For Lloyd's complete archives, go here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiyIXknJOnGXmnYB3UrXaHQ/community?lb=UgkxzjLOQlFjElsEXyuW-XrsAnXW9g70palt In this episode, Lloyd helps us understand that Islam is not necessarily a religion as we in the West define it (i.e. man in relationship with God), but a political system with the intent of completely subjugating its subjects, as well as those who are not adherents of Islam at all. Shariah Law (plural = 'Shara'i), he maintains is a "clearly defined way", with Muhammad as the model for the rules and regulations which are required for the believers to follow. Lloyd continues that there are 2 aspects of Shariah regulations: 1) Ibadat = the duty or obedience a believer has to Allah, which is worked out in the 5 'pillars of Islam'. 2) Mu'amalat = the duty of human relations. These duties of the believer are carried out in complete submission to Allah, much as a slave to his master, so that Islam amalgamates the moral, civil and ceremonial law together as one entity. Salvation, according to Lloyd, then comes through following these rules which are laid out in Shariah. The Deen (i.e. the practices) is a sociopolitical system used to compete against and replace any other political system, which today would be the West. This is because Muslims perceive that Islam is a superior political system created by Allah himself, and thus naturally should supersede any other system in existence, because they are merely made by men. Lloyd points to the 4 meanings of Deen: 1) Subjugation and Dominance, which allows force to be used in its implementation if need be. 2) Obedience and Bondage of others, especially those who are not Muslims. 3) Rules and Regulations, which are the doctrines of Islam 4) Rewards and Payments, which one can receive in this life. So the Deen of Islam is a political System, or ideology, and not necessarily a religion. Yet, we in the West are completely unaware of this aspect of Islam as we assume it is just another religion like our own. To show just how much it is a political system, Lloyd looks at the 12 criteria afforded by Muslims which make up their Deen, in order of importance: 1) Ownership, 2) Government, 3) Administration, 4) Legislative Authority, 5) Subordination 6) Dominance, 7) Doctrine, 8) Ideology, 9) Tradition, 10) Religion, 11) Justice, and 12) Accountability. Note that religion is way down in 10th place, and the other criteria which we would categorize as important to religion, doctrine and ideology, are in 7th and 8th place. This suggests that religion as we know it is not that important to Islam, which considers the more political criteria a lot more important, proving it really is a political system, and the quicker we understand it as such, the easier it will be for us to understand it and confront it. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2022 (66,540) Music: "Epic Heroic Conquest" by Musiclfiles, from filmmusic-io ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWNi9D5i5o

It is clear that all Muslims everywhere for the past 1300 years (note: not 1400 years) have believed that the Qur'an is completely preserved from any corruption, deletion, or any changes. Why, because the Qur'an stipulates that no one can change the 'Word of God' (Surahs 10:15, and 18:27), and that Allah will preserve and guard the Qur'an (Surah 15:9). And this has also been the same narrative for two of the world's leading Muslim Scholars, Dr Shabir Ally and Dr Yasir Qadhi for as long as they have been teaching...until these past two months. Yasir Qadhi has said numerous times that the Qur'an is the same today..."word for word, and letter for letter" as the Qur'an from the time of Muhammad and Uthman. Shabir Ally has always maintained that the oldest Qur'anic manuscripts are exactly the same as the Hafs text which we use today. Now, however, both scholars seem to be changing their narratives. They have both admitted within the past few weeks that there are variants in the Qur'an, and that the Qur'an used in North Africa has words and letters which are different from the Hafs Qur'an. Dr Ally admitted in an interview which was just posted yesterday (July 7th) that there were different synonyms used in different dialectical Qur'ans, that the word order was changed in certain Qur'ans, and that different writings, even additions to the text can be found in the earliest manuscripts. His only caveat was that these different words, letters, writings and additions didn't change any doctrines, beliefs or practices. Even his daughter, Dr Saffiyah asked him how convincing his arguments were? To which he replied that they were for Muslims, but possibly not for secular scholars, which is certainly very true. In the 24 years that I've known and engaged with Dr Ally, I've never heard him say what he is saying today. Indeed, it seems that he and Dr Qadhi are now changing the goalposts concerning just how preserved and guarded their Qur'an really is. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2020 (34,180) (Music: "small adventure", by Rafael Krux (from filmmusic-io - License CC BY) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVKcfHpoIQ