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00:00Have you ever thought about this?
00:02Why does Allah specifically warn us about Baal, a name mentioned in the Quran?
00:08Today, some of the most powerful people in the world, elites, businessmen, gather every year in private meetings,
00:16deep in forests, away from cameras, rituals, symbols, strange ceremonies, sometimes associated with Baal.
00:26So the question appears, is Baal still being worshipped?
00:32Thousands of years ago, people burned their most valuable possessions, their children, to please this false god.
00:41Because some believed that wars were won in his name, and that power and systems were connected to him,
00:47and even today, there are people who believe this.
00:51But Allah gave a heavy lesson in history to those who believed like this.
00:56Maybe another one will come, and we may witness it.
01:00This is the mysterious and dangerous story of Baal, from the past to today.
01:24If you are ready, let's begin.
01:30Around 2300 BC, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, while humanity was building its first great civilizations,
01:39people who looked at the sky noticed something.
01:42If there was no rain, there was no life.
01:45Because of this, the uncontrollable forces of nature, especially storms and rain,
01:52turned into a divine power in the eyes of people.
01:56At this point, one being appeared, Hadad.
02:00Hadad was the lord of thunder, lightning, and rain.
02:04But in Mesopotamia, he was not a central god, because life there depended on rivers, not on rain.
02:11But this would change as it moved west.
02:14The fate of Hadad completely changed when it reached the lands of the Levant.
02:20The regions of today's Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine were different from river civilizations.
02:26Here, agriculture depended completely on rain from the sky.
02:30If rain did not come, hunger came.
02:33If storms did not come, death came.
02:36And at this point, Hadad was no longer a small god.
02:39He became life itself.
02:41People were afraid of drought, of hunger, of losing control, and fear-shaped belief.
02:47Hadad was no longer just a force of nature.
02:50He was given a title, Baal, Master, Lord, Owner.
02:55At the beginning, this was just a title.
02:57But over time, this title replaced the identity.
03:00The name of Hadad began to be forgotten, and only one thing remained, Baal.
03:06This transformation was not ordinary, because now people were not worshipping just a god.
03:12They were worshipping a power they believed controlled everything.
03:16Rain was in his hands.
03:18Blessing was in his hands.
03:20Life was in his hands.
03:22In the Ugarit tablets and ancient inscriptions, Baal is described as a being who rules the sky,
03:31controls lightning, and gives life to the earth.
03:34In some stories, he is even described as a power that fights against death.
03:39But here is the critical point.
03:41People did not worship Baal because they were stupid.
03:45They worshipped because they were afraid.
03:47As the Quran points out, the issue was not a statue.
03:52The issue was a dependence that turned away from Allah.
03:57And so, Hadad, who was once a small storm god, slowly turned into a title.
04:04Then that title became an identity.
04:06Then that identity became a religion.
04:09And in the end, one of the most powerful idols in history.
04:13But this was only the beginning.
04:16Because Baal was no longer just a belief.
04:18It was a system.
04:20And this system was moving towards something much darker.
04:24Child sacrifices and tophet.
04:26The darkest ritual in history.
04:29Imagine a city square thousands of years ago.
04:32In front of thousands of people, there is a giant bronze statue.
04:37Its height reaches 1520 meters.
04:39Its face is human, but it has large horns on its head.
04:44Its arms are stretched forward.
04:47Its hands open and tilted downward.
04:49In the center of the statue, there is a hollow chamber.
04:53And inside that chamber, there is fire.
04:56People stand in lines.
04:58Drums are beating.
05:00Horns are sounding.
05:01Incense is rising.
05:03The crowd is shaking, moving, shouting.
05:06Priests are singing.
05:06And a mother places her baby into the open hands of the statue.
05:11The baby slides down the sloped hands and falls into the fire pit below.
05:16The mother is not allowed to cry.
05:19This is not fiction.
05:21It is a reality mentioned many times in ancient sources,
05:25archaeological findings, and in many verses of the Bible.
05:30Tophet, in Hebrew, this word is the name given to the sacred place in the valley of Ben Hinnom,
05:36south of Jerusalem, where children were burned in fire.
05:40But this practice was not limited to Israel.
05:43Archaeologists have found many Tophet remains across the Mediterranean,
05:48in Carthage, in Tunisia, in Sardinia, in Sicily, and even in places close to Malta.
05:56In 1922, during excavations in Carthage,
06:00archaeologists found hundreds of small urns containing burned baby bones.
06:05Religious inscriptions were carved on them,
06:08dedicated to Baal Hamon, the writing said.
06:11In some urns, there were child remains together with small animal bones.
06:16In others, only children.
06:18In 1947, an excavation in Hadrumetum, modern-day Sousse, Tunisia,
06:24was even more shocking, a six-layer burial complex.
06:28The remains of children burned together with animals.
06:31Researchers concluded that the sacrifice ritual continued without interruption
06:36for about 800 years.
06:39800 years.
06:42The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus described this ritual in the first century.
06:48There was a bronze statue with hands stretched out and tilted downward.
06:52Every child placed on it rolled down into a pit filled with fire.
06:57The Roman writer Plutarch wrote,
06:59Families without children would buy the babies of the poor
07:02and sacrifice them like lambs or chickens.
07:05The mothers would stand there without shedding a single tear or making a sound.
07:11If they cried, they would lose the payment,
07:14and the child would still be sacrificed.
07:17During all this, drums were beaten and horns were sounded,
07:21so that the screams would not be heard.
07:24The Christian source Tertullian wrote in the 2nd century AD,
07:28In Africa, until the time of the governorship of Tiberius,
07:33children were openly sacrificed to Saturn,
07:36the Baal of the Phoenicians,
07:37and this terrible tradition continued in secret.
07:42Next to Baal, sometimes identified with him
07:45and sometimes mentioned as a separate being,
07:48there was another name,
07:49Moloch.
07:51Moloch was a figure in Semitic traditions
07:54associated with human sacrifice,
07:56especially child sacrifice.
07:59In the Bible, Leviticus 18.21 says,
08:03Do not give any of your children to be passed through the fire to Moloch.
08:07And Jeremiah 7.31 says,
08:10They built the high places in the valley of Ben-Hinnom
08:13to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,
08:16something I did not command,
08:18nor did it come into my mind.
08:19The Quran also speaks about this.
08:23In Surah Al-An'am, verse 137, it says,
08:27And in the same way,
08:28their partners made the killing of their children
08:30seem appealing to many of the polytheists,
08:33so they would destroy them and confuse their religion.
08:37Allah describes this ritual not just as human deviation,
08:41but as one of the deepest traps of shaitan.
08:44Why, children?
08:45So why did people sacrifice their most valuable beings,
08:49their own children?
08:51Sources explain it like this.
08:53It was believed that the most valuable offering given to Baal
08:57would bring the greatest blessing.
08:59As drought continued,
09:01as disease spread,
09:02as war approached,
09:04the sacrifice given to calm the anger of the god
09:07became greater,
09:08first an animal,
09:10then a human,
09:11then a young person,
09:12and finally,
09:13the most valuable,
09:14their own child.
09:17Even the rule that a mother was not allowed to cry
09:20was not random,
09:21because the validity of the ritual
09:23depended on the sacrifice being given willingly.
09:27Tears would not satisfy the god.
09:30The Prophet Muhammad SAW said,
09:34Whoever kills a child,
09:36Allah will close the gates of paradise for him.
09:39Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad.
09:42This hadith shows in one sentence
09:45the true weight of what was done in that dark time.
09:48These societies,
09:50rich, powerful,
09:51and living in abundance,
09:52were performing these child sacrifices at night.
09:56Today,
09:56you will see the elites who follow them.
09:59But first,
10:00let us look at how these rituals and acts of worship
10:03spread to other lands.
