Saturday, March 26, 2011

Yusuf Estes: His Encounter With This Pumpkin

Allah
"Miracles" or Misguidance?
by Sheik Yusuf Estes
Read the true story of
"Lies On a Pumpkin?
"

Bismillah Rahman Raheem
This was written by Sheik Yusuf Estes while he was in Cairo, Egypt in July of 2001.
Al Hamdulilah Rabbil Alameen Was salat was salam ala Rasool al Kareem Maa ba'd:
Salam Alaykum Wa Rahmatulah:
Something just happened to cause me to sit down and tell a story that I have kept to myself for a long time. This is really a BIG TEST (ibtala') for me to write about this subject. What I'm about to tell you is strange and I know some of you are going to think "Ol Sheik Yusuf finally went off to 'Goofee Land'."
There is something that I am going to share with you and mention in reference to this subject that I have kept quiet about since leaving being a preacher to come to Islam. I don't blame you if you laugh. At at least read this, but please, dear reader pay attention to the warning coming up...
How could Sheik Yusuf ever endorse 'miracles' or 'karamat'?
After all, who is the one that has been attacking the brothers and sisters (hopefully in a kind a respectful manner) regarding putting the fake pictures on the Internet and the stories of weird occurrences in nature which people claim bring them to believe in Allah?
Me.
I am the very same person who only two years ago went on record as debunking the "Shahadah in the Forest" picture and the "Tree in Ruku'ah Facing Qiblah" picture, and the "Fish with Allahu Akbar on His Side" picture, as well as many others.
This goes back to my days of debunking the old fairy tales and lies in the Christian church which we heard from infancy onward. We were told in that if you look down from above on the back of a burro (small donkey) you will see a brown stripe running from his neck to his tail and across his front shoulder is another brown line which forms a 'cross'. Well sure enough some burros do have this type of marking. If you get up high over the donkey and look down and use your imagination a little you will see a brown line intersecting another brown line to form a 'x' or a 'cross' right across his shoulders.
So what?
Well we were told that before Jesus was born, no donkeys ever had this. (What is the evidence for such a statement?). 
Then the story begins:
A donkey carried Mary to Bethlehem while she was pregnant with Jesus and was present in the manager when Jesus was born. (Again, any proof?).
A donkey carried Jesus into the city on Palm Sunday (this is in all the gospels in the Bible). So, for all his carrying of Jesus, the donkey gets to carry the 'cross' on his back as an honor for his service.
So we should all wear a cross with honor and pride. And now today, how many would be happy to wear a cross hanging from their ears, nose, eyebrows, tummy, and tattoo a cross in places which I won't mention?
My reason for being against these types of so called 'miracles' is that it has no basis in true belief. I lived all over Texas and Mexico for over 50 years and watched so much superstition over these same types of things that it made me sick of it all. People would claim that they had a tree which would "cry" at Easter time or a statue of the Virgin Mary would "weep" tears.
One case a few years back in San Antonio, I recall a window in the front of a home which would show some kind of "crucifixion" or something at a certain time of the night. People would come from all over filling the street and jamming the front yard and falling on their knees praying and crying. People were claiming to be 'healed' of sicknesses and cancer, etc. It was in the newspapers and made quite a sensation -- for a while. But then, after a while the light thing stopped, things went back to usual and people went back to their routine lives of lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, drugs, violence.
Then there is the story that Jimmy Swaggart related in the debate between he and Ahmad Deedat back over 10 years ago in Louisiana. (By the way, I personally hate these debates and I only do dialogs with the Christian preachers to offer better understandings of Islam -- and by the way, we do give a number of Shahadahs at these events. Sometimes even to the leaders of the church). Anyway, at the end of the debate Jimmy Swaggart did a real sneaky trick used by preachers all the time to try to 'prove their point.'
He told a story without any proof or reference what ever.
He said:
"You know, Mr. Deedat, I had a dream the other night. And in that dream, I believe that I heard the voice of God. I think that was God talking to me. And if it was God talking to me, he was telling me; 'You go tell Mr. Deedat and all his Mozlems (I hate the way Jimmy Swaggart says 'Mozlems') You go tell Mr. Deedat and all his Mozlems friends that Jesus loves him and Jesus loves them too. And if they'll just come to him in the precious name of Jesus, why, he'll accept them and love them and he'll forgive them." (This is as close as I remember the actual video tape)
Then Swaggart went on to tell a another story:
He said that he had heard about someone in Europe or England that was thinking about becoming a Muslim. But he goes on to tell us that: 
"This person was had a friend who was very ill and dying in the hospital. So he though he would test if Islam was right. And so he prayed in the 'name of Mohammed' for them to get well, but the person didn't get well. So he prayed in the 'Precious Name of Jesus' and the person got well and was cured of the sickness.
And on this statement he based his conclusion for the debate: "Is the Bible the Word of God?"
And by the way, when I was a prison chaplain in Texas, I found that the ministries in the prisons there are using the same video tape of Ahmad Deedat and Jimmy Swaggart to call people to 'Jesus.' They all conclude as Mr. Swaggart did, that the only thing that matters is if you get what you want from your prayers.
To believe that someone or something has power with Allah or in place of Allah or a connection with Allah is 'shirk' (making partners with Allah, may Allah save us from this). Allah says that He does not forgive that anyone set up partners with Him in worship, but anything less than that He can forgive.
This is perhaps the biggest test of all. It is not so much that a person believe that there is Allah. After all, every religion out there claims to believe in God of some kind. Every religion teaches to pray to their gods. Some teach that there is only one god, and that they have pray to god through some other god or some 'icon' which represents or reminds them of god, or it acts as an intercessor between them and god.
And some of these prayers to their 'gods' are answered. After all, if they didn't get what they wanted at least once in a while they would not continue to believe in their false gods would they?
But who is really the One the ultimately answers their prayers? Who really gives them what they ask for? Who gives them life? Who heals them? Who provides for them? Who is the Only One do all Praise? -- Of course, it is only Almighty Allah.
The point of the matter is to see how they treat and respect Allah. The real test is:
Will we worship Allah, alone, on His terms, conditions and follow His commandments?
That process is called:
ISLAM
(Surrender, Submission, Obedience, Purity of Intention, Peace)
My point is that these kinds of things seem to me to be more of a test of character than a proof of God's existence. Only those who already believe would come out and get excited. The non-believers just stand back and watch "those crazy fools making idiots of themselves."
I have seen people claim miracles in the "Name of the Father"; and in the "Precious Name of Jesus"; and in the "Name of the Holy Spirit." So, now what I am about to say... well, just read it for yourself and judge.
[Written in Cairo, Egypt in July 2001]
NOTE and a word of CAUTION: The story you are about to read it 100% true and I am one of several of the witnesses. Today, inshallah, I plan to film and photograph the specimen about to be described, and begin serious investigation into the background and history of how this has come about.
[Since then we have filmed and photographed the specimen. Pictures are available on request at:
sheikyusuf@aol.com
CAUTION: However, there are two things that I want to stress to you:
* This could be some kind of artificially induced growth on the surface or a reaction to a chemical which was artificially induced (in other words someone may have designed this with a process we have not discovered - yet).
* Even if it is absolutely, positively without manufactured stimulation, it is not to be used to call people to Islam. It would only be considered a source of increased belief for those who are already believers in Islam.
Presently I am in Cairo Egypt, preparing for a visit to a rural area where a strange event just took place. 
 About two days ago, the brother of Ahmad Mousa, my host here in Cairo, was visiting a farm about an hour's drive out of Cairo and he found something very weird. He says that twenty days prior a farmer pulled a gourd shaped pumpkin out of the ground that was facing a different direction than the others, in a strange way. It appeared to have a strange formation of Arabic style letters written across its length. So he obtained it and brought for his brother (my friend Ahmad) to investigate. Subsequently, Ahmad brought it to me a few nights ago. We were with Dr. Fatih Algayreb standing at the trunk of Ahamd's car wondering we would see. As we stood there at the back of his car staring down under the street lamp at the huge vegetation on top of his trunk of his car, I froze. If I had not seen it with my own eyes and held it in my own hands, I would not have believed it. An elongated pumpkin about the size of a very large football had wart like bumps standing out in relief "raised letters" in Arabic, very clearly spelling:
'Bismillah Ar Rahman'
(In the Name of Allah, The Most Merciful). It appeared to be in the old Kuftic script (original Arabic style no longer popular). Then over the center of it were the words:

'Ar Raheem'

I was so shocked that I almost dropped it when I realized what it said. What can I say? I held it. I touched it. I felt it over and over. It was real.
At least it was a 'real pumpkin.' - But was the writing really a 'miracle?" Maybe not...

[This is a REAL Pumpkin - But is the Arabic writing FAKE?]
To the right of the words 'Ar Raheem' was a black formation which appeared that if it had been left to grow, the word 'Mohammed' verily likely would have been displayed right along with it.
So, now the question is: "What if it had been proven to be a natural phenomenon? What if it was real?" Then what would that mean?
Thanks only to Allah that He guided all of us to think and consider the most important points of Tawheed of Islam (monotheism).
Dr. Fatih Al Ghareeb and our beloved brother Ahmad Mousa were not fooled by this trick on a pumpkin. Not at all. They immediately were suspicious and together we all began investigating this subject. Sheik Mahdi from Al Azhar University was called in and he made a television program with us on Today Islam in which he confirmed that although these types of things appear from time to time, they are not the signs that prove to the believers the existance of Allah. 
Upon closer examination the truth began to come to light. If you could look at all the other miracles from Allah which He has clearly explained in His Book the Holy Quran, and still need a pumpkin with warts to decide if it is all real, then your faith wasn't much to start with.
Don't we see bigger miracles than this everyday? Who created all of the things which we take for granted everyday? Where did we come from? How is the universe in such a splendid order? Where did the heavens and earth come from? Who sends down the rain? Who grows up a pumpkin from a mere seed?
Al Rahman -- (The Merciful)
These are the ture "miracles" and "signs" of Allah. 
Let us ask a few logical questions here about so-called 'miracles':
How would it be if you found a giant watermelon tomorrow and it had seeds in it spelling out "Jesus is King of the Jews" in Latin?
Would you want to be a Christian? And would you stop eating the 'sacred melon'?
Or what if you discover a rock with "Michael Jackson" spelled in Hindi language?
Would you become a Michael Jackson fan or a Hindu? (or both?)
Or how about a pizza that the cheese toppings spell out "IslamTomorrow.com" ??
(I like this one...)
This would all certainly be most strange and bizarre, but would it cause anyone to change their belief?
No. It would only increase the faith of the believers and increase the disbelief of the disbelievers. 
Now, let us take a closer look at this so called "Miracle."


Notice the exact drawing on the pumpkin.
This was the path the artist had intended the growth to follow.
[click picture to return back]

Source: Islam Tomorrow   

32 comments:

Ibu said...

Salam Ummie
' Even it is absolutely, positively without manufactured stimulation .......... already believers in Islam.'

Like the standing sejadah. It's either your iman strengthen or jadi shirik (kecil?). Seriously, are we that pathetic to understand His favours that a sejadah has to go against the law of gravity ? Hah the Shaitan the Accursed is laughing.

Quran is the only living miracle left by our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
The good thing we'll be 'prepared & desensitize' when the day Dajjal will come n perform more fantastic miracles by Allah's will & the Al-Quran will be lost & forgotten.

May we all die in Faith. Faith being - There is no god but God and Muhammad is His messenger. Ameen.

Ummie said...

Absolutely right.
Well said, Ms Ibu.
Wassalam.

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