are non-practicing they go to the synagogue for social purposes and most Jews are actually reformed Jews where they can eat whatever they want and their sharia is optional and many of them don't even believe in God I went to a reformed synagogue the rabbi was an atheist and they were having breakfast serving pork and I said this is a synagogue and they said do you want some of this bacon and I said no I don't need bacon and then I was sitting with some of the Jewish ladies and she said you're more Jewish than our rabbi that's a subhanallah the pope of the Roman Catholic Church saying some strange things he's constantly offending his traditional and conservative followers this is a leader of more than a billion Catholics talking about is there really a hell and it's okay civil unions something strange going on with this guy most Christian churches in the west have actually let the woke circus through their doors they've capitulated to the same coercive liberalism that has overrun the academy like a scourge they succumbed to the mob that claim that their beliefs are not only offensive but violence your beliefs are violent the mob said yes yes and they let the circus in and once you let the circus in as I say once you let the circus in sooner or later the clowns will run the show this is why I can't even go to a church anymore I used to do a lot of interfaith dialogue I can't do anymore because it's all the circus amazingly during this time people in the west continue to convert to Islam there's not surprising it makes sense Islam is a religion of human fitrah it appeals to our natural disposition people naturally love monotheism they're attracted to the simplicity of Muslim worship bowing and prostrating without icons no statues they're attracted to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is respectful to others yet uncompromising when it came to his principles they respect that they're attracted to him because he's a gentleman they see that he's a real man they're attracted to how Islam recognizes the difference and uniqueness of men and women they're not equal sorry they are equal but not identical they're equal but not identical they're compliments not rivals not antagonists go up to now and take a class at UC Berkeley Gender Studies they say marriage is rape this is what you're teaching marriage is rape because everything's power dynamics and a man is visible power over you so anytime in intimacy it's rape de facto don't get married you're a strong independent woman what do you need a man for this is what you're teaching women people are tired of this and Islam for them is totally refreshing in the face of the current zeitgeist and there's a place for orph it's called culture there's a maxim in the sharia al-ma'rufu orfan that which is known through custom or culture is like that which is legislated through revelation but there's a caveat any cultural practice must be circumscribed within the hudud the bounds of the sharia which is to highlight the revelation which is from Allah SWT there's no obedience to creation and disobedience to Allah SWT and you notice that children because they're on the fitrah they love Allah as messenger and children with terminal cancer never complain because they accept the qadr go to a cancer ward full of children they're sitting on beds with their bald heads they're laughing, they're playing games they're playing with their dolls the parents are sitting there crying weeping, the children are fine they're awliya but then they go to public schools and colleges and they become exposed to postmodern philosophy and critical theory and deconstructionism atheistic materialism radical feminism poststructuralism, radical hermeneutics this is all nonsense wallahi, it is nonsense go to a museum of modern art because modern art is the artistic equivalent of their literature go to the MoMA the museum of modern art in San Francisco there's a pile of sticks on the ground people looking at, oh amazing so what are you looking at, this? there's one, there's a wallahi like a five-year-old type of crayon and people looking at it, oh ooh that is amazing and I took my head my daughter went through her, I went with her on a field trip I'm looking at work, this is a joke their literature is just like this it's all pseudo profundity it's all like this, a highfalutin language that means nothing, it's nonsense they make up these terms that mean nothing there's one, it was blank wallahi blank canvas people looking at it so we have these Muslim children going to this university sitting in these classes and this professor talking about the intersectional materialistic wave of the fourth I don't understand this, I must be an idiot that's what the Muslim is thinking because I don't get this, no it's nonsense have Istifan get in and get out of that class don't join any clubs I can't believe it, I'm saying it don't even join the MSA I can't believe it, I was the MSA president all in Helga, at my college we used to do gawa we used to have debates at home but their fitra takes a hit when they enter these schools in their common sense's question but then eventually they get older and wiser with experience and then they start to do some real thinking on their own, inshallah and they realize later sadaqallah that these unnatural deceptive and irrational philosophies are making people miserable these philosophies turn the world into a godless battleground where different identity groups are constantly vying for power everything becomes a struggle for power these backward philosophies turn people into mean spirit itself, righteous cynics it bifurcates the world to two classes the oppressed and the oppressor and ironically, those who are often labeled as oppressed are actually the oppressors and vice versa and toba, shukr and towagu are thrown out the window these are three of the greatest theological virtues toba repentance is replaced with living your authentic self you need to just accept yourself if you accept yourself that you make your own rules no right, no wrong, no rules for me I'm not free, let it go this is from frozen this is a Disney movie I make my own rules I don't answer to anybody therefore I can never sin I don't have to make toba mashallah shukr is replaced with self