10:05Phoenician traders appear in history
10:08as the ones who carried Baal to the world.
10:11In history,
10:12a belief was sometimes spread by the sword,
10:15and sometimes by ships and trade.
10:18The Phoenicians were one of the greatest seafaring nations in history.
10:22They lived on the coasts of Syria and Lebanon,
10:24in cities such as Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos.
10:28Between 1200 BC and 800 BC,
10:32they spread across the entire Mediterranean.
10:34They traded silver, ivory, glass, and purple dye.
10:38But what they carried was not only goods,
10:41they also carried Baal.
10:43Wherever the Phoenicians went,
10:45they built a port,
10:46a market,
10:47and a temple.
10:48In southern Spain,
10:50they founded the city of Gadir,
10:51modern-day Cadiz,
10:53and built a temple for Baal there.
10:55In North Africa,
10:56they founded Carthage,
10:58and declared Baal-Haman as the chief god.
11:01In Sardinia,
11:02Sicily,
11:03and Malta,
11:04tophets appeared.
11:05In Crete and Cyprus,
11:07statues of Baal were found.
11:09Researcher John Dennison Baldwin
11:11argued that the figure of Balder
11:13in Norse mythology
11:14and the god Bel in Celtic traditions
11:17are directly connected
11:19to the geographical spread
11:20of the Phoenician Baal.
11:23The Beltane fires burned in the British Isles
11:26are considered remnants of spring rituals
11:29dedicated to Baal.
11:31The word Beltane itself means
11:33the fire of Baal.
11:36In the north of Norway,
11:37fires lit under the midnight sun
11:40may have come from Phoenician influence.
11:42Symbols found on a standing stone in Sweden,
11:46according to Baldwin,
11:47carried signs linked to Baal.
11:49The remains of Stonehenge in southern England
11:52are still a mystery
11:53that has not been fully explained,
11:55but some researchers point
11:57to a connection with Canaan.
11:59In Baal worship,
12:01sacred places were often built in open areas
12:04on high hills or rocky ground,
12:06features that match the location
12:08and structure of Stonehenge.
12:11Harry Mountain writes,
12:13The Phoenician religion revolved around Bel,
12:16that is, Baal, the sun god,
12:19and Astarta, the moon goddess.
12:21These two figures were at the center
12:24of Phoenician influence,
12:25carried into Western Europe.
12:28The Prophet Muhammad ï·º said,
12:32Shirk spreads more quietly
12:33than the footsteps of an ant under your shoe.
12:37Al-Hakim, Mustadraq,
12:39narrated with a weak chain,
12:41but its meaning is supported
12:42by authentic hadith.
12:44The spread of Baal across the Mediterranean
12:47was a historical reflection of this reality.
12:50Without people noticing,
12:52it slowly moved from one port city to another,
12:54from one continent to another,
12:57from one generation to another.
12:59And it reached the most critical region even earlier,
13:02the land of Canaan,
13:04the place where the children of Israel lived.
13:07The children of Israel
13:08were one of the most warned nations in history.
13:11Musa, a.s., was sent to them.
13:14The Torah was given to them.
13:16The right path was clearly shown to them.
13:19But even then,
13:20they turned back to Baal again and again.
13:22Then, Musa, a.s., left Egypt.
13:26The army of Pharaoh was drowned in the Red Sea.
13:29Miracles were seen with their own eyes.
13:32The existence of Allah
13:34was a clear and undeniable truth for that generation.
13:38And still, shortly after entering Canaan,
13:41they began to live closely with the Canaanite people.
13:45After some time,
13:46they were influenced by their beliefs
13:48and started to worship Baal.
13:50How was this even possible?
13:52Because the reality of life in that land was this.
13:55The land depended on rain.
13:58Rain depended on Baal.
14:00At least, that is what they believed.
14:02And because of this,
14:04Baal was not an ordinary idol.
14:06He was seen as a guarantee of life.
14:09Historically,
14:10some inscriptions show
14:11that the children of Israel
14:13at a certain time
14:14turned both to Allah
14:16and to other beings.
14:17This shows
14:18that pure Tawheed
14:20began to weaken.
14:22And in this process,
14:23Baal became the greatest rival.
14:25Because on the surface,
14:27there were some similarities
14:29between Baal and Allah.
14:31Both were connected to the sky.
14:33Both were seen as powerful.
14:35Both were linked to natural events.
14:37But the difference was this.
14:40Allah is the one
14:42and absolute creator.
14:45Baal was an idol
14:46born from human fear.
14:49In 1975,
14:51in the Sinai Desert
14:52in southern Israel,
14:54archaeologists found an inscription.
14:56This sentence carved into stone
14:59shocked researchers of the Bible.
15:01Yahweh and his Asherah.
15:03This meant that
15:05some of the children of Israel
15:06believed in Yahweh,
15:07Allah,
15:08but at the same time
15:09added the Canaanite goddess
15:11Asherah next to him.
15:12They were living two religions
15:14at the same time
15:15without seeing a contradiction.
15:17This inscription
15:18was not a coincidence.
15:19The text of the Bible itself
15:21tells that the children of Israel
15:23many times
15:24offered sacrifices
15:25both to Yahweh
15:26and to Baal together.
15:28To understand this,
15:29we need to think
15:30about an ordinary farmer
15:32living in Canaan
15:33around 900 B.C.
15:35This man harvested
15:37only once a year.
15:38His harvest depended
15:40completely on the winter rains.
15:42If rain did not come,
15:44the land dried.
15:45If the land dried,
15:47his children became hungry.
15:49If his children became hungry,
15:50he either had nothing left to sell
15:52or had to sell
15:53his youngest son.
15:55Yahweh was the national god
15:57of the children of Israel.
15:59He had laws,
16:00a covenant,
16:01and a temple.
16:03But the Phoenicians
16:04in the nearby village
16:05had been worshipping Baal
16:07for years,
16:07and their fields were green.
16:10Even in drought,
16:11they somehow survived.
16:12Maybe if I worship both,
16:14I will be safer.
16:15This thought came not from faith,
16:17but from fear.
16:18The Bible records
16:20this deviation many times.
16:22Judges 2.11 says,
16:23The children of Israel
16:25did what was evil
16:26in the sight of the Lord
16:27and served the Baals.
16:29The Quran presents this pattern
16:31as a wider truth.
16:33In Surah Al-Baqarah,
16:34verse 61,
16:35it tells how the children of Israel
16:37repeatedly forgot
16:39the blessings of Allah
16:40and turned to others.
16:41In Surah An-Nisa,
16:43verse 153,
16:45Allah says,
16:45They asked you
16:46to bring down a book
16:47from the sky.
16:48They asked Musa
16:49for something even greater
16:51and said,
16:51Show us Allah openly.
16:53So the thunderbolts
16:54struck them
16:55because of their wrongdoing.
16:57They saw miracles,
16:58yet they turned back.
17:00They were punished,
17:01yet they turned back.
17:02They faced hunger,
17:04yet they turned back.
17:05The Prophet Muhammad
17:06sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
17:09After me,
17:10some of my ummah
17:11will worship idols.
17:12The companions asked in surprise,
17:15O Messenger of Allah,
17:17will they associate partners
17:18with Allah?
17:19He said,
17:21Yes,
17:22but not to the sun,
17:23the moon,
17:24or stones.
17:25They will fast for others
17:27than Allah
17:27and sacrifice for others
17:29than Allah.
17:31Ibn Majah.
17:32The return of the children
17:34of Israel to Baal
17:35was not only their weakness.
17:37It was an ancient trap
17:39that humans fall into
17:40again and again,
17:42in every generation
17:43and in every land
17:44when they face fear and hunger.
17:47Queen Jezebel
17:48and the dark period
17:50of Israel.
