Let Us Reason - A Christian/muslim Dialogue

Al Fadi says that he is starting a new series on why the standard Islamic narrative is sketchy.  Today he is discussing with brother Mel some of the reasons.  1. The idea that Mohammad was born in the year of the elephant.  2. Mohammad banning the worship of images and idols.  3. The location of Al Masjed Al Haram.  4. Praying at the tombs of Mohammad and others.  5. The idea that Islam is the fastest growing religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi continues his conversation with the hosts of Somali Christian TV You Tube channel.  They share that Somalis are afraid to leave Islam because they are afraid to be killed, and we need to pray for them not to fear.  We also need to pray against Somali young men killing X -Muslims and other people in the west.  The hosts of this channel expose the deception of Islam and preach the good news of Jesus, because that is how they came to Christ.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi interviews Shino and Shania, the hosts of Somali Christian TV.  They are Ex Muslims who are reaching out to their fellow Somali people with the message of the good news of salvation.  They are under attack online from Somali Muslims and other Muslims who do not like their message, and also receive death threats, so they keep moving from place to place.  Al Fadi encourage Christians to support, subscribe to their U -Tube channel, and listen to their videos and liking it.  They are seeing fruit of mainly  Somali youth  coming to the Lord. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi continues last weeks discussion by talking about three main challenges in producing his videos: 1. Raising money . 2. Finding the right topic. 3. The content; finding meaningful topics.  Some of the topics of the Arabic videos that he did are: fear, loneliness, having the peace of Christ , and our identity in Christ.  He also mentions that he is going to do more videos on : 1. the books of the Bible. 2. Shades of Christ(typology) with Sam Shamoun.  3. Series on covenants and the Jewish festivals.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi focuses on how he started his you tube channel; cirainternational.com in March 2016. He gives glory to God and thanks all supporters and team.  The purpose of the channel is to reach Muslims for Christ especially in unreached area.  He encourages people to pray for Muslims and share the videos with others.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"2021 was the most successful year ever", Al Fadi says.  Here is a summary: 1. Launched Arabic media work and videos.  2. Recorded more than 75 Arabic and 120 English videos.  3. Sixty people accepted Christ from Yemen.  4. Partnered with a second satellite ministry.  5.  Launched an every other week Bible study to disciple new believers from Muslim countries.  6. A church on line called the kings church.  On utube.com/c/thekingschurch.  7. A project of translating the scripture into the Saudi dialect.  8. Journey through the Bible. 9. Concluded an online conference. 10. Reached 100K subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi reads Luke 2 :4-19, the narrative of the birth of Jesus.  He compares it to what he used to think Christmas was before he became Christian.  The angels announced the birth of the Savior of the world which fulfilled many old testament prophecies, ie Isaiah 9:6-7.  The greatest gift of all was God giving us Jesus to save us from our sins and so we can have peace with God and others. Until Jesus's second coming we need to tell the story of Christmas and seek to reach the lost.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi, Mel and Jay Smith continue their discussion about the original site of Al Masjid Al Haram.  They conclude that it was originally in Jerusalem and later another building was built in what we know as Mecca in Hijaz of Saudi Arabia today.  One reason they point out is Mecca of today was not around until the 8th century.  For more details on this subject you can go to Cirainternational u-tube channel and look for  "Where was the real Masjid Al Haram"? dated on 6/17/21.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel and Al are discussing if the original site of Al Masjed AL Haram  was in Mecca of today or was it in Jerusalem. They say that Mecca did not exist in the 8th century. They also say that the Jews had three feast that they referred to as Haj to the Temple Mount. Mount Moriah is the site of the Temple Mount where Abraham was going to offer his son as a sacrifice. They think that the word Marwa is taken from the word Moriah.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al and Joel discuss the Islamic end times, in particular the person of the antichrist which Muslim call Al-Dajjal.  Joel wrote a book called: "The Islamic Antichrist".  Who is this person in the eyes of Muslims?  He is the great deceiver, he is blind in one eye, he has the word kafir written on his forehead just to name a few.  They also think that he can deceive any Muslim and the way to protect themselves against him is to memorize a certain chapter of the Quran and were a special necklace. Some modern day Muslim teachers say that he will be followed by; Zionist Jews, Trinitarian Christian, and women and that is how they will recognize him.  