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Audio 1A study session on Sura 73 covers night meditation, the contact prayers with stress on the dawn prayer, and worshiping God alone as the message of every messenger. Speakers discuss why people reject that message, God doing everything, meeting provocation without anger, and the true sizes of believers and idol worshipers in the Hereafter. Dr. Khalifa notes that the generations still to come will receive the Quran's mathematical proof.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 2A community study session on Suras 95 and 96 examines God's oaths by the fig, the olive, Mount Sinai and the honored town, man created in the best design and reverted to the lowliest, and the first revelation to Muhammad. Participants discuss plants as chemical factories, translating alaq as embryo or clot, two false verses rejected by the code 19, and why God gave a second chance.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 2 (PL2)Study circle participants trace how hadith, sunna and jurisprudence displaced free inquiry in Muslim learning, likening it to church tradition overtaking the gospel, and argue that one should turn to God rather than hadith to understand the Quran. They weigh engineering ethics against utilitarian and consumer values, then study Sura 1, reading the straight path as the path of the righteous and the hypocrites as a subset of the disbelievers.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3God's description of the best community ever raised in Sura 3, verses 110 to 117, anchors a study of unity, advocating righteousness, forbidding evil, God's covenant and the people's covenant, and righteous Jews and Christians who lack the contact prayers. Dr. Khalifa then presents new findings on the word God and the code of 19, which confirm Sura 9's 127 verses, and on the messenger of the covenant in 3:81 and 33:7.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3 (PL2)A study circle works through Sura 2, verses 16 to 37, led by Dr. Rashad Khalifa with community members. Topics include the hypocrites and conditional worship, the challenge to produce a sura as a mathematical rather than literary one, whether God misleads, the two deaths and two lives, the covenant of Sura 7:172, and Adam, the names, and Satan as a fallen angel.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3 (PL2)A study session on the story of Adam in the Quran's second sura contrasts it with the Bible, where Adam names the animals himself. Participants debate whether the names God taught Adam are objects or God's own qualities, which angels without bodies cannot exemplify. Discussion moves to Adam and his wife in Paradise, the tree, God's forgiveness, the descent to earth, and God's promise of guidance.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 4A Quran study session works through Sura 3:118 to 129, on the warning against befriending outsiders who wish believers harm, the assurance that their schemes cannot hurt the steadfast, and the Battle of Badr with its 3,000 and 5,000 angels. Discussion turns to Sura 37, the jinns, translating rising of the heavenly bodies, the shahada as witnessing God alone, Ramadan dates, and why the people of Heaven will not grieve for those in Hell.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 4 (PL2)Arabic language drills on broken plurals make up the core of the tape, with patterns read for repetition, exercises giving plurals and singulars, and sentences changed from singular to plural, closing with the end of lesson 13. Earlier portions hold singing, music, crowd sounds, and unclear speech in several languages.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 5Study of Sura 56 from verse 75, where God swears by the positions of the stars, read against the vastness of the universe and the Quran's mathematical code, including a circle of verse numbers divisible by 19. Dr. Khalifa explains why God took some souls before age 40, the first generation of believers, and Sura 57's opening on God's full control. Children sing about remembering God.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 5 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa presents slides from his evolving book showing that following any source besides the Quran sets up another god beside God. He argues that Muhammad was represented by the Quran alone, that obeying the messenger means obeying his Quranic utterances only, and that Hadith and Sunna are conjecture. He also cites 9:120 on not fearing to upset disbelievers and uses the moon's rotation to illustrate God's design.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 5 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa argues from the Quran that hadith and sunna are conjecture and that Muhammad was a human being like us who could err, citing the marriage to his adopted son's divorced wife and the incident with the blind man. He reads the verse on God and His angels supporting the prophet in context, rejects the hadith of the guided caliphs, and teaches that true love of Muhammad means following the Quran alone.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 6A community study of Sura 59 covers the spoils of war going to the poor and needy, the invisible giants God sends to protect believers, hypocrites and their divided allies, and the plea to remove hatred among believers. Dr. Khalifa likens remembering God and the contact prayers to deposits in an eternal retirement account, rejects the Sunni and Shia abuse of verse 7, and discusses the closing verses on God's names.