tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74067598191766738212024-03-14T00:13:02.830-07:00Your Islamic TeacherQuran software,Hadith software,scientific article,Dawaah Christanity,Islamic icon,Download Islamic Wallpapers, Converts To Islam,The prayer,Jihad,Jesus,Harun yahya,Fiqh ,Others,Contradictions Bible,Hinduism,Dawah Article,Marriage,Educative Flash,Fasting , Eid, Zakat, Hajj,children Education soft,Sunnaah , Innovation Shirk,Islam,the west,Muhammad (P.B.U.H),Seerah of companions,Youth Friendship,Sign, Life After Death, free softwareSharear Azamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14750674750420282488noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406759819176673821.post-76916785957441697702013-04-28T19:13:00.005-07:002021-05-12T21:41:12.145-07:00হাদিস সফটওয়্যার- Hadith Software 8th version<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div data-mce-style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCzxHFR4PQt79E8rXjoly-SM2bAjxfIlgY-EgERnwME1KWqrHTlG0QM0ZeJOYQ9IQlrHeJD8FntXt5aA17u9sNMoROUId1l9SUtjeZRDfD4-7MF-OjAt2zo_Z3YML39ZD22SGdPUpTTgay/s16000/HADITH+SOFTWARE.png" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: x-large;">হাদিস সফটওয়্যার</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">#ডিজিটাল_বাংলা_হাদিস_টিম_DBHT</a>" একটি বাংলা হাদিসের ইউনিকোড সফটওয়্যার। যা সম্পুর্ণ অফলাইন ভিত্তিক সফটওয়্যার। এখানে আপনি পাবেন ৫০ হাজারেরও বেশি হাদিস। ইসলামি বই, অডিও হাদিস সহ, <br />বিভিন্ন ইসলামি স্কলারদের প্রশ্ন-উত্তর পর্ব। এখান থেকে যে কোন হাদিস কপি করা যায় যা ব্লগ বা প্রবন্ধে রেফারেন্স হিসাবে ব্যবহার করা যাবে। <br />সফটওয়্যারটি সম্পূর্ন ১০০% ফ্রি। ডাউনলোড এবং শেয়ার করুন সাদকায়ে জারিয়া হাসিল করুন। <br />#কি_ভাবে_এই_সফটওয়্যারটি ডাউনলোড, ইনষ্ট্রল এবং ব্যাবহার করবেন তা জানার জন্য এই ভিডিএটি দেখুন। </span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PB2Ynm6Oo</a> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">সফটওয়্যারটিতে রয়েছে-</span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;">১। হাদীসে কুদসী (الحديث القدسي)- ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৬৩টি) <br />২। সহিহ বুখারী (صحيح البخاري) – ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৭৫৬৩ টি) <br />৩। সহিহ মুসলিম (صحيح مسلم) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৭২৫৩টি) <br />৪। সুনান আবু দাউদ (سنن أبي داود) – ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৫২৭৪টি) <br />৫। জামে তিরমিজী (جامع الترمذي) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৩৯৫৬টি) <br />৬। ইবনে মাজাহ (سنن ابن ماجه) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৪৩৪১টি) <br />৭। হাদীস সম্ভার -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৩৯০২টি) <br />৮। সুনান নাসাঈ (سنن النسائي) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৫৭৫৮টি) <br />৯। মুয়াত্তা মালিক (موطأ مالك) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৮৮৪ টি) <br />১০। মুসনাদে আহমদ (مسند أحمد)-ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-২৫৯৯টি) <br />১১। মিশকাতে যয়িফ ও জাল -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৩৩৩টি) <br />১২। মিশকাতুল মাসাবিহ (مشكاة المصابيح) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৪১৬৩টি) <br />১৩। আদাবুল মুফরাদ (الأدب المفرد) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৩২২টি) <br />১৪। সিলসিলাতু যয়িফাহ (سلسلة الضعيفة) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-২০০০টি) <br />১৫। সিলসিলা সাহীহাহ (سلسلة الصحيحة) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১০০০টি) <br />১৬। রিয়াযুস স্বলেহীন (رياض الصالحين) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৯০৫টি) <br />১৭। বুলূগুল মারাম (بلوغ المرام) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৫৬৮টি) <br />১৮। হিসনুল মুসলিম (هيسنول مسلم) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-২৬৭টি) <br />১৯। লূ-লূ ওয়াল মারজান (اللؤلؤ والمرجان) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১৯০৫টি) <br />২০। ৪০ হাদীস (الأربعون النووية) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৪২টি) <br />২১। যুযউল কিরআত (جزء القراءة ) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৩০০টি) <br />২২। শামায়েলে মোহাম্মদীয়া (الشمائل المحمدية) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-৪১৫টি) <br />২৩। যুযউ রফউল ইয়াদাঈন (جوجول رافليادين) -ডাটাবেজের কাজ সম্পন্ন হয়েছে- (হাদীস-১১৮টি) <br />২৪। সুনান আদ-দারবকুতনি- (হাদীস-১৫৪৪টি) <br />২৫। আত-তারগীব ওয়াততারহীব- (হাদীস-২০০টি) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">#কি_ভাবে_এই_সফটওয়্যারটি</a> ডাউনলোড, ইনষ্ট্রল এবং ব্যাবহার করবেন তা জানার জন্য Uporer ভিডিওটি দেখুন।