lementation of the Sharia.
Because even Moses was not able to use that as a scale to judge the truthfulness of the righteous servant. So therefore we are only left with the will and the law of knowing the proof of God or the messenger of God as a way to be saved, and to remain upon the Ark of Salvation, and to not be led astray.
Once we find the proof, the person who fulfills this criteria, we have a divine obligation to stick with them no matter what. And we can never doubt in that individual after that. And the proof of this comes in the stories of the Prophets and the Messengers.
God is consistently warning us in their stories to never judge the Prophet or the Messenger by any other means other than the law. So in the story of Noah, Noah had fulfilled the criteria. Noah was a prophet that was prophesied by Adam.
Adam and the prophets leading up to Noah had spoken about the coming of a savior who would come at the time where God would destroy earth through a flood. And the believers were well aware of this character to be born whose name was Noah. When Noah arrived, he claimed to be that promised savior.
And he demonstrated knowledge and he called towards the supremacy of God. And that people should accept the divinely appointed messenger, who was Noah, and reject the sons of Cain. Who were controlling all of the earth at the time.
Noah gathered believers, he started his Dawa and people began to believe in him. And one day Noah, after suffering many years of oppression and violence, him and his followers, they were attacked consistently by the sons of Cain.
Narrations mention that at times they would be attacked with stones. Noah was several times knocked upside the head, unconscious for several days, laying on the ground with blood flowing from his ears. The believers needed a relief.
And they prayed to Noah to ask God for the hastening of the punishment. Well finally, after Noah called on God, God sent Gabriel down to tell Noah, to tell his followers, that when he plants this palm tree seed, and it grows to be a tree, the relief would happen.
And so he informs his believers and the believers are ecstatic. They're filled with the spirit of faith and they're excited. They are working night and day extra hard and they have full certitude in the promise of God that once this little plant becomes a palm tree, the relief is going to happen.
On the day that the palm tree was a full-grown one, they waited and waited and waited and nothing happened. And they looked towards each other. And then they finally mustered up enough courage to go and ask Noah, whose response to them was actually : 'I don't know. I'm going to call upon God and find out.' Noah calls upon God.
Gabriel comes down and tells Noah, 'Noah, take this new seed and plant it in the ground.' 'And when it becomes a full-grown tree, that is when the relief will happen.' So Noah goes back ; he tells his companions what Gabriel just told them.
And they are utterly shocked and in a state of confusion. And instantly his companions, his congregation, breaks down into three groups. A group that disbelieves. And they say, 'If Noah was a true prophet, if Noah was really speaking to God, then God's words are never changed.' 'And the flood should have happened, and we should have been saved. But the fact that it didn't happen means that he's a false prophet.' The second group of people are in a state of doubt. And the first group of people remained full of faith.
They said, 'You know what ? Even if God's promise changed, even if the flood was cancelled altogether, it doesn't matter.' 'Because we are with the companion of the Will. He's the one that was appointed by God.' So those are the people that were saved. As for the ones that disbelieved, they went into Hellfire, because they fell in a test whereby they used a different method to evaluate whether or not Noah was truthful or untruthful.
They disregarded the Will, they disregarded the knowledge, they disregarded the supremacy of God, and they focused on the promise. And it was there that they were tested and sifted, and it was there that they fell. And the moral of that lesson was that you cannot judge the messenger or the vice-regent by anything other than the law of knowing or identifying the proof of God, even if the promise is not fulfilled in the way that you expect it to be fulfilled.
Imran was a prophet. He was the grandfather of Jesus and the father of Mary. He was a prophet who had a congregation. He told his congregation that God inspired him, telling him that he was going to give birth to the Messiah, the promised savior of the Jews.
And he was ecstatic about it. And the Israelite believers in him were ecstatic about it. They thought the relief was near. They had certitude in Imran, the great prophet. And yet when his wife gave birth, she gave birth to the surprise of everybody, to a baby girl.
Even Imran himself was [shocked]. And it was that baby girl, whom he named Mary, who would grow up and give birth to Jesus the Messiah. And so God's promise was fulfilled, but just not in the way that they expected. It was not in his son, but rather his grandson.
And that's why the hadith from the Ahlulbayt says, 'If we say something about a man and it isn't in him, but rather it is in his son or his son's son, then don't deny it.' God's promises can be fulfilled in ways other than the expectations of the people.
And so there was another lesson in the Quran which taught us that there is no other way to identify the proof of God except through the law. Then we come to the story of Jesus, which is one of the most difficult trials and tribulations and fitnas that any group of believers had ever gone through.
And that is that Jesus comes forward with his ministry at the age of 30. He claims to be the Jewish Messiah. He performs all kinds of miracles. He demonstrates knowledge. He claims the will. He calls towards the supremacy of God. He's rebelling against the rulers and the scholars and the rabbis who are not appointed by God. And he calls towards the rulership of God. God's land.
The Jews had long expected and waited for this Messiah, whom the narrations of their prophets and the words of the prophets and the messengers and the vicegerents stated that he would rule from Jerusalem and spread peace and justice all over the world.
And yet three years into the Daua of Jesus, Jesus is arrested. His body is crucified. He's killed in the apparent, in front of all of his believers and in front of the Israelites. The Israelites took it as a sign that God was saying that Jesus was a false prophet, because he did not fulfill anything from what they expected the Messiah to do, of conquering and ruling.
And so they took his death as a way of identifying whether or not Jesus was truthful or not truthful. They took his inability to rule and establish a divine just state as a sign of him being false. The main thing is that the Quran is a book of verses that are not written in Arabic. And yet as you and I know, and 2 billion Christians around the world and 1 billion Muslims, Jesus is the Messiah, was the Messiah, and remains the Messiah that was sent to the Jews.
And so you see there how incredibly dangerous it is to judge the prophet or the messenger by our own expectations. And how using anything, even the fulfillment of prophecies, as a way of identifying whether the person was truthful or not truthful, is a false way.
Even all of Jesus' miracles that he performed were not sufficient as a way to make the people know whether or not he was truthful or not truthful. And after knowing where the truth is, no matter how hard or scary the path becomes after that, it's irrelevant.
As long as we just hold on tight to it, then we are saved.