17:51Some names
17:52do not only mark
17:53a person in history,
17:54but an entire era.
17:56Jezebel
17:57is one of them.
17:59In the 9th century BC,
18:01King Ahab
18:02was ruling
18:03the northern kingdom
18:04of Israel.
18:05He was strong,
18:06politically smart,
18:07and cared about alliances.
18:09One day,
18:10he married the daughter
18:11of Ithabal,
18:12the king of the powerful
18:14Phoenician city of Tyre.
18:16Her name was Jezebel.
18:17The name Jezebel
18:19has a debated meaning
18:21in Hebrew.
18:22But many scholars
18:23agree on this explanation.
18:25The name comes
18:26from a phrase
18:27in the Ugarit tablets,
18:29spoken by Anat
18:30while searching for Baal
18:31after his death.
18:33Where is Baal?
18:35Inside the name
18:36of a queen,
18:37there was a longing
18:38for that god.
18:39And Jezebel lived
18:41up to that name.
18:42When she came from Tyre,
18:43she did not come alone.
18:45She brought
18:45450 priests of Baal
18:48with her
18:48and 400 priests
18:50of Asherah.
18:51In the capital Samaria,
18:53she built a great temple
18:55for Baal.
18:56Altars of Baal
18:57were set up
18:58and Asherah poles
18:59were raised.
19:00Then,
19:00the prophets
19:01began to be killed.
19:03King Ahab
19:04was not a weak man,
19:05but he was not strong enough
19:06to stand against Jezebel.
19:08The worship of Baal
19:10was no longer
19:11just a religious issue.
19:12It became mixed
19:13with political power,
19:15economic interests,
19:16and palace intrigue.
19:17The priests of Baal
19:19were eating
19:19at the royal table.
19:21The believers
19:21were hiding in caves.
19:23In the middle
19:24of this dark period,
19:25a man appeared quietly.
19:27His name was
19:29Ilyas,
19:29aleyhis-salaam.
19:31He did not live
19:31in the palace,
19:32but in the mountains.
19:34He had no golden crown,
19:35no army.
19:37He had only
19:38the command of Allah,
19:39and he would go up
19:40to Mount Carmel
19:41to deliver that command
19:42to the 450 priests
19:44of Baal,
19:45to Jezebel,
19:46and to Ahab.
19:48Allah says about
19:49Ilyas,
19:49aleyhis-salaam,
19:51in Surah As-Safat,
19:52verse 123.
19:54Indeed,
19:55Ilyas was one
19:56of the messengers,
19:57just one sentence.
19:59But behind that sentence
20:01was one of the greatest
20:02loneliness in history.
20:03The prophet Muhammad,
20:04peace be upon him,
20:06said,
20:06The best form of jihad
20:08is to speak the truth
20:09in front of a tyrant ruler,
20:11Tirmidhi Abu Dawud.
20:14Ilyas,
20:15aleyhis-salaam,
20:16was a living example
20:17of this.
20:18Despite the palace
20:19of Jezebel
20:20and the throne of Ahab,
20:21he stood alone.
20:22And on Mount Carmel,
20:24everything would change.
20:26For three years,
20:27no rain had fallen.
20:29The fields were cracked,
20:30the rivers had dried,
20:32the animals had died.
20:34From Baalbek to Samaria,
20:36across all of Canaan,
20:37people were dying from hunger.
20:39The table in the queen's palace
20:40was full,
20:41but the children in the streets
20:42were hungry.
20:43And for this drought to begin,
20:45only one man
20:46had made a prayer,
20:48Ilyas,
20:49aleyhis-salaam.
20:50According to narrations,
20:52when the children of Israel
20:54continued to worship Baal,
20:56Ilyas, aleyhis-salaam,
20:57prayed to Allah,
20:58My Lord,
20:59the children of Israel
21:01have stopped recognizing you.
21:03They killed your prophets.
21:04They worshipped idols.
21:06You gave them blessings,
21:08gardens, abundance,
21:09provision.
21:10Change these blessings.
21:12They do not deserve them.
21:14Allah replied,
21:15I have placed their provision
21:17in your hands.
21:18They will not eat
21:19unless you allow it.
21:21Then Ilyas, aleyhis-salaam,
21:23said,
21:23My Lord,
21:24then do not send rain
21:25for three years.
21:26And the rain stopped.
21:27What did the priests of Baal do?
21:30They ran to the temples.
21:31They begged Baal.
21:32For days,
21:33for weeks,
21:34they shouted.
21:34They offered sacrifices.
21:36But not a single drop
21:38came from the sky.
21:39Because it was not Baal
21:41who sent the rain.
21:42It never was.
21:43At the end of three years,
21:44Allah commanded Ilyas,
21:46aleyhis-salaam,
21:47to go to King Ahab.
21:48And Ilyas, aleyhis-salaam,
21:50stood before him.
21:51When Ahab saw him,
21:53he shouted,
21:54Is it you,
21:55the one who brings trouble
21:56to Israel?
21:58Ilyas, aleyhis-salaam,
22:00did not speak long.
22:01He only said this,
22:02I am not the one
22:03bringing trouble to Israel.
22:05You are,
22:06by worshipping Baal
22:07and leaving the commands
22:08of Allah,
22:09you and the people around you.
22:11Then he made his proposal.
22:13All the people would gather
22:15on Mount Carmel.
22:16The 450 priests of Baal
22:19would be there.
22:19Both sides would prepare
22:21a sacrifice
22:22and place it on wood,
22:23but they would not
22:24light the fire.
22:25Whichever God sent fire
22:27from the sky
22:28would be the true one.
22:29The people accepted.
22:32Morning came.
22:33The priests of Baal
22:34prepared their sacrifice,
22:35and they began to shout.
22:37For hours they shouted.
22:39They danced.
22:40They cut themselves.
22:41According to their custom,
22:43they cut themselves
22:44with knives and spears
22:45until blood flowed.
22:46This was the same
22:48morning ritual
22:48described in the Ugarit tablets
22:50during the yearly death
22:51of Baal.
22:52Ilyas knew this,
22:55and he openly mocked them.
22:57Shout louder,
22:58he said.
22:59Maybe he is thinking.
23:00Maybe he is traveling.
23:02Maybe he is sleeping,
23:03and you need to wake him.
23:05This was not just mockery.
23:07In Ugarit mythology,
23:09Baal really dies
23:10and sleeps every year.
23:12His sister Anat
23:13goes out to search for him.
23:15Ilyas was confronting them
23:18with their own stories.
23:19Afternoon came.
23:21Evening was near.
23:22Nothing happened.
23:23Then Ilyas stepped forward.
23:26He placed the sacrifice
23:27on the stones.
23:29Then he made only one prayer.
23:31A short prayer.
23:32My Lord,
23:34the God of Ibrahim,
23:35Ishaq,
23:36and Israel,
23:37let it be known today
23:38that you are the God of Israel,
23:40that I am your servant,
23:41and that I have done
23:42all this by your command.
23:45At that moment,
23:46fire came down from the sky.
23:48It burned the wood,
23:50the stones,
23:51and the sacrifice.
23:52Then a great cloud appeared.
23:53Heavy rain began.
23:55The people fell on their faces
23:56and cried out,
23:57There is no God but Allah.
24:00Allah says in Surah As-Safat,
24:02verses 123 to 132.
24:05Indeed,
24:06Ilyas was one of the messengers
24:08when he said to his people,
24:10Will you not fear Allah?
24:11Do you call upon Baal
24:13and leave the best of creators?
24:15Allah is your Lord
24:17and the Lord of your forefathers.
24:19But they denied him,
24:21so they will surely
24:22be brought forward for punishment
24:23except the sincere servants of Allah.