<br /><br />ডাউনলোড ওয়েবসাইট-</span> <b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">www.hadithsoftware.net</span></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">----Screenshot-------</span></b></div><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcKqaP93vvhi-eVRI7_vzZN5F2GVET4GIMkhEPN3ry2H5ZE7O-Etq5AjEkIDGrJVV_wtw4w87i5ZxL3iL1eTNKvC2lvI3B-1ZyeGQfPcTH3CY7uu86y3JUX8OUBxMwCUChq9qWIIVLBLoz/w641-h317/hadith+software+1.png" width="641" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhYzrV3eDjt1Wtb_QeedaADd1PV1ok9AUXczt1me2dG7UAiDbadimeOq_EcjsBppH4SvvzoNsJCbU15UEQoo4w7RzLYrOFBi9c386FVXCoovo1pv5fXeNz-Ce7uNczlGDxBy04viuRkCW/w663-h322/hadith+software-+DBHT+2.png" width="663" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3G_rmLz-dSCrcQHscNT-a6NEIL98gumdj0bvyL_vAFcDI09It5BoKdGPdJP80z7vZ28mjtegou2jK6TLsP53PdrOwkYbc6HrW6aoT4ItHPHEcmyExxTcm5N7FCXXZORgfISrdoANlXXUD/w649-h315/Hadith+Software-+DBHT+3.png" width="649" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSGTMvg45t6B4NlDqtpRJTGZVuk73W0A2dio5la5WKzhjbTG_cX83KP049aTakCO_OCvCom4lWKc83BJM_PQnR34NnumIIdnudX_ktYlzmG_I_ApbXHfd2rI9CgeU7xU1V0PAu9BwE77R/w646-h306/Hadith+Software-+DBHT+4.png" width="646" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">--------SUPPORT-------</span></b></div>* WE SUPPORT 24/7 FREE IF you face installation problem just install TEAM VIEWER and contact us and give us your team viewer we will try our best inshallah <br /><br /> Support Url: https://hadithsoftware.net/?page_id=121 <br /><br /> Support Email: rub_sanjida@yahoo.com <br /><br /> -Support Phone- <br /><br />- 01870268226-sharear azam <br />- 01816671264- sarawer jalal <br />- 01710446112- Sayeduzzaman <br />- 01739914929 - Sujon Forazi <br /><br />* Website:- www.hadithsoftware.net <br />* FB/DBHT1 <br /><br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">-----Donation to us----------</span> </b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">01870268226-Nagad<br /><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b>---Bank---</b></span><br />Shahrear Azam, A / C-No.: 300812100018192, <br />Chwakbazar br. Shahjalal Islami Bank, Chittagong, Bangladesh<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><div data-mce-style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="hadith software" class="size-full wp-image-864 alignleft" height="263" src="https://hadithsoftware.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/HADITH-SOFTWARE.png" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="292" /></span></div><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">HADITH SOFTWARE</span></b></div><div data-mce-style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Assalamualaikum, Alhamdulillah. All praise is due to Allah who has given the Tawfiq to DBHT (Digital Bangla Hadith Team) to present this software at your service in the first three languages of the world (Arabic, Bengali and English). Many expatriates including Bangladesh have helped us in this work. Since our first version came out, it is normal to have errors. Hopefully, we will be able to inform you about the new BIG updated version in a few months inshallah. Respected brothers and sisters from different parts of the country are working tirelessly for the creation of software and most of them are students. Our aim is to create completely free Bengali Hadith Unicode software for 26 crore Bengali speakers and Unicode software in Arabic and English for 650 crore people which we know is the first in the world. </div><div data-mce-style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">----System requirement----</span></b> Support all type of windows xp3,windows 7,8,10. 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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Medical Benefits from Circumcision</b></span