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Did Rashad Khalifa claim to be a messenger of God?
muftis djinn jin jinnat jinni koran quraan al-quran sura soorah suwar soora ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat wahy wahi wahee khalifah caliph khulafa khilafah khilafat caliphate khilafa madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis shiah shi'i twelver ithna ashari 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa tawbah taubah repentanceDid Rashad Khalifa claim to be a messenger? Nabi and rasul, and the two verses of Surat al-Tawba
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe guest says Rashad Khalifa did claim to be a messenger, not a prophet, commissioned to unveil the miracle of 19, and that the Quran calls Muhammad the last prophet rather than the last messenger. Khalifa held the last two verses of Surat al-Tawba to be interpolations.
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Mufti Abu Layth asks whether it is true that Rashad Khalifa claimed to be a messenger of God. The guest says yes: before the claim, studying 19 in Turkey, he concluded that such a divine secret, unveiled according to the Quran only through messengers, meant God had chosen Khalifa, and he found that all derivatives of rashad occur exactly nineteen times, with the word itself twice in chapter 40 in a prophetic passage about Joseph and the last messenger, so he had no problem when Khalifa declared his messengership months later. Asked whether this meant receiving revelation or something like a scholar, the guest says a messenger commissioned by God to unveil his miracle and expose the Sunni and Shia distortions; he says the Quran calls Muhammad the last prophet, not the last messenger, a prophet being a messenger who also brings a book, which Mufti notes is the reverse of the common explanation. Mufti adds that Khalifa saw 19 everywhere except in two verses at the end of Surat al-Tawba, which he therefore considered interpolations into the mushaf.
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any clue about number 19 yet he discover exactly the following few months later and then first time in raju troubles he unveiled to the world i have that his declaration in Raja travels in Arabic in fact I posted somewhere in YouTube I have the cassettes of that one it is 1917 can I ask about Khalifa because you were very close to him dear friend and a mentor to you and obviously he's inspired useful in many ways as well as many of the people is it true that he
claimed to be then a messenger from God is this true people make this claim he claimed to be Messenger of God in fact he before he claiming to be Messenger of God I was in Turkey that time I haven't paid him I studied the Quran I look at his number 19 it is not a small thing it was incredible discovery it is divine secret that God led to this time for our generation the generation of computer and information and therefore I said this is because the Quran says God the secrets unveiled two messengers in the chapter 72
it's called jinn only the secrecy unveiled secrets through messengers while kulla shay'in added our God every counted everything numbers anyway I said this cannot be poisonous and God must have chosen this person and I checked I said let me look at his name what is it I found that the all the derivatives of Prashad is mentioned exactly nineteen times and the form rashad twice and my god it is exactly incredibly prophetic in chapter 40 if you read these ones it is beautifully incredibly prophetic
it is parallel happens exactly this time it was happened during Joseph most of Moses time I'm sorry in Egypt during Moses time it relates to Joseph and then people says Joseph was the last messenger they rejected Moses and God rejects them they said in the past you in fact when Joseph came as a messenger he rejected him but after him he made him as a lost messenger now your you are rejecting Moses in the name of Joseph
whom with the same mentality you rejected him while he was a messenger and therefore the world Rashad is mentioned sandwich in this verse about the last messenger anyway I mean he claimed by when I was in Turkey I look at this I said you must be a Messenger of God and then several months later when he declared his messengership I had no problem with that and after meeting him I I was convinced to be clear when he's saying messenger is he saying like I'm somebody who's like messenger I've received divine revelation or is he just saying I'm like a scholar a much they hate no
commissioned by God a messenger chosen by God to deliver to unveil his miracle and also to expose the Sunni and Shiite distortion against the Quran and he was he did that but the Quran doesn't make Muhammad as the most messenger the Quran clearly says McKenna Muhammad and ABI having Mary Jericho when I can go to Allah Mohammed is a Messenger of God and the last prophet it doesn't say most profit and lost messenger the Prophet is the one a
messenger who brings the book also but every every prophet is messenger but every messenger may not be so just for the view is that you can say huh termina being and Nabi is the one who brings scripture and you're saying a rasool is the one who just he can just revive a message Marshall yeah although I think commonly people do it the other way around isn't it yeah they say the Abhi's a book right okay and you know Rashad Khalifa when he analyzed the whole text he saw the number 19 standing up
everywhere except in those two verses and at the end of surah tauba that's why he felt maybe they were kind of interpolations into the massage yes I would like to discuss another point okay sure hey he himself was was unfortunately was assassinated is that correct yeah he was assassinated and it is also a major issue because in 1989 from 38 countries Muslim scholars gathered in Medina under the leadership of EDL boss the Saudi
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