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 7Suras 62 and 63, Friday and the Hypocrites, are studied verse by verse: the donkey carrying books, the claim of being God's chosen, the duty of men and women to attend the Friday prayer, and why hadith must be rejected even when it narrates a truth. Dr. Khalifa announces the new Arabic and English translation, recounts how two false verses entered Sura 9, and discusses intercession and 2:62.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 7 (PL2)A study circle reads Sura 2 of the Quran on the children of Israel: concealing revelations, distorting scripture by hand, and the claim that hell lasts only a few days, which the group rejects alongside Muslims who expect the Prophet's intercession and Ahmadi translations. Talk turns to the killing of prophets, idolizing versus disrespecting messengers, the heifer and the murder victim, and the two times foretold in Sura 17.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 8A study session on Sura 65 and Sura 66 covers the messenger leading believers out of darkness into the light, divorce provisions and the role of judges, and the seven earths with life only here as evidence against atheist evolution. Discussion turns to the Prophet's fallibility, exhorting children to observe the contact prayers, sincere repentance, and the examples of Noah's and Lot's wives, Pharaoh's wife, and Mary.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 9A study session on Surah 70 explains the day equal to 50,000 years through the relativity of time and the speed of light, then turns to the traits of those who observe the contact prayers. Dr. Khalifa stresses teaching children chastity before marriage, addresses common law marriage, charity, and anxiety, and touches on reading the Quran to non Arabs and how Gabriel delivered revelation to Muhammad.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 10Quranic study of Sura 71, Noah, and Sura 72, the Jinns, held at the mosque in Tucson. Speakers discuss Noah's persistent preaching, the jinns as human companions who convert after hearing the Quran, and the rule that places of worship belong to God alone, so no other name is mentioned in the contact prayer. Dr. Khalifa also counsels children to keep their chastity until marriage.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 10 (PL2)Awareness of God is the subject of this talk, which presents unawareness as the central human problem. Drawing on Quran verses including 7:179, 10:7, and 16:106, the speaker describes people who have minds, eyes, and ears yet do not understand, see, or hear, who are content with this life and heedless of meeting God, the Hereafter, and accountability.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 10 (PL2)Verses 85 to 92 of Sura 2 are studied in a group discussion, beginning with the children of Israel killing one another while ransoming their captives, and the warning against upholding one part of scripture while rejecting another. Speakers discuss rejection of the Quran out of resentment and the killing of prophets, and how Satan led Jews to disrespect their messengers while Christians and Muslims idolize Jesus and Muhammad.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 11A Quran study session works through verses from Suras 16, 11, 10 and 23 as proofs of God. The group discusses the bee kingdom and honey as healing, milk, spouses and reproduction, genes and DNA, Noah and his drowned son, Hud and his people, idols disowning their worshipers on the Day of Judgment, and God's control of hearing and eyesight, with stories about aging parents.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 11 (PL2)Gabriel's role as mediator of revelation, discussed from the verses on Gabriel and Michael, and how the Quran was placed in Muhammad's soul much as every soul holds its pre-birth witness that God is Lord. Angels who wake believers for the dawn prayer, including one that spoke to Dr. Khalifa in an Egyptian accent. The guardian angels of verse 13:11, and a story of a gas furnace and a lesson about marijuana.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 12A heated community meeting confronts a dispute in which a member, Adip, accused Dr. Khalifa of denying God's omnipotence, raising how believers must treat the messenger of the covenant: not raising voices, not placing opinions above God and His messenger, and not idolizing one's opinion. Dr. Khalifa explains God's system of using angels, citing the creation of Jesus and Adam. Dressing for the mosque and the lesson of the Heifer follow.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 12 (PL2)Adam and his wife in the garden, read through the Quran's verses on the garments of righteousness in Sura 7 and Sura 20. The speaker compares Satan's two temptations, to become angels or immortal and to gain the tree of eternity and a kingdom, and argues that the exposed parts mean what was hidden rather than shameful. He holds that death was never a punishment, only their early eviction.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 13A study of the great feud in the high society: Satan's rebellion, God's plan to give humans bodies of clay and jinns bodies of fire, and the angels serving humans on earth. The discussion covers Adam and Eve's bodies in paradise, the covenant before creation, free will, the soul and brain death, the shahada as witness, and opposition to the Quran's mathematical miracle.