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Audio 43 (PL2)Dr. Khalifa reads a Friday sermon by Imam Warith Deen Muhammad on the opposition, infiltration and schemes faced by those who do good, and his urging to read the Quran daily in English. He then answers a group that came to challenge his translation, comparing renderings of verse 22:15 that suggest suicide with his own, and recounts how he arrived at it as a sign his translation is authorized.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 43 (PL2)Community members talk informally over tea about rising prices, visiting friends and family, and stamps and money from Franco's Spain. Talk turns to a different translation of the Quran and how it approaches some verses, with the point that God taught man how to pray. Later remarks touch on a man used by others in a search for identity and on setting up a formal debate with written questions.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 44Dr. Khalifa leads a study of Sura 64 and Sura 70, on God's omnipotence and guarantee of happiness, the Day of Mutual Blaming, and the traits of believers who observe the contact prayers. He stresses teaching children chastity, explains common law and arranged marriages under the Quran, and shows the count of the word God in the new translation as part of the mathematical code.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 44 (PL2)A community member reports on a project to type the entire Arabic Quran into a computer so Dr. Khalifa's work on the code 19 can be reproduced and checked by others. He reflects on Sura 57:25 and iron as technology, the timing of the computer and its role in revealing the Quran's mathematical miracle, and compares the Quran's precise wording to a computer program, urging worship of God alone.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 45Dr. Khalifa and community members discuss the soul and its connection to the body, life after death, and the caterpillar and butterfly as God's allegory for the hereafter, with the righteous alive at their Lord. Further topics include dreams, idol worship nullifying all works, the four prohibited meats, mentioning God's name before eating, following parents blindly, and the contact prayers, alongside readings on the messenger of the covenant.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 46Dr. Khalifa leads a study gathering on Suras 37, 38 and 9, teaching that the utmost submitter is content with whatever God gives, that every affliction stems from one's own wrongdoing, and that God's allies enjoy happiness in this world. He discusses the jinn companion, the hypocrites, the distribution of charity, and contact prayers before the Quran, ending with the command to write down loans.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 46 (PL2)The Quranic word Injil, traced from the Greek euangelion through the Latin and the English gospel, all meaning good news. The speaker argues that God gave Jesus a message, not a book, since the written Gospels describe his death and only contain that message. He then outlines the message: worship of one God alone, confirmation of the Torah, and individual accountability on the Day of Judgment.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 47Dr. Khalifa reads and explains the opening pages and introduction of his new Quran translation, proclaiming one religion for all the people: submission to God alone, which unifies all scriptures. Topics include the great heavenly feud, Satan's challenge to God's absolute authority, the age of 40, the messenger of the covenant prophecies in Deuteronomy and Malachi, and the mathematical code based on 19, with audience questions.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 47 (PL2)A community member speaking in Tucson argues that the Quran alone is the source of religious law and that the Muslim masses err by mixing it with hadith and sunna. Citing verses such as 6:38, 6:114 and 75:19, the speaker holds that the Quran is complete, fully detailed, and explained by God alone. He uses proof by contradiction against hadith and describes hadith and sunna as a test separating true Muslims from so-called Muslims.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 48God gives humans a second chance to redeem themselves after going along with the crowd, and Dr. Khalifa sets out the minimum needed to avoid being swept in the crowd again: the five contact prayers, zakat, fasting, and remembering God constantly. He also gives criteria for recognizing a true messenger, warns that idol worship is the only unforgivable offense, and answers audience questions.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 49The mathematical miracle of the Quran based on the number 19 leads off, with Rabbi Judah the Pious, verse 46:10, God's signature in creation, and counts of verses, suras, and the word God. Dr. Khalifa then explains why we are here: Satan's challenge to God's absolute authority and the second chance God offers the rebels as humans. Questions from the audience follow, on free will and on people who never receive the message.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 50Community members and Dr. Rashad Khalifa study Suras 92, 93 and 94 of the Quran verse by verse at a Friday night gathering. The night and the day serve as signs of this life and the Day of Resurrection, and the talk stresses God's control of all things, charity as a continuous duty that begins with family, kindness to orphans and beggars, care in speaking of God, and controlling anger.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 51Satan's limited sight and growing loss of control, illustrated by AIDS and by the Quran's mathematical miracle being discovered inside the world's biggest brewery. The talk also covers the soul shrinking when we fail to worship God alone, every person's jinn companion, four kinds of disasters, the five daily prayers as a gift from God, and Quranic verses on obsolete miracles and Satan's challenge.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)