24:26And we left for him
24:28a good mention
24:29among later generations.
24:31Peace be upon Ilyas.
24:33Indeed,
24:33we reward those who do good.
24:36Indeed,
24:37he was one of our believing servants.
24:39One man against 450 priests of Baal.
24:43One prayer against the army of a queen.
24:46One truth against a tradition of idolatry
24:48thousands of years old.
24:51On the horizon of the sea,
24:53a small cloud appeared
24:54and the size of a man's fist.
24:57Then it grew.
24:58Then it covered the sky.
25:00And over the cracked lands of Canaan,
25:03after three years of longing,
25:05heavy rain fell.
25:06Baal could not do this.
25:08He could not send even a single drop.
25:10But this victory was not the end of the story
25:13because people forget what they see very quickly.
25:17When Jezebel heard the news from Mount Carmel,
25:20she trembled.
25:20But not from fear,
25:22from anger.
25:23Her priests had been killed,
25:25her God had been defeated,
25:26and the people,
25:27even if only for a moment,
25:28had bowed before Allah.
25:30She sent a message to Ilyas,
25:33by this time tomorrow,
25:35if I do not make you like those priests,
25:37may my gods do the same to me.
25:40And at that moment,
25:41something unexpected happened.
25:43Allah commanded Ilyas to leave his people.
25:47This was a sign that greater punishments
25:49would come upon them.
25:51Ilyas was now about to meet Allah.
25:54Allah said to him,
25:56Go to such and such place
25:57and wait there on such and such day.
26:00A creature will come to you.
26:01It looks like lightning,
26:03burning like fire.
26:04Do not fear it.
26:05Ride on it.
26:08Ilyas waited at that place on that day.
26:12Ilyas was also with him.
26:14A creature in the form of a horse,
26:16with a color like fire,
26:18came and stood before Ilyas
26:20he immediately mounted it.
26:22Then Ilyas was carried with it
26:25to Mount Cassiyun in Sham.
26:27While rising,
26:28he dropped his cloak,
26:29his prayer mat,
26:31from the sky to Alyasa.
26:33This act meant,
26:35I have made you the successor
26:36over the children of Israel.
26:38After that,
26:40Alyasa was sent as a prophet
26:42to that region.
26:44Allah gave wings to Ilyas
26:46clothed him in light
26:48and removed from him
26:49the need for food and drink.
26:51He was raised to a rank
26:52where he could be present
26:53in many places at the same time.
26:56After Ilyas left,
26:59Alyasa remained.
27:01In narrations reported
27:03from the Prophet Muhammad,
27:04peace be upon him,
27:06it is told that
27:07after the passing of Ilyas
27:08the children of Israel
27:11again fell into corruption,
27:13disbelief,
27:14shirk,
27:15and innovation.
27:16They continued to worship Baal.
27:19After that,
27:20Alyasa was sent as a prophet.
27:24Alyasa lived among his people
27:26for as long as Allah willed.
27:28He called them to Allah
27:30by holding firmly
27:31to the method and law
27:32of Ilyas
27:35but he also faced
27:36strong resistance.
27:38Most of the people
27:39continued to worship Baal
27:41and they were struck
27:42by many different disasters.
27:44After this period,
27:46a very interesting idea
27:47began to spread.
27:49The idol Baal
27:50was actually
27:51Shaitan himself.
27:53Baal had an important title,
27:56Baal Zebul,
27:57meaning Exalted Lord
27:58or High Master.
28:00In Jewish, Christian
28:01and especially
28:02demonology literature,
28:04Baal came to be seen
28:05as a false god,
28:06an idol,
28:07and later as a demonic being.
28:09In texts like
28:11the Lesser Key of Solomon,
28:12he is mentioned
28:13as one of the kings of hell.
28:15And in Pseudo-Monarchia Demonum,
28:17he is described as a king
28:19who rules over 66 legions.
28:23In the Kabbalistic classic Zohar,
28:26there is a claim
28:27that Baal is at the same rank
28:28as the archangel Raphael
28:30in Islam, Israfil.
28:33In the demonological magic book
28:35called Goetia,
28:36a grimoire,
28:37it is described
28:38that he sometimes appears
28:40in the form of a cat,
28:41a frog, or a human,
28:43and sometimes at the same time
28:45with the heads of a human,
28:46a cat, and a frog.
28:49In satanic texts,
28:51it is written that Baal
28:52has a hoarse voice
28:53and can give all kinds
28:55of knowledge and wisdom,
28:56including the ability
28:58of invisibility
28:59to those who can connect
29:00with him properly.
29:01In invocation rituals,
29:04the magician who traps
29:05the spirit inside a circle
29:06must carry a plate,
29:08Laman,
29:09with the symbol of Baal
29:10on his chest
29:11in order to gain Baal's respect
29:14and receive what he wants.
29:16In Christian demonology,
29:18Beelzebub,
29:19that is, Baal,
29:20was described as
29:21the most powerful assistant
29:23of Shaitan.
29:25In the Gospel of Mark,
29:26the Pharisees said
29:28to Isa,
29:28a.s.
29:29He is possessed
29:30by Beelzebub.
29:32By the power
29:33of the prince of demons,
29:34he drives out demons.
29:37This single verse
29:38sealed the demonological
29:40transformation of Baal.
29:42He was no longer
29:43just a defeated god,
29:44but an active Shaitan.
29:46In 1667,
29:48John Milton wrote
29:49the masterpiece
29:50Paradise Lost.
29:51In this epic,
29:53the dark kingdom
29:54established after Shaitan
29:55was cast out of paradise
29:56is described.
29:58Milton gave this dark kingdom
30:00a name,
30:01Pandemonium,
30:02the council of all demons.
30:03And in this council,
30:05Baal stopped being
30:06a single being
30:07and became a collective name
30:09for all fallen beings.
30:11Milton used the word
30:12Baalim,
30:14meaning Baals,
30:15for all the scattered
30:17demonic beings on earth.
30:18So,
30:19a storm god
30:21after thousands of years
30:22became a symbol
30:23of all dark forces.
30:25The Quran presents him
30:26as a false center of power
30:28that people turn to
30:29after leaving Allah.
30:31A clear example of shirk.
30:33In Surah As-Safat,
30:35verses 125 to 126,
30:38Allah says,
30:39Do you call upon Baal
30:41and leave the best of creators?
30:42Allah is your Lord
30:44and the Lord
30:45and the Lord
30:45of your forefathers.
30:47The argument
30:48in these verses is this.
30:50He is not the creator.
30:53And turning to anything
30:54that is not the creator
30:55cuts a person off
30:57from the true source.
30:59The prophet Muhammad,
31:00peace be upon him,
31:01said,
31:02Shaitan flows through
31:03the son of Adam
31:04like blood flows.
31:06Bukhari, Muslim.
31:09The demonization of Baal
31:10made him seem like
31:11something external
31:12in people's minds.
31:14But the real danger
31:15was always inside,
31:17the heart becoming attached
31:18to something other than Allah.
31:21Baal was considered
31:22one of the most loved
31:23and revered deities,
31:25especially among
31:26the Eastern Semitic peoples
31:27and Arab communities.
31:30This idol was believed
31:31to be the husband
31:32of female stars
31:33called Shai and Brihaspati.
31:36The Phoenicians,
31:37Canaanites,
31:38Moabites,
31:39and Midianites
31:40worshipped this idol widely.
31:42It is also known
31:43that the Moabites
31:45and Midianites
31:46worshipped this idol
31:47during the time
31:48of Musa,
31:49a.s.
31:50Shuaib, a.s.
31:52was sent to the people
31:53of Madian
31:54to stop them
31:55from worshipping Baal.
31:57According to some historians,
31:59among the Arabs,
32:00the idol Hubal
32:01was also considered
32:03another name of Baal.
