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Audio 22 (PL2)Informal conversation, much of it in a foreign language, about Middle Eastern leaders and Libya's Qaddafi, including his adoption of a national motto he later learned was not a genuine hadith and his remarks on the contradictions of hadith. Speakers weigh propaganda against a leader's own writings, recall a visit to Libya around 1970, and mention articles in the Egyptian press.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 23A community study of Sura 51, The Winds, led by Douglas Brown on the night of a wedding, covers rain and the atmosphere as signs of God's design, the code's evidence for the messenger of the covenant and the day of judgment, Abraham's angelic guests and the birth of Isaac, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Dr. Khalifa addresses Ishmael as Abraham's son, AIDS, and God's protection of believers.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 23 (PL2)Verses 2:183 to 2:186 on fasting, with Dr. Khalifa explaining that fasting was first decreed through Abraham, the exemptions and feeding a poor person, and that the whole Quran was placed in Muhammad's heart on the 27th night of Ramadan, then released gradually over 23 years so it could be memorized. Discussion also covers the contact prayer before sunrise as a test, steady progress in worship, and how God answers prayers.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 24Chapter 56 of the Quran is studied verse by verse, with readings from chapter 55, setting out the higher heaven, the lower heaven, and hell, and why multitudes come from the early generations but few from later ones. Dr. Khalifa tells believers that worshiping God alone amid ridicule makes them a first generation like Muhammad's, and members discuss the jinn, the contact prayer, and a prophecy of millions believing within 50 years.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 24 (PL2)Honesty with other people's money leads a study session: returning a cashier's mistaken change, bribery of officials, and the Quranic exception for those forced by circumstance. Discussion then turns to fighting only in self defense or against religious persecution, the contact prayer as a remedy against forgetting God, extra fasting, promises, and the reward of ten for each good deed, with an announcement about Quranic Arabic lessons.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 24 (PL2)Repentance and righteous works, from verse 25:63 onward, where God changes the sins of those who repent into credits, and why asking forgiveness must be joined with making amends to those we harm. The study turns to Hajj as a practice that masters the body, recalls a family pilgrimage, and explains that circling the Kaaba, like the angels falling prostrate before Adam, is obedience to God, not idol worship.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 25A community study of Sura 58 covers the expiation for estranging a wife as one's mother, God's presence at every secret meeting, conspiracy as the devil's work, charity before conferring with the messenger, and putting God above family. Dr. Khalifa notes this is the only sura with God's name in every verse. A visitor from Atlanta tells how he found the Quran and code 19 and began the contact prayer.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 25 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa teaches that no one enters Heaven with a single sin on record, drawing on the sin of Adam and Eve, and explains the two ways sins are erased: repentance and paying for them in this world. He identifies idol worship as the only unforgivable offense, argues that the Arabic language is not essential for believers, and answers questions on the evil eye, double reward for converts, and Hajj.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 26Verses of Sura 67, The Kingship, are read and explained: God's sole authority and the kingship He grants believers, life and death as a test from our original doubt, the seven universes, hell, believing God in privacy, and birds in flight as aerodynamics. A heated discussion follows on whether choosing God makes everything else easy, God's control versus personal responsibility, and the ego as the last idol.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 26 (PL2)Verses 2:196 through 2:214 guide a study session on Hajj: the specified months, abstaining from intercourse and arguments, stoning as a symbol of Satan tempting Abraham, gathering at Arafat as a reminder of the Day of Judgment, and seeking commercial benefit. Discussion then turns to people who add steps beyond what God says, to ingratitude after God's signs, and to persecution as a test of believers.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 27A Quran study session works through Sura 14 on Satan disowning his followers and the parable of the good and bad tree, then Sura 17 on resurrection, Satan driving wedges between believers, and the contact prayers as God's gift. Discussion covers temporary marriage near the Kaaba, parents' responsibility as examples, a pregnant teenager, schooling, teaching children to pray without beating them, and correcting a verse to unconscious.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 27 (PL2)A class on Adam's forgetting and the role of Satan as the source of forgetfulness, drawing on Surah 20:115 and related verses. The speaker explains the names God taught Adam and the breath of God's spirit in man as the capacity to know God, and presents revelation, the messengers, the Quran and the contact prayer as reminders that make the soul grow.