victimization I'm a victim who should I, grateful to who? my dad, this misogynist you mean the man who raised you the man who loved you like this, like this he'll give his life to save your wife that misogynist that guy who believes in two genders then towagu is replaced with off the charts narcissism towagu means humility what's humility? are you kidding me? humility? people can't sleep at night wake up at three in the morning a new follower Allah new and strange anyway the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam be in the end of the time the people who reject you from the hadith that you didn't listen to and you don't have your father so be with them don't be disappointed or as the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said towards the end of time the spiritual liars and postures will make statements that neither you nor your ancestors have ever heard in other words they're going to say things that are absolutely irreconcilable with our faith tradition that no muslim has ever heard and yet they will justify themselves religiously now this is called radical permanuities right this is what our kids are exposed to in colleges you know you're going to take a class in true to the Quran oh good luck what's going to be your first assignment a queer reading of the story of Lot in the Quran the literary method of postmodernism is called deconstructionism that's a term for the note takers deconstructionism usually sister's sake that's the boys already made memorization here it goes deconstructionism what does it mean there is no metanarrative there is no orthodox there is no normative reading of any text there is no normal reading there is no such thing as orthodoxy don't let a bunch of oppressive cisgender, heteronormative male ulama tell you what these verses mean they can mean whatever you want you see they can't change the nas they can't change the text of the Quran if they could they would but they would butcher the tafsir the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said lest they misguide you or involve you in their fitna the prophet said honor the scholars you know those cisgender, heteronormative honor the scholars they are the inheritors of prophets wa man akrama wa man akrama hum faqat akrama wa rasoola wa kumma qala alayhi sallatu wa sallam whoever honors them is the most important the izzah of this deen is being discovered by many non-muslims Allah is in charge they've noticed that there is something about Islam that prevents Muslims from surrendering their moral truth they notice that there is something about Islam that prevents Muslims from groveling and genuflecting before the mob that we have istiqama we stand up straight people are coming to this deen and we say to them whoever they are welcome to this religion sorry for going with the time we have both time for questions yes sir I think this question that I have will probably be applicable to everyone how do we respond to individuals who ask us to use their preferred pronoun and that pronoun is not in alignment with their biology I would just say I respectfully decline it's against my religion we play the religion card why not? I'm a Muslim it's against my religion and if you say it like that I prefer no this guy has a big it he thought about it but if you say if you give it to them like this it's against my religion right it's like forcing me to eat pork would you force me to eat pork? no of course not okay don't force me to do something that's against my religion that's how we have to frame this is my faith, this is my religion and I have a first amendment right at least in this country to practice my religion your pronoun doesn't match your gender and I believe there's two genders oh I'm triggered too bad too bad people need to hear the truth sometimes and maybe Allahu Allah there's a brother in this musket who in high school gave me a hard check and I was angry with them and I thought well I'm going to say this brother and then I just thought about it and he's right so we internalize what's thought about it and this person is reflective if he's honest with himself or hurt himself them so then it's all a little benefit then sometimes you need a little pinch of truth but I would use that language this is against my religion or sometimes at work they make me wear a little flag in June like a little rainbow flag oh we're wearing flags today this is against my religion it's like forcing me to eat pork it's like forcing me to worship an idol exactly like that just like that none of this none of this wish washi stuff istiqama means you stand up straight it's to the point the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam his speech was very to the point no kind of dilly dally wishy washy if they notice a little weakness this guy's a bigot because he has a choice and he made a decision he's not going to do it that means that there's a little leeway there yes sir I don't know if you're aware of course lately we've seen and saw some videos showing that the teachers I think the clowns are hearings don't let them in keep the circus out some teachers are actually encouraging the children to join during the lunch at some of the clubs they tell them not to tell their parents about it so what do we have to do actually I'm not saying as Muslims I'm straight people that believe in the Lord Christian Muslim Jewish that actually know that God has punished Sadaam and Amor because of what they were doing so what should we do now because this is what they do in kindergarten the teacher says do you feel like a girl today it hits the fits around the little boys go come on who feels like a girl today I feel like a boy today and then the next day okay boys feels like a girl they actually encourage my advice is pull them out of a public school a public school is an absolute pit of vipers it's like public school is just I thought it was bad when I was in public school I'm thinking like in 1980s in Khomeini and Iran and things like that that was paradise because I was just kids being bullied but now the curriculum you have to homeschool your kids you have to homeschool them and homeschool them and in high school you sort of have to do a co-op or something and then take your chances in college just go from A to B don't