32:05The belief in the greatness
32:06and power of Baal
32:08led to him being called
32:09by different names.
32:11Arabs also used
32:12the same word for husband.
32:14But when the word
32:15was used with certain forms,
32:17it specifically meant
32:19God or deity.
32:21In Israel
32:22and many regions
32:23of the east,
32:24large festivals
32:25were held for Baal.
32:27Sacrifices were made,
32:28large temples
32:29and altars were built.
32:31Some Jewish priests
32:32burned incense,
32:33offered oils,
32:34and at times
32:35even gave human sacrifices
32:37for this idol.
32:38The idol of Baal itself
32:40was made of gold,
32:41about 20 cubits tall,
32:43and had four faces.
32:45400 priests
32:46were assigned
32:46to serve it.
32:47The end of the Baal cult
32:49in Israel
32:50did not come
32:51with one dramatic moment,
32:52but with a slow
32:53and painful collapse.
32:55The northern kingdom
32:56of Israel
32:57was destroyed
32:57by the Assyrian Empire
32:59in 722 BC.
33:02Ten tribes were exiled,
33:04cities were burned,
33:05temples were destroyed.
33:07The southern kingdom
33:08of Judah
33:09was destroyed
33:09by Babylon
33:10in 586 BC.
33:13The walls of Jerusalem
33:15collapsed,
33:16the temple of Solomon
33:17was burned,
33:18the people were exiled
33:19to Babylon.
33:20Narrations connect
33:21this disaster
33:22directly to the worship
33:23of Baal.
33:24They abandoned
33:25all the commands
33:26of their Lord.
33:27They worshipped Baal.
33:29The Lord became
33:29very angry with Israel
33:31and removed them
33:32from His presence.
33:33But Allah presents this
33:35as a universal truth
33:37in the Quran.
33:37In Surah Ar-Rum
33:40verse 41,
33:41Allah says,
33:43Corruption
33:44has appeared
33:45on land and sea
33:46because of what
33:47people's hands
33:48have earned,
33:49so He lets them
33:50taste some
33:51of what they have done
33:52so that they may return.
33:54The end of the Baal cult
33:56was not only
33:57the fall of an idol,
33:58it was the clearest
34:00historical proof
34:01of how a civilization
34:02pays the price
34:03for forgetting Allah.
34:05The Babylonian exile
34:07and the birth
34:08of the occult.
34:09In 586 BC,
34:12Jerusalem was burning.
34:13The armies of Nebuchadnezzar
34:15had broken the city walls.
34:17The great temple
34:18built by Suleyman
34:19alaihi salam
34:20with its gold-covered walls,
34:22its columns,
34:23and the inner chamber
34:24where the Ark of the Covenant
34:25was kept
34:26was set on fire.
34:27The most sacred place
34:29of the children of Israel
34:30was disappearing
34:31in smoke and ashes,
34:33and the people
34:34began to walk
34:35toward Babylon in chains.
34:37This was not only
34:38a political defeat,
34:40this was the moment
34:41when the soul
34:41of a civilization
34:42was broken,
34:44because for the children
34:45of Israel,
34:46the temple
34:46was not just a building,
34:48it was the house
34:49of Allah on earth.
34:51And now,
34:52that house was burning.
34:54So what came out
34:55of this disaster?
34:56Babylon was the greatest
34:57and most advanced
34:58city of that time.
35:00With its hanging gardens,
35:02massive walls,
35:02and grand city design,
35:04it was one of the most
35:05impressive places
35:06in human history.
35:08But Babylon
35:08was also something else.
35:10It was the center
35:11of occult knowledge
35:12in the world.
35:14Chaldean priests
35:15were reading the stars there.
35:17Astrology,
35:18magic,
35:18divination,
35:19and rituals
35:20to call jinn,
35:21all of these
35:22were studied
35:22in a systematic way
35:24in Babylon.
35:25The temple of Marduk
35:26was dedicated
35:27to the main god
35:28of the city.
35:29But around it
35:30were many other temples,
35:31many rituals,
35:32and many schools
35:33of hidden knowledge.
35:35And the children of Israel
35:36came to this city
35:37as captives.
35:38According to a narration
35:40mentioned in sources
35:41and presented
35:42in Islamic tradition
35:43as an important warning,
35:45after the death
35:46of Sulaiman,
35:47the Shayatin
35:48took action.
35:50They buried forbidden books
35:51under his throne.
35:52These texts explained
35:54magic,
35:54sorcery,
35:55and methods
35:56of calling jinn.
35:57Later,
35:58people found
35:59these writings,
36:00and they falsely
36:01attributed this knowledge
36:02to Sulaiman
36:03alayhi salam.
36:05Allah corrects
36:05this history
36:06in Surah al-Baqarah
36:07verse 102.
36:09They followed
36:10what the devils
36:10used to recite
36:11during the reign
36:12of Sulaiman.
36:13Sulaiman
36:14did not disbelieve,
36:16but the devils
36:17disbelieved.
36:18They taught people
36:19magic
36:20and what was sent
36:21down to the two angels
36:22in Babylon,
36:23Harut and Marut.
36:25But these two
36:26never taught anyone
36:27without first saying,
36:29we are only a test,
36:30so do not fall
36:31into disbelief.
36:33Yet people learned
36:34from them
36:35what causes separation
36:36between a man
36:37and his wife.
36:38But they could not
36:40harm anyone
36:40except by permission
36:41of Allah.
36:42They learned
36:43what harmed them
36:44and did not benefit them.
36:46This verse
36:47is very important
36:48because it connects
36:49the origin
36:50of occult practices
36:51in Babylon
36:52to a false legacy
36:54attributed to
36:54Sulaiman
36:55alayhi salam
36:56and it clearly says
36:57that this false knowledge
36:59brings real harm.
37:01Harut and Marut,
37:02two angels
37:03sent to Babylon.
37:05But why?
37:06Islamic scholars
37:07explain that they
37:08were sent as a test.
37:09They taught knowledge
37:11of magic
37:11but always gave
37:13a warning first.
37:14We are only a trial.
37:16do not fall
37:17into disbelief.
37:19So the knowledge
37:20was given
37:20and the warning
37:22was also given.
37:23But people ignored
37:24the warning.
37:25Over time,
37:27this knowledge
37:27became one of the
37:28foundations
37:29of Babylonian
37:30occult practices.
37:31Separating husband
37:32and wife,
37:33harming people,
37:34reaching hidden powers,
37:36these became
37:36the most demanded
37:37things in that
37:38dark system.
37:40And here begins
37:41one of the most
37:42interesting paradoxes
37:44in history.
37:44The children of Israel
37:46went to Babylon
37:47as captives.
37:48But during the many years
37:49they stayed there,
37:50something changed.
37:52Jewish theology
37:53became deeper,
37:55sharper,
37:55and more systematic.
37:57There was no temple.
37:59Sacrifices could not
38:00be offered.
38:01The priest system
38:02could not function.
38:03So the scholars
38:04of Israel began
38:05to build religious life
38:07on something else,
38:08on texts,
38:09on explaining,
38:11discussing,
38:11and analyzing
38:12the Torah.
38:13But at the same
38:14time,
38:15and this is critical,
38:16some groups
38:17came into contact
38:18with the occult
38:19heritage of Babylon.
38:21Chaldean astrology,
38:23number mysticism,
38:24hidden names,
38:25and symbolic
38:26interpretation
38:26slowly entered
38:28some parts
38:28of Jewish thought.
38:30This influence
38:31would later become
38:32a structured,
38:33mystical tradition
38:34known as Kabbalah.
38:36Kabbalah,
38:37a Hebrew word
38:38meaning received
38:39or transmitted,
38:40is one of the most
38:41complex and debated
38:42branches of Jewish mysticism.