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 28Study of Sura 46 leads into the mathematical miracle of the Quran, identifying the witness from the children of Israel as Rabbi Judah the Pious and his discovery of 19, then counting verses, numbers, and occurrences of God. The talk covers our origin as creatures who sided with Satan, readings from Sura 30 on God's signs and monotheism as instinct, and lighter discussion of sectarian rules.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 28 (PL2)Hardship as a mandatory test and a cleansing process, with God's promises in 24:55 and 65:2 to 4 and trust in God as the only true insurance. The study of Sura 2 continues with charity going first to parents and relatives, fighting permitted only in defense of the freedom to worship God, preparing a deterring force, oppression being worse than murder, and the evils of intoxicants and gambling outweighing their benefits.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 28 (PL2)Gambling, the lottery and windfalls such as uncanceled stamps open a study session on God's provision and on hardship as a test that cleanses believers. Verses on charity to parents, relatives, orphans and the poor follow, then fighting, which is permitted only to defend the freedom to worship God alone, with a deterring force, and why oppression is worse than murder.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 29Dr. Khalifa explains why Satan, unlike Adam and Eve, was not pardoned, and why worshiping God alone keeps a person in God's kingdom and under His protection, while calling on Muhammad, Jesus, or saints places one in Satan's kingdom. He answers questions on God's justice and freedom of choice, why bad things happen, praying for others, ablution and night prayer, tests, and repetition in the Quran.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 29 (PL2)Marriage under the Quran's law takes the lead: believers may marry Jews and Christians, yet not Muslims who reject the Quran as complete, illustrated from Sura 2 and the exception in Sura 5. The class then reads the verses on menstruation and continuous repentance, sins converted into credits, oaths judged by intention, the forgivable and unforgivable, and questions on hypocrites, testing, and following the Prophet's example.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 30Study of Sura 28 on God supporting the oppressed, Moses' infancy and flight from Egypt, and lessons of total confidence in God, alongside Sura 46:10 and Rabbi Judah the Pious discovering the number 19 in the scriptures. Covers the Quran's mathematical code, our origin in God's kingdom, the righteous not dying, Dr. Khalifa's experience recalled through the death of the righteous, and Sura 57 on worshiping God on faith.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 30 (PL2)A Friday sermon on letting the Quran explain itself, citing 6:38, 6:114 and 75:19, with cautions against leaning on the Jewish Bible or hadith and against using allegorical verses to sow dissension. The worked example is the nakedness of Adam and Eve: the speaker argues from 20:118, 7:22 and 7:26 that their lost garment was obedience, restored as the garment of righteousness.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 30 (PL2)Quran 2:62 and the minimum requirements for salvation: anyone, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or otherwise, who believes in God alone and the Last Day and leads a righteous life goes to heaven, with 3:113 to 3:115 on righteous Jews and Christians who pray by instinct. Earlier, the group discusses Sura 95, the fig and olive as Noah, Moses, and Abraham, and the garments of righteousness.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 31Sura 81 is studied verse by verse: the end of the world as an implosion, the resurrection of animals, and the buried baby girl, tied to the ongoing oppression of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan. Dr. Khalifa presents the mathematical evidence linking 3:81 and 81:19 to Rashad Khalifa as God's messenger of the covenant and recounts his 1971 summoning to the high horizon. Questions on Satan and the name Allah follow.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 31 (PL2)Satan exploits people's insecurity about the hereafter, leading them to seek other protectors and guarantees instead of God, and turns the family of believers against each other through gossip. The speaker argues that all four scriptures carry the same message, that your God is one, and that Christians followed Satan into dividing God and calling Jesus God or the son of God.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 31 (PL2)Questions and answers on divorce in the Quran: reconciliation during the separation period, the three month interim, the widow's waiting period of four months and ten days, and the rule that a thrice divorced woman must marry another man before returning. Dr. Khalifa warns against schemes to get around God's commandments and discusses high bride prices in Libya and Saudi Arabia.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 32 (PL2)A Quran study session works through Sura 2, verses 240 to 248: one year of support for widows, equitable alimony for divorcees, and the claim that Islam discriminates against women. Discussion turns to death as nothing to fear, fighting for the cause of God, Saul's appointment as king, and the Ark of the Covenant. It opens with praying under abnormal circumstances such as travel.