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 13 (PL2)Abrogation is rejected: the Quran never cancels its own verses but supersedes provisions of earlier scriptures, with 5:48 cited. The study then turns to 2:111 to 2:116, holding that whoever submits to God alone, even a Buddhist, is saved, and that barring people from the masjids is the greatest evil. Sura 19 closes it, refuting the sonship of Jesus, the three days in the tomb, and Isaac as the sacrifice.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 14Commemoration of God on what the speakers call the greatest of all nights, when angels descend to carry out every command and God accepts prayers. Chanting of La Elaha Ella Allah alternates with talks on glorifying God by free will, God alone as our master and the highest freedom, sins wiped out through commemoration, and the soul's original witness that only God is our Lord.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 14 (PL2)A Friday sermon on awareness of God's greatness in the contact prayer, drawing on God's design in the tilt of the Earth, the seasons, ripening fruit, the blue sky, and the human body. It then turns to Satan's three objectives, atheism, idol worship, and division among believers, calls for forgiving one another, and explains why disrespecting the prophet would be forgivable while idol worship is not. Discussion of the Holy Spirit and Gabriel follows.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 14 (PL2)Salvation for Jews and Christians who believe in God and the Last Day and lead a righteous life, and the Quran's command to make no distinction among the prophets. Discussion turns to how mentioning Muhammad in the prayer and the call to prayer idolizes him, whether to pray in mosques where such idol worship occurs, and the obligation to perform Hajj despite idolatrous practices at Mecca.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 15Study session on Suras 54, 55 and 56 with Dr. Khalifa and community members, covering warnings followed by retribution, the ranks in the high and lower heaven, and why the first generation of believers in God's renewed message earns special credit. Discussion also covers the number 19 code as a sign for the computer age, the age of 40, jinns, the soul's growth through the contact prayers, and Genesis on Abraham's only son.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 15 (PL2)Abraham as the founder of submission is the focus of a group study of Sura 2, verses 124 to 134, covering his test, his search for God, the shrine of Mecca, and the prayer for a peaceful land with fruits. Discussion turns to Islam as submission rather than a separate religion, God providing for believers and disbelievers, dietary prohibitions, personal responsibility versus original sin, and the mathematical proof of the Quran.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 15 (PL2)A group discussion with Dr. Rashad Khalifa that reads Quran 22:78 on the religion of Abraham, who named the believers Muslim, with the messenger serving as witness among them. Biblical passages on a coming prophet are also examined: Deuteronomy's prophet like Moses with God's words in his mouth, and the promise of another counselor, the spirit of truth. A brief exchange asks whether a reference points to Hanukkah or Christmas.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 16God's omnipotence and His guarantee of happiness to those who believe and lead a righteous life anchor a study of Suras 64, 70 and 59, covering the day of mutual blaming, relative time, the mathematical code as clear proof, and the two laws behind every event. Asides address executions in Iran, Rabbi Kushner's book, the morning prayer, spoils of war, community support, and hypocrites.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 17Quranic study of Suras 90 and 91: the sacred town of Mecca, humans created to work hard to redeem themselves, the two paths, and the difficult path of freeing slaves and charity. Dr. Khalifa notes the word God's mathematical placement in Sura 90, urges putting the five prayers first, especially the dawn prayer, and discusses Sura 83, the numerically structured book, and arm position during prayer.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 17 (PL2)A community speaker continues a study of the forbidden tree, comparing the Biblical account with the Quran and arguing that Satan's promise of immortality and lasting power tempts humanity toward shirk and the abuse of power on earth. Dr. Khalifa then teaches that God never ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, and explains the change of the qibla in Sura 2 as a test of submission.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 17 (PL2)The change of the qibla from Jerusalem to Mecca is read through Sura 2, verses 129 to 151, as a test that sorts out those who follow the messenger. Dr. Khalifa argues that the Kaaba, founded with Abraham, came long before the Jerusalem temple, and calls Muslims back to the original religion. He also explains why the Tucson mosque faces slightly south of east rather than northeast, citing a believer's dream.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 18Quranic study of Suras 81, 87, 88, 89 and 90 links the burial of baby girls to the oppression of women in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia today. Dr. Khalifa presents the mathematical evidence in Appendix 2 that Rashad Khalifa is God's messenger of the covenant and recounts the prophets acknowledging him. Members discuss the implosion of the universe, evolution, the camel, punishment through earthquakes, and charity.