It is sad to see how Muslims have been taught to think that the antichrist is the Christian coming Messiah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to Islam Djinn (Ginn) ;also known as genies are not human, but spirits that have a free will to believe or not. Muslims are afraid of them and a lot of them have violent encounter with them.  The Quran mentions Djinn in Sura 72, It says that they are different than angels.  Christians believe that they are demons and we have the power to pray and set people free from that.  Missionaries do that in Middle Eastern countries.  The Gospel has the power to set people free. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi, Mel and Jay Smith continue their discussion about the original site of Al Masjid Al Haram.  They conclude that it was originally in Jerusalem and later another building was built in what we know as Mecca in Hijaz of Saudi Arabia today.  One reason they point out is Mecca of today was not around until the 8th century.  For more details on this subject you can go to Cirainternational u-tube channel and look for  "Where was the real Masjid Al Haram"? dated on 6/17/21.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel and Al are discussing if the original site of Al Masjed AL Haram  was in Mecca of today or was it in Jerusalem. They say that Mecca did not exist in the 8th century. They also say that the Jews had three feast that they referred to as Haj to the Temple Mount. Mount Moriah is the site of the Temple Mount where Abraham was going to offer his son as a sacrifice. They think that the word Marwa is taken from the word Moriah.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al and Joel discuss the Islamic end times, in particular the person of the antichrist which Muslim call Al-Dajjal.  Joel wrote a book called: "The Islamic Antichrist".  Who is this person in the eyes of Muslims?  He is the great deceiver, he is blind in one eye, he has the word kafir written on his forehead just to name a few.  They also think that he can deceive any Muslim and the way to protect themselves against him is to memorize a certain chapter of the Quran and were a special necklace. Some modern day Muslim teachers say that he will be followed by; Zionist Jews, Trinitarian Christian, and women and that is how they will recognize him.  It is sad to see how Muslims have been taught to think that the antichrist is the Christian coming Messiah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to Islam Djinn (Ginn) ;also known as genies are not human, but spirits that have a free will to believe or not. Muslims are afraid of them and a lot of them have violent encounter with them.  The Quran mentions Djinn in Sura 72, It says that they are different than angels.  Christians believe that they are demons and we have the power to pray and set people free from that.  Missionaries do that in Middle Eastern countries.  The Gospel has the power to set people free. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi talks about the different improvements that happened in the past months from remodeling the studio, having amazing guest speakers, the King's church online in Arabic, the Q&A show by Al Fadi, another show on textual criticism of the Quranic manuscripts, and publishing the new Arabic videos on a new Facebook page called" Nahj Al sabeel', نهج السبيل. He also mentions two more Facebook pages: one is cirainternational.com in Arabic قناة السيرة الدولية and his personal FB; Alfadi.cira. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi talks with Brother Mel who tries to decide if the story of Mohammad is historical or fictional by comparing it with the fictional story of "The Lord of the Rings".  Using twelve points of comparison from the call to adventure, the supreme ordeal,...., and finally the road back or the heroes return.  Mel concludes that Mohammad's story is fictional.  Listen to learn the details of the story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jay Smith asks Al Fadi ;who is a native of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, about what Muslims believe about Jeddah and what historians today believe.  Muslims believe that Jeddah existed around 400 BC while historians discovered that it did not exist before the eighth century as a port to serve Mecca.  They also discuss what Muslims do in Mecca, the black stone, its significance, why people try to touch and kiss it, and how all this are idolatry.  Jay and Al are doing a series on Jay's channel (PfanderFilms) to debunk the myth of the black stone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Jay Smith are challenging the Islamic traditional view which says that Mecca is where Islam started, Medina is where Mohammad migrated, and that the Quran was revealed during his time in both Mecca and Medina.  Also that the Quran was collected as a book  after the death of Mohammad by Abu Bakr and later by Othman in 652-654 AD.  Jay and Al ask the following questions:  Who is Mohammad? Did he really exist? And what do we know about Mecca? By doing so the are doing a historical critique of Islam.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and David continue their discussion about Ramadan and how it is feasting rather than fasting ; how it is not good for health, and that the purpose is to feel good about self and to be noticed by others; the opposite of what Jesus taught in Matthew 6.  They also mention that violence in the name of Allah increases during the month of Ramadan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.