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 33A community member leads a study of Sura 74, reading its opening instructions as addressed to the messenger of the covenant and verse 31 as God's announcement of the number 19. He recounts leaving revolutionary Iran disillusioned with religion and finding the message to worship God alone. Discussion follows on greed and contentment, the absence of intercession, refusing to judge others, and overusing the code.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 33 (PL2)Man's composite nature, a body of clay and the breath of God's spirit, is explained from the Quran as a trust for which every person is accountable. The talk treats worship as all righteousness and the duty to develop God given capacities, the body's material needs, and man as God's vicegerent on earth. It ties Adam's learning of the names, Satan's temptation of absolute power, and expulsion to revelation.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 33 (PL2)A speaker compares prayer on earth with prayer in paradise and the praise of the angels, then turns to Surah 10 verse 10 as the possible basis for saying Alhamdulillah before the closing salam of the contact prayer, a practice he says no prayer manual mentions. Informal talk follows on prayer customs, health and weight, and the grammar of colloquial Arabic.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 34God's infinite greatness, illustrated through the vastness of the seven universes, and why setting any human beside God is blasphemy, set against a debate on whether God is physical. Dr. Khalifa reads Sura 33: worshiping God alone, following only what is revealed, the rights of wives, keeping adopted children's birth names, and verse 7 showing Muhammad among the prophets who pledged support for the messenger of the covenant.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 34 (PL2)A study session on Sura 2 of the Quran, verses 256 to 259: no compulsion in religion, the freedom to believe or disbelieve, and God leading believers out of darkness into the light while idols lead disbelievers into darkness. Dr. Khalifa tells of opponents who refused to debate the issues, then discusses the man God put to death for 100 years, how God speaks to people, and why time disappears between death and resurrection.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 34 (PL2)A group discussion on time between death and the day of resurrection, arguing from the Quran that the interval passes like one night's sleep, so the last hour is near for everyone. Speakers compare Christian ideas of limbo, relativity physics, and people revived after accidents, then take questions on what the resurrected will know and on the record fastened to each person's neck.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 35Two mathematical miracles of the number 19 from Surah 74 verse 35 open the session: a long number built from surah and verse numbers, with zeros for the Basmalah, which collapses if the two false verses of Surah 9 are included. Readings from Surah 7 on Noah, Hood, and Saleh follow, showing every messenger met with the same rejection, with the ego and following the parents named as the chief idols.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 35 (PL2)A Quran study session on the hereafter: everyone first enters Hell, the period of God's physical absence, until God comes and becomes Heaven for the believers, while weak souls who sneak toward Heaven cannot stand God's presence. Abraham's four birds show that sincere believers may request reassurance, as the number 19 strengthens faith. Closing notes urge growing the soul through the dawn prayer and group commemoration.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 36Dr. Khalifa leads a study session on God's oneness, arguing that strict monotheism is a natural instinct and that calling Jesus the son of God is the gross blasphemy. He recounts how the Quran's mathematical miracle of 19 emerged while he worked at Anheuser Busch, and discusses Satan's incompetence, why children starve in Africa, hell and heaven as allegory, the Salman Rushdie affair, and the six days of creation.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 36 (PL2)Worshiping God alone, as the small minority who may be saving the earth from destruction like Noah's generation, while most Christians, Jews, and Muslims idolize Jesus, Muhammad, or tradition. Dr. Khalifa cites the California disasters, Joseph's patience in prison, Job's test by Satan, and a human skull to urge steadfastness and belief in the Hereafter. A study of Sura 2 on the etiquette of charity follows.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 36 (PL2)Community members discuss Quranic verses on charity, which say it should go first to those persecuted because of their belief and unable to support themselves, who never annoy people by begging. Speakers contrast them with professional beggars they met in Morocco, Egypt, and the East, and compare street performers in America. The talk opens with remarks that all power belongs to God, who alone guides people to believe.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 37A group Quran study moves through God's anger at the claim that He has a son, Adam's knowledge and Satan's rebellion, and the stories of Noah, Moses, and Aaron. Dr. Khalifa explains devotion to God alone without intercessors, the mathematical structure of the key and the 17 units of the contact prayer, removed innovations, and how to share the message calmly with family who become angry.