38:45Some Islamic scholars
38:47and Western researchers
38:48point out
38:49that parts of its origins
38:50are connected
38:51to the Babylonian exile.
38:53The hidden meanings
38:54of numbers,
38:55the use of divine names,
38:57the layers of the soul,
38:59the hierarchy
38:59of cosmic forces,
39:01all show strong similarities
39:03with Babylonian occult traditions.
39:06Sources state,
39:07during the Babylonian exile
39:09in the time of Nebuchadnezzar,
39:11exposure to Chaldean occultism
39:14and the knowledge
39:15of Harut and Marut
39:16may have influenced
39:17the development
39:18of Jewish esoteric mysticism,
39:20later known as Kabbalah.
39:22This does not apply
39:23to all Jewish tradition,
39:25but it suggests
39:26that a certain branch,
39:28one that engaged
39:29with occult practices,
39:31developed secret rituals,
39:32and gave deep meaning
39:34to symbols,
39:35was influenced
39:36by this Babylonian heritage.
39:38Islam looks at all of this
39:40from a very clear perspective.
39:42Allah sent knowledge
39:43directly to people
39:44through prophets.
39:45This knowledge was open,
39:47it was not hidden.
39:48It was for everyone
39:49to understand.
39:51The occult is the opposite.
39:53Hidden knowledge,
39:54secrets for a chosen few,
39:56powers reached through rituals.
39:58This creates intermediaries
40:00between Allah and the human being,
40:03and Islam strongly rejects this.
40:06The end of Surah al-Baqarah,
40:08verse 102 says,
40:09They surely knew
40:11that whoever bought this
40:12would have no share
40:13in the hereafter.
40:14And how bad is that
40:16for which they sold themselves,
40:18if they only knew?
40:20In the occult-filled atmosphere
40:22of Babylon,
40:23some of the exiled children
40:25of Israel made this trade.
40:26They sold their hereafter
40:28for worldly power
40:30and hidden knowledge.
40:31And the legacy of that trade
40:33is still moving
40:34in the world today.
40:36The Babylonian exile
40:37ended in 538 BC.
40:40The Persian king Cyrus
40:42allowed the children of Israel
40:43to return.
40:45Some returned,
40:46but many chose to stay.
40:49And what they carried with them
40:50was not only memory,
40:51the occult heritage of Babylon,
40:54astrology,
40:54number mysticism,
40:56hidden traditions,
40:57ritual magic,
40:58traveled with them.
41:00Over time,
41:01it mixed with Jewish mysticism.
41:03From there,
41:04it passed into Christian esotericism.
41:07And later,
41:08in the dark rooms
41:09of the Middle Ages,
41:10in secret societies and lodges,
41:13it took new forms again.
41:15The Prophet Muhammad
41:16sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
41:18Whoever imitates a people
41:20becomes one of them.
41:21Abu Dawud.
41:22During the long years in Babylon,
41:25this warning became real.
41:27Some people,
41:28while waiting to be saved,
41:29slowly became part of the darkness
41:31they wanted to escape.
41:33And that darkness,
41:34as we will see in the next parts,
41:36never truly ended.
41:38Freemasonry and the occult,
41:40the Temple of Suleyman Connection,
41:43London,
41:44the year 1717.
41:47Four Masonic lodges came together
41:49and formed the Grand Lodge.
41:52Official history says,
41:53Freemasonry goes back to this date.
41:56But the Mason's own narrative
41:58goes much further back,
42:00to the Temple of Suleyman alayhi wa sallam.
42:03And here,
42:04one of the most mysterious claims
42:06in history begins.
42:08At the center of Masonic rituals
42:10stands one name,
42:12Hiram Abif.
42:13In the Bible,
42:15in 1 Kings chapter 7,
42:17this figure appears briefly
42:19as a master craftsman
42:20and metal worker
42:21brought from the city of Tyre
42:23to build the Temple
42:24of Suleyman alayhi wa sallam.
42:27In the Hebrew texts,
42:28his name is mentioned
42:29only a few times.
42:31But in Masonic rituals,
42:33Hiram Abif
42:34is taken to a completely
42:36different level.
42:36According to Masonic tradition,
42:39Hiram is the Grand Master
42:41of the Temple.
42:42He is the only one
42:43who knows all the secrets
42:44of the structure.
42:45One day,
42:46he is killed by three attackers
42:48who want to take these secrets.
42:50He refuses to reveal
42:51the secret word.
42:52He dies.
42:54And later,
42:55he is brought back.
42:56Death and rebirth.
42:58A theme we see
42:59from Baal to Zeus,
43:01from Zeus to Osiris.
43:03Researchers point
43:05to a striking connection here.
43:06Melkart,
43:07the main god of Tyre.
43:09His name means
43:10Lord of the City.
43:12He was one of the most
43:13important gods
43:14of the Phoenicians.
43:15And Melkart
43:16was the local form
43:18of Baal in Tyre.
43:20At the center
43:20of Melkart's cult,
43:21there was also
43:22a ritual of death
43:23and rebirth.
43:25Every year,
43:26the awakening of Melkart
43:27was celebrated
43:28with ceremonies.
43:29Phoenician texts
43:30describe this god
43:31as being reborn
43:32through fire.
43:33and Hiram Abiff,
43:35the grand master
43:36of Freemasonry,
43:37comes from Tyre,
43:38the city of Melkart.
43:40Is this a coincidence?
43:41Some researchers suggest
43:43that the figure
43:44of Hiram Abiff
43:45is a reflection
43:46of the Phoenician
43:47Melkart cult
43:48within Masonic rituals.
43:51Melkart,
43:52the Tyrian form of Baal,
43:54may have been woven
43:54into the founding myth
43:56of Freemasonry.
43:57At this point,
43:58there is a claim
43:59mentioned in the Bible.
44:01Sulaiman,
44:01a.s. sent a message
44:03to King Hiram of Tyre
44:05for the construction
44:06of the temple
44:06and asked for cedar wood
44:08from Lebanon,
44:09Phoenician craftsmen
44:10and architectural knowledge.
44:12This means that
44:13the temple of Sulaiman,
44:14a.s. was in part
44:16built by Phoenician builders
44:18and influenced
44:19by Phoenician
44:20architectural tradition.
44:22Because of this,
44:23some claim
44:23that this temple
44:25is being planned
44:25to be rebuilt today.
44:27Of course,
44:28according to Islam,
44:29it is clear
44:30that Prophet Sulaiman
44:31has no connection
44:32with Baal.
44:33In fact,
44:34some Jews in the past
44:36accused Sulaiman
44:37a.s. of being involved
44:39in magic,
44:40but Islam rejects
44:42all such claims completely.
44:44One of the most basic concepts
44:46in Freemasonry
44:46is the Grand Architect.
44:49In English,
44:50Grand Architect
44:51of the Universe.
44:52This concept describes God
44:54as a builder,
44:55a designer,
44:56but which God it refers to
44:57is intentionally left unclear.
45:01Masonic lodges
45:02use this ambiguity
45:03to gather members
45:04from different religions
45:05under one structure.
45:07Critics ask this,
45:08if the intention
45:10is the God of Islam
45:11or the God of Christianity,
45:14why is the name
45:15not stated clearly?
45:16Is this ambiguity
45:18for inclusiveness
45:19or is it
45:20a deliberate concealment?
45:22In 1776 in Bavaria,
45:26Adam Weishaupt
45:27founded the organization
45:28called the Illuminati.
45:30In a short time,
45:31it became closely connected
45:33with Masonic lodges.
45:35Written sources state
45:36that Weishaupt's goal
45:38was to weaken the authority
45:39of the church
45:40and the state
45:41and to build a new order
45:43guided by reason
45:44and hidden knowledge.