join any clubs and you're the best you can in trauma it's difficult but I don't suggest going to public school this is getting it up for you we are giving up our rights in public schools not giving you something different yeah homeschool the kids start a co-op we have some your children are more important than these rights to go to public school public school is not beneficial for them anyway some states they started making some rights and wanting to actually dismiss the board of education which happened in a couple of states so this is actually one thing we have to support and do you like it? yeah I mean if it's not feasible to there's no other option the kid has to go to public school you just have to howl these school boards and then ask your children to be very honest with you with what they're reading and actually go physically to the library of these schools and look at some of these books they actually display these books, my two dads my husband it's the other one yeah they have pornographic pictures inside this is for like elementary school children this is grooming this is child abuse and I would use that language again at the school board I think this is child abuse what you're doing to my own son or daughter let them hear this language you know and just howling them you know parents should show up to these school board meetings parents should be always talking to teachers what did you teach my son or daughter if there's no other option but that's also difficult to do because people working are busy it's difficult very very difficult and then the child or she goes to Sunday school learns something about Islam but it's only once a week and the aunties and uncles are doing the best they can but then they go to university it's so deep man this uncle over here what does that guy know he can't even speak English properly it's a fit now of our time it's very different to them just 10 years ago it was very very different all of this seeped in in the 90s right it comes primarily from Foucault this French philosopher named Foucault who actually was a professor in Tunis in the 1960s so postmodernism is very very prevalent even in the Middle East and he was a MIT professor of linguistics he actually said that when he speaks in the Middle East the Muslims actually are more skeptical about objective truth than students in the West he'll talk about history and the Muslims in the Muslim majority countries will say this is all your perception there's no such thing as objective history this is everywhere this is a global phenomenon then you just read Foucault's works I mean this guy is an extremely disturbed individual of course he kind of fell in love with these sort of pre-aids sometimes he just gave arcing he died of AIDS but that's their hero you go to SBL, Society of Biblical Literature these seminaries they have an annual conference these are Bible students you go and just attend one of these sessions they're quoting Foucault and Derrida these are the two big guys Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Laszlo, Matthew no no Foucault, Derrida, Foucault, Derrida Foucault, Derrida First Kings, Deuteronomy Genesis, no these are the prophets our hope is in this dunya if you depend on the dunya your heart will be broken the dunya is made to break your heart that's what the dunya is made to do you can't depend on the dunya people that don't believe in an afterlife they want justice in this world they want to replace God with some sort of government and that's happened in the past hundreds of millions of people died because they want absolute radical egalitarian laws the society is naturally hierarchical you can't level all of society you can't be just in an absolute sense and on the day of judgment we don't want justice from Allah SWT no one wants justice he wants Rahman on that day you're not going to be saying no justice you don't want justice that doesn't mean that we don't try to be just in the world, of course we try to idealism is very important you know, justice but we understand that it's never going to be absolute justice will never manifest in this world it's impossible, it will never manifest it's always going to be injustice it's the nature of the world Allah SWT that we give you days of varying fortunes we alternate these things amongst the people Allah SWT says we will test you in this world how does it matter? I want you to be ashamed of what you do what you do what you do I'm going to test you with loss of wealth and loss of fruits of your labor loss of your cells people are going to die what you do give glad tidings to the patient ones this is our project in this world is to be patient and the world goes by quickly there's no reason to salat you don't need an ally inna maa uliyukum allahu rasoolu wa ladina aman inna maa uliyukum allahu rasoolu wa ladina aman aladiniyukum masalatu yutunna zakatum raki'urum wa mayatua allahu rasoolu wa ladina aman finnahizbu allahu umu lali'um your only ally is Allah SWT and Allah is sufficient right? when the mujahideen returned from uh uh the monathik in madina he said inna naseqat jalu alakum fakhshuuhum people are gathering against you be afraid of them what the sahaba say hasbuna allahu ni'mad wa keem Allah is sufficient is sufficient as a disposer of affairs in the next few years it's going to be very difficult it's going to be very difficult life in the next decade or so two decades there's ebs and flows but generally it's going like this there's a downer so people are going to be tested with their eemah so we have to have istiqama read the Qur'an be acquainted with the book of Allah SWT study the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam how did he deal with these situations how did he deal with the sunnah how did he deal with situations read the stories in the Qur'an what was their sin we have it now the brother mentioned what about them the largest the new LGBTQIA whatever capital of the world now is no longer San Francisco you know what it is San Francisco has been eclipsed goodbye frisco Tel Aviv in Israel it's six miles from Salam and Gomorrah the largest parade on earth passes by the cities of the plains Salam and Gomorrah look at us what are you going to do now even Isa alayhi sallam according to the gospels he sent his disciples out and he says whoever rejects the gospel shake the dust of that city off your legs, off your feet even the cities of Salam and Gomorrah will fare better on a day of judgment than those cities that means they're all going down this is according to Isa alayhi sallam in christian text nothing more than what he says but you go to a church around them it's a circus what happened why did you sell out where's your religion Allah says in the Quran let the people of the gospel let them judge, we want them to do that we have that in common no, they're judged by their ahwa what feels great whatever feels good I guess the age of human I think everyone Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic


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Yeah with snooping Pete judging dude Dude the NFL was like we got to get the two people that will be the most high and make them judge this catch contest We got to get the two people that are for sure gonna smoke a lot of weed before the catch contest and have them judge it Ronko's rookie auto Greg Dulcich 18 of 35 Vikings elegance patch auto France Harkington on card 14 of 35 Cool hit for the Vikings there Rookie landscape auto for the Chiefs Skymore 16 of 99 For you'd be cool. Players won't even do it after they get drafted really Rookie landscape auto jets Garrett Wilson 10 of 99 jets and redemption on the back Seahawks elegance rookie helmet and nameplate auto Kenneth Walker the third It'd be an awesome card to get for you Seattle. There we go. That'll be really awesome All right guys Bar card is the last card of the night And it is a Troy ounce of fine silver for the New York Giants Lawrence Taylor Phil Sims Michael Strahan Eli Manning three of 25 Some solid quarterbacks getting carried by great defenses if you ask me Sorry how to first aid Congrats Giants on that one three of 25 silver bar LT Sims Strahan Eli Eli is the winning coach and the Pro Bowl, right? Yeah, Peyton Peyton was mad about something. I don't know what but he was mad All right, here we go y'all recap time So one of the only size cards actually fits in it All right, here's all the autos that we had we had Garrett Wilson Skymore Greg Dulcich Chris Long Sam Howell Dawson Knox Jonathan Taylor James Harrison the Marvin Leal John Matchy the third Christian O'Coye Fran Tarkenton Antonio Gibson We had Seahawks Redemption elegance rookie helmet and nameplate auto Kenneth Walker the third It'd be great one for the Seahawks to get silver bar Giants LT Sims Strahan and Eli 25 Patch and helmet rookie auto Ritter for the Falcons of 75 and On card Barry Sanders auto immortal ink for the Lions three of five and that's gonna do it Thanks everybody talk to you in just a moment here


We've reached the conclusion of the 2015 NCHA Great American Insurance Summer Spectacular. We've had the big final tonight, the Open Derby, and I'm with the winner, Gary Gunsalves, who rode Raisin the Cache with a fantastic score of 227. Congratulations, Gary. How does it feel right now? Awesome. Feels good. So this is your first big-time win in the Will Rogers? Yeah. First major in this arena, so it's something that you dream of. And the goal of mine, and glad that I fulfilled it. Well, you were definitely a crowd favourite, and Raisin the Cache lived up to its name because that's exactly what it did tonight, the horse. Yeah, absolutely. I knew if I did my job, he'd do his, so I was happy that it turned out that way. Now, there was a lot of talk about this horse at the Ferturity, and it didn't necessarily work out. So what does tonight's win mean for you? It just basically don't give up. And we just, we went through some hard times and kept going and had a lot of supportive people, and just got to just don't give up, just keep after it, and that's all we've done. And through the show, and he's gotten easy to work and easy to show, and so there's some horses and trainers that takes a little bit, so I'm glad that I got to do some good on them. So tell us about your run tonight. Describe it as you went through it. Like the first cow was, we liked two white cows, a carpet-backed white cow and another white cow with wickers on her tail, and so we went in the, and they were in good spots, so I cut them first.  Did you have a feeling that you had it in the bag? I knew after the last cow was going to be pretty good, but you never know. I mean, it felt good, felt like he'd done enough. Well, it was a pretty convincing win, you had a four-point lead. So in their eyes, I guess we were obviously the winners tonight, but he's just a really good athletic, smart horse that deserves this. So why do you like this horse so much? What makes it special, because as I said, there's a lot of people talking about this horse, and you were a crowd favorite. Just I think he is really strong, low-moving, never picks up through a turn, and just can look good going slow and look great going fast, there's just has a full package I think, I mean, as far as all the horses I've ridden, he's probably the best. Now, Gary, I believe that your father passed away recently, he was a trainer. Tell us a little bit about him and what this would have meant to him tonight. Well, I really wanted to win something for him here, and I'm glad that I got to do this. He would have been really proud, and he really liked that horse, so he'd be real happy. I'm glad that I got to do that and do it for my family, and it means everything to us. I'm sure he's looking down tonight and beaming. Yeah, I'm sure he is. So what are you going to do now? Just keep showing the socks off this horse? No, I think that we're going to be selective where we show them, but we're going to go to Colorado this next week and work our three-year-olds, and then we usually do the fall paternities and stuff, and I'm sure that we'll take him and finish a year out with them. There's a couple of more bigger cuttings to go to that we'll keep showing them. Well, I know you said previously that you sometimes don't even come to the Derby. I bet you're so glad this year you didn't miss it. He's the biggest reason why I came to the Derby, so if you have good horses like him, and then all my four-year-olds, it's worth coming. Congratulations again. It was an awesome effort. Thank you.