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 37 (PL2)Usury in Quran 2:275 to 281 is the main subject, contrasted with charity as the opposite principle and set against high interest rates, inflation, the national deficit, and Arizona's lottery as sinful earnings God diminishes. Discussion covers bank accounts, debtors as victims, and messengers versus prophets, then turns to 2:282 on writing down loans with witnesses and closes with the final verses of Sura 2.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 37 (PL2)Making no distinction among God's messengers, with Muhammad and Noah both accepted as messengers, is the opening subject, illustrated by an analogy: what matters is the message, not the brand of radio that carries it. The discussion then turns to the innate knowledge of God every person is born with, citing verse 7:172, so that no one has an excuse, and to sincere believers who reject the idea of Jesus being God.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 38Dr. Khalifa explains how two false verses, 9:128 and 9:129, entered the Quran after the Prophet's death, why the mathematical evidence excludes them, and how their addition led to the assassinations of Uthman and Ali. The group also discusses worshiping God to attain certainty, giving the obligatory charity on the day of income, backbiting, usury, consultation as a political system, the jinn companion, and why most humans will have the true Quran.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 38 (PL2)Community members speak on the purpose of human life on earth, to worship God alone, citing Quran verses on Adam, Satan's expulsion from heaven, and righteousness. A later speaker, apparently Dr. Khalifa, discusses the Quranic initials as a secret unveiled after fourteen hundred years and as his sign that his translation is authorized by God, and explains why he first refused to publish it.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 38 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa presents Sura 9:31 as a criterion for telling whether one worships God or religious leaders: following scholars who contradict God, such as by praying silently against 17:110, is idol worship. He recounts signs that his translation is God's authorized English version, a prisoner's letter, and the numerical meaning of A.L.M. as God is One, and he previews books on the code and on Quran versus hadith.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 39Befriending disbelievers under Sura 60: neutral people may be befriended and helped, while those who fight believers because of religion may not, with Abraham as the example and rules for women who change camps. The study also covers obeying God and His messenger, the age of 40, and sectarianism in Sura 61. Questions follow on women leading prayer, joining congregational prayer late, and whether a rich believer is better than a poor one.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 39 (PL2)A study session on why those who reject God's revelation are isolated from the Quran, and why some verses, like the egg shaped earth and the number 19, are reserved for future generations. Dr. Khalifa explains the repeated defeat of 200 million Arabs as the result of abandoning the Quran for hadith, and discusses how the canonized gospels were selected while other scriptures were burned.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 40A community study of Sura 3, verses 59 to 79, opens with Jesus likened to Adam and the invitation to invoke God's curse upon the liars. Discussion covers the call to Jews and Christians to worship God alone, Abraham as a monotheist, ego and deception, prostration as practice for the Day of Judgment, the Nicene Creed, and verse 75 as proof that Muhammad wrote the Quran with his own hand.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 41A study of Sura 54, The Moon, reads the splitting of the moon as fulfilled by the moon landings and the mathematical code as a second fulfilled prophecy. Dr. Khalifa explains feeding the soul to prepare to meet God, the local flood and Noah's log raft, and everything created in exact measure. Questions follow on messenger RNA, Abraham's covenant, American foreign policy, and the Quran's support for freedom.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 41 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa takes up the question of whether millions of Muslims and Christians can all be wrong, citing Quranic verses that the majority will not believe and most believers fall into idol worship. He argues God is just because He implanted the instinct to worship Him alone, urges verifying everything per 17:36, and uses silent noon prayer, polygamy, and hadith to show scholars set up as gods beside God.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 42Criteria from the Quran for discovering whether one is an idol worshiper: becoming upset when God alone is mentioned, and following sources besides the Quran. Questions and answers follow on religious practices coming through Abraham, befriending Jews and Christians, living in the United States, ablution, praying for the dead, interest, insurance, loans, women attending Friday prayer, organ donation, and freedom of choice.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 43Dr. Khalifa teaches from Sura 17 that God alone and the Quran alone must be upheld, counting the word alone in the Quran and thanking God for purging idolatry from the contact prayer. He addresses Satan's limits and fear and grief, the claim that hadith is the wisdom, Jesus not being God, and the messenger of the covenant, and answers community questions on Joseph's family prostrating and on AIDS and population.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)