45:46The organization
45:47was banned
45:48by the Bavarian government
45:49in 1785.
45:51But many researchers
45:52believe that the structure
45:54continued under different names.
45:56According to various claims,
45:58these secret structures
46:00share a common pattern,
46:01power,
46:02hidden knowledge
46:03and ritual.
46:04Just like the priests
46:05of Baal held religious,
46:07political
46:08and economic power together,
46:10modern secret groups
46:11are also said to stand
46:12on these same three pillars.
46:14According to many sources,
46:16this group consists
46:18of powerful elite individuals
46:20and has strong influence
46:22in politics
46:22and the entertainment industry
46:24and its effects
46:25still continue today.
46:28For example,
46:29in Northern California
46:30near the town of Monte Rio,
46:32deep in a redwood forest,
46:34private meetings
46:35take place every year in July.
46:37Some of the most powerful people
46:39in the world
46:40come to this forest.
46:41U.S. presidents,
46:43defense secretaries,
46:45CIA directors,
46:46central bank leaders,
46:48CEOs
46:49of Fortune 500 companies,
46:51media figures.
46:52And every year,
46:53the meeting is kept private.
46:55The name of the gathering,
46:57Bohemian Grove.
46:59Bohemian Grove
47:00has been known
47:00for a long time.
47:02It was presented
47:03as a place
47:03where elite men
47:04spend summertime,
47:06camp,
47:06play golf
47:07and talk about business.
47:08But in 2000,
47:10Alex Jones
47:11entered the forest secretly
47:13and recorded
47:14what he saw at night.
47:16In the center of the forest,
47:17near a large artificial lake,
47:20there was a stone owl statue
47:22about 15 meters tall.
47:24In front of it,
47:25there was a small fire platform.
47:27In the darkness of the night,
47:29people carrying torches
47:31came out of the forest.
47:32They were wearing long robes.
47:34They moved on boats
47:35across the lake
47:36and gathered in front
47:37of the platform.
47:38Then the ritual began.
47:40Cremation of care.
47:43A figure carried
47:44a human-shaped object
47:45made of wood
47:46to the platform,
47:47a symbolic sacrifice.
47:49It was set on fire.
47:51It burned in front of the owl.
47:53The crowd watched.
47:54After this,
47:55discussions began
47:56about a connection
47:57between the owl
47:58and moloch.
47:59The organizers say
48:01the ritual is symbolic.
48:02They say care means daily stress,
48:06responsibility,
48:06and worry.
48:08It is burned and left behind,
48:10a kind of psychological release.
48:12But critics describe
48:14a different picture.
48:15The owl in the ancient world
48:18was a symbol of wisdom
48:19and mystery traditions.
48:21In Babylon,
48:23Sumer,
48:23and Egypt,
48:24the owl was connected
48:25with the night
48:26and the unseen world.
48:28In some descriptions
48:29of moloch,
48:30there are also features
48:32that match the owl image.
48:34The figure burned
48:35in the cremation of care ritual
48:37shows a structural similarity
48:39to the idea of sacrifice
48:40in Baal and moloch traditions.
48:43In ancient rituals,
48:44the most valuable thing,
48:46the first child,
48:47the best animal,
48:48the most precious object,
48:50was offered.
48:51Here,
48:52the most valuable thing
48:53is presented in a symbolic way,
48:56worry,
48:57burden,
48:57conscience.
48:58According to sources
49:00in studies of moloch worship,
49:02the main idea of sacrifice
49:04is to offer
49:05the most valuable thing
49:06to the god.
49:08Even if symbolic,
49:09the structure
49:10in the bohemian grove ritual
49:12shows a similar pattern.
49:14Who attended?
49:15The member list
49:16of bohemian grove
49:17closely matches
49:18the map of power
49:19in the United States.
49:21Among documented participants
49:23are Richard Nixon,
49:24Ronald Reagan,
49:26George H.W. Bush,
49:28George W. Bush,
49:29Henry Kissinger,
49:31Dick Cheney,
49:32Donald Rumsfeld,
49:33Alan Greenspan,
49:35and Walter Cronkite.
49:36Richard Nixon
49:37once described
49:38bohemian grove
49:39in a 1971 recording
49:42as the most homosexual
49:44and strange thing
49:45you can imagine.
49:46This statement
49:47is on record.
49:48Yet he continued
49:49to attend for years.
49:51The organization
49:52is open only to men.
49:55Women are strictly
49:56not allowed.
49:57This rule has not changed
49:59since its founding.
50:01In 2000,
50:02Alex Jones
50:03and his colleague
50:04Mike Hansen
50:05entered the forest
50:06and recorded the ritual.
50:08When the footage
50:08was released,
50:09it caused a strong reaction.
50:12Mainstream media
50:13mostly ignored
50:14or downplayed the story,
50:15but the footage
50:16became a concrete record
50:18of what had previously
50:19been considered speculation.
50:21The bohemian club
50:22later acknowledged
50:24that the ritual exists,
50:25but insisted
50:26that it is purely symbolic.
50:28So the main question
50:29is this,
50:30why do some of the most
50:32powerful people
50:32in the world
50:33gather once a year
50:35in a forest
50:35and perform a ritual
50:36in front of fire?
50:37The answer depends
50:39on perspective.
50:41Supporters say
50:42this is simply
50:43a tradition
50:44of an elite social club.
50:46Old friends meet,
50:48read poetry,
50:49listen to music
50:50and spend time
50:51in nature.
50:52The ritual
50:53is just a dramatic
50:55opening ceremony.
50:57Critics ask
50:57a different question.
50:59While the rest
51:00of the world
51:00struggles with hunger,
51:02war and disease,
51:03why are these people
51:05burning care?
51:05Care is what makes
51:07a person responsible.
51:09It triggers conscience
51:10and accountability.
51:12What does it mean
51:12to burn that?
51:15Some observers
51:16also point out
51:17structural similarities
51:18with the priests
51:19of Baal.
51:21The ancient Baal cult
51:22had three main features,
51:24secrecy,
51:25exclusivity
51:26and ritual.
51:27The rituals
51:28were not public,
51:29they belonged
51:30to the priests.
51:31The temples
51:32had inner areas
51:33where ordinary people
51:34could not enter.
51:35knowledge and power
51:36were kept within
51:37a small group.
51:38Bohemian grove
51:39shows a similar structure,
51:41secrecy,
51:42exclusivity
51:42and ritual,
51:43closed to media,
51:45entry only for members
51:46and inside,
51:47a fire is lit
51:48in front of a large statue.
51:50The priests of Baal
51:52were also waiting
51:53for fire on Mount Carmel.
51:55Their fire never came.
51:56Allah repeats
51:57the question asked
51:58by Ilyas a.s.
51:59in Surah As-Safat,
52:01Do you call upon
52:02something other
52:03than the best
52:04of creators?
52:05For the most powerful people
52:07gathering in front
52:08of a giant owl,
52:09this question
52:10is as relevant today
52:11as it was
52:12for a farmer
52:13in ancient Canaan.
52:15In the ancient Baal system,
52:18power and ritual
52:19were always connected.
52:20The king proved
52:21his authority
52:22through closeness
52:23to Baal.
52:24The priests
52:25controlled ritual
52:26and held religious,
52:27political and economic power.
52:29That structure
52:30has not changed.
52:31Only the forms
52:32have changed.
52:33What those gathered
52:34at Bohemian Grove
52:36have is exactly this,
52:38worldly comfort,
52:39money,
52:40power,
52:41fame,
52:41influence.
52:42And the care
52:43burned in front
52:44of that power
52:45can be seen
52:46as a symbolic act
52:47of leaving behind
52:48accountability,
52:50conscience
52:50and fear of Allah.