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 18 (PL2)The qibla, the command to face the Sacred Mosque in Mecca during the contact prayer, is studied through verses 2:144 to 2:152, with a globe showing the true direction from Tucson, slightly south of east, against the northeast direction promoted by the MSA. Steadfastness under God's tests follows, with the point that happiness comes as a side effect of conviction, not as the objective.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 18 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa recounts his imprisonment, the toughest test of his life, and how his release came only after he stopped objecting and submitted, saying we belong to God, as verse 2:156 teaches. A study of Hajj follows, explaining the Safa and Marwa as a commemoration of God providing for Hagar and Ishmael, and noting that the pillars of worship appear in Sura 2 in the order of the year.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 19Dr. Khalifa's Quran study of Sura 2 urges listeners to kill the ego and to observe the five contact prayers, building up gradually. He cites biblical prophecies of Muhammad and the messenger of the covenant, explains why scholars reject the Quran's mathematical miracle out of resentment, and describes witchcraft through the jinn and God's protection. He also announces the newly printed translation and the signs surrounding its completion.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 19 (PL2)A gathering discusses the timing of Hajj, the death of believers and disbelievers, and an extended debate on the true direction of Mecca across a curved earth. Dr. Khalifa announces Arabic lessons for comparing translations, mentions a million printed copies of the computer results, then begins study of verse 2:164 on the signs of God, citing the design of ears and teeth.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 19 (PL2)God's design in creation as signs for those who understand: swallowing and the heartbeat beyond our control, the alternation of night and day, water's unique properties, desert seeds that wait for rain, and the winds and clouds. Dr. Khalifa then turns to verses 2:165 to 167, on idols such as Muhammad and Jesus disowning their worshipers on the Day of Judgment, citing Matthew 7:23.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 20Study session on Sura 3, verses 1 through 20, centered on verse 7: straightforward verses as the essence of the scripture, multiple meaning verses pursued to create confusion, and who possesses knowledge. Dr. Khalifa teaches that believers have no grief and no fear, explains why Muslim becomes submitter in his translation, and discusses heaven's allegorical descriptions and the believer's sole mission to deliver the message.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 20 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa teaches that humans exist to worship God alone, using photographs of Earth and the vast universe to show God's greatness and the insignificance of idolized figures like Jesus, Mary, and Muhammad, who ate food and walked in markets. He shares news of the message spreading, announces Arabic lessons, and urges keeping original names. A discussion follows on Paul's influence on the Bible and man-made dietary prohibitions beyond the Quran.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 20 (PL2)Dietary prohibitions take center stage, with the Quran listing exactly four: animals that die of themselves, running blood, pork, and animals dedicated to other than God. Speakers warn that prohibiting what God permits brings poverty and hunger, citing 16:112, and discuss commercial meat, gelatin, blood sausage, and saying Bismillah before meals. The session closes by turning to the definition of righteousness in 2:177.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 21Study of Sura 9 covers hypocrites whose charity and lazy contact prayers God rejects, the distribution of charities, and recording loans with witnesses. A second session on Sura 56:75 to 96 reflects on God's oath by the positions of the stars, the vastness of the universe, the Quran's preservation, and why only the righteous could discover its mathematical miracle of 19, closing with the high heaven, lower heaven, and hell.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 21 (PL2)The Quranic law of equivalence in murder, read as a maximum of one soul for one soul that seeks excuses to spare lives and favors compensation, with the victim's kin as judge. The group contrasts this with capital punishment and prison, then turns to inheritance: fixed Quranic shares, the limits of a will, and adopted or non-Muslim children, whose exclusion it calls custom, not Quranic law.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 22Dr. Khalifa reads from Suras 39, 37, and 38 and teaches that the utmost submitter worships God alone and lives free of problems, since every affliction stems from something we have done. He explains the admission test, the jinn companion who whispers and seizes careless words, why not to defend idol worshipers even among our parents, and the story of David judging the two brothers over one sheep.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 22 (PL2)A community gathering with applause, laughter, and some speech in a foreign language, centered on a talk about remembering God and how readily people forget Him. The speaker points to God's power at work in nature, such as lightning and rain, and urges regular prayer. The talk also touches on morality and on raising children to be responsible.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)