52:52The priests of Baal
52:53were doing something similar.
52:55They did it
52:55on Mount Carmel.
52:56These do it
52:57in a redwood forest.
53:00Epstein files
53:02and claims
53:02of a Baal connection.
53:04Some names
53:05leave a dark stain
53:06in history.
53:07Jeffrey Epstein
53:08is one of them.
53:09A billionaire,
53:11financier
53:11and convicted offender
53:13accused of abusing
53:14many young girls
53:15connected with powerful people,
53:17arrested in 2019
53:19and later found dead
53:21in prison.
53:22But the Epstein case
53:23was not only a crime story.
53:26The released documents
53:27shocked the world
53:28and inside these files
53:30one unexpected name
53:32was claimed to appear
53:33again and again,
53:35Baal.
53:37According to claims
53:38discussed by some researchers
53:39reviewing large sets
53:41of court documents,
53:42there were references
53:43suggesting that an account
53:45used by Epstein
53:46had the name Baal.
53:48One cited claim
53:50mentions a transfer record
53:52including the phrase
53:53Baal.name
53:54connected to a bank transaction.
53:56By itself,
53:57what does this mean?
53:59Is it coincidence
54:00or a deliberate choice?
54:02It is difficult
54:03to give a definite answer.
54:05But in context,
54:06such a name choice
54:07raises serious questions.
54:10Epstein's private island
54:11in the Caribbean,
54:12Little St. James,
54:13has long been
54:14a place of mystery.
54:15At the top of the island,
54:17there was a noticeable structure,
54:19a small, blue-and-white
54:21striped building
54:22with a golden dome.
54:24From the outside,
54:25it looked like a temple.
54:27Some researchers
54:28analyzed the architecture
54:29and made comparisons.
54:31One claim says
54:32the design resembles
54:33a historical structure
54:34from Aleppo
54:35and that the original location
54:37was linked in some traditions
54:38to older religious practices.
54:41If true,
54:42and this is not fully verified,
54:44it could suggest
54:45symbolic influence
54:46in architectural choices.
54:49Public reports
54:50also included
54:51controversial statements
54:52from people
54:53connected to Epstein.
54:55Some sources claim
54:56that in an interview,
54:58a relative appeared
54:59to suggest links
55:00to a group
55:00using the name Baal,
55:02described as
55:03influential and secretive.
55:06However,
55:07it is important to be clear.
55:09These claims
55:10are not all confirmed facts.
55:13Some are documented,
55:14some are still under investigation,
55:16and some remain speculation.
55:19What is confirmed
55:20is this.
55:21The Epstein case
55:22exposed organized abuse
55:24involving powerful individuals.
55:27This has been established
55:28in court findings
55:29and official investigations.
55:31Another claim
55:32discussed in recent years
55:34is also highly controversial.
55:36It suggests
55:37that emails
55:37mentioned attempts
55:38to obtain pieces
55:39of the kiswa,
55:40the cloth,
55:41covering the Kaaba.
55:43If such claims
55:44were ever proven,
55:45they would raise
55:46serious ethical
55:47and religious concerns.
55:49For Muslims,
55:50sacred objects
55:51are deeply respected,
55:52and any misuse
55:54would be seen
55:54as a serious violation.
55:56For now,
55:57these claims
55:58remain unverified
55:59and should be treated carefully.
56:01One clear reality
56:03remains.
56:04The Epstein case
56:05showed how silence,
56:07influence,
56:08and power
56:08can protect wrongdoing
56:10for a long time.
56:11Many people stayed silent.
56:13Many knew,
56:14but did not speak.
56:15Because power
56:16often controls silence.
56:18When people compare
56:19different events,
56:20private islands,
56:22elite gatherings,
56:23secretive structures,
56:24they sometimes see patterns.
56:27But it is important
56:28to separate proven facts
56:29from speculation.
56:30What history clearly shows
56:32is this.
56:33Abuse of power,
56:35secrecy,
56:35and moral failure
56:36can appear
56:37in different forms
56:38in different times.
56:40The real issue
56:41is not names
56:42or symbols alone.
56:43It is what people
56:44choose to do
56:45with power,
56:46responsibility,
56:47and truth.
56:48claims about modern wars
56:50and a connection
56:51to Baal.
56:52In the ancient world,
56:54no army marched
56:55without a god.
56:56Every sword
56:57was blessed
56:58with a ritual.
56:59Every victory
57:00was celebrated
57:01in a temple.
57:02Every defeat
57:03was explained
57:03as the anger
57:04of a god.
57:05And among those gods,
57:07Baal was often
57:08described as one
57:09of the most violent.
57:10The essence of Baal
57:12was the storm,
57:13thunder,
57:14lightning,
57:15destruction,
57:15and also the water
57:17that gives life.
57:18But very early,
57:19the power of the storm
57:21became linked
57:21with war.
57:23Lightning became
57:24a weapon,
57:25thunder became
57:25a battle cry,
57:27the storm became
57:28chaos falling
57:29on an army.
57:30According to works
57:32like the Celtic
57:32encyclopedia,
57:34Baal,
57:34or Bel,
57:35was described
57:36in some traditions
57:37as a god connected
57:39with both power
57:40and war,
57:41sometimes shown
57:41as a young warrior
57:42with horns.
57:43In many societies
57:45where the Baal cult spread,
57:47it became connected
57:48with war rituals.
57:49The Carthaginians
57:50made sacrifices
57:51before battles.
57:53Phoenicians prayed
57:54to Baal during storms
57:55at sea.
57:56Some rulers,
57:57influenced by Baal priests,
57:59even made war decisions
58:00based on oracles.
58:01Among the Scythians
58:03of Central Asia,
58:04the war god
58:05was represented
58:05directly as a sword.
58:07Historian George Rawlinson
58:09described how large
58:10ritual sites
58:11were built
58:11from piled branches
58:12with a sword
58:14placed on top
58:15and sacrifices
58:16were made there.
58:17Now consider this carefully.
58:19Symbols of power,
58:21weapons,
58:22and ritual
58:22have appeared
58:23in many civilizations
58:24and continue
58:26in different forms today.
58:28Some people draw
58:29connections
58:29between ancient symbols
58:31and modern state imagery,
58:33such as eagles,
58:34arrows,
58:35or pyramids
58:35found in national emblems
58:37like that of the United States.
58:39These symbols
58:40are historically documented,
58:42but their meanings
58:43are interpreted
58:44in many different ways
58:45by historians.
58:46For example,
58:48the Great Seal
58:49of the United States
58:50includes an eagle
58:51holding arrows
58:52and an olive branch
58:53and a pyramid
58:55with an eye above it.
58:56These symbols
58:57were officially adopted
58:58in 1782.
59:00Historians generally
59:01interpret them
59:02as representing
59:03strength,
59:04peace,
59:05and divine providence,
59:06though alternative
59:07interpretations exist.
59:10It is important
59:11to distinguish clearly here.
59:12There is no proven
59:14historical evidence
59:15that modern governments
59:16or wars
59:17are directed
59:18by an ancient Baal cult.
59:20However,
59:21some people make
59:22symbolic
59:23or philosophical comparisons.
59:25When looking
59:26at modern wars,
59:27we see a different
59:28kind of pattern.
59:30Two world wars
59:31in the 20th century
59:32caused tens
59:33of millions of deaths.
59:35Many of them
59:36were young men
59:36who had not yet
59:37lived full lives.
59:39More recent
59:40conflicts
59:43have also
59:45caused suffering
59:46especially
59:46for civilians
59:47and children.
59:48Some commentators
59:50describe this
59:51as sacrificing
59:52the future
59:53for power.
59:53For power
59:53for power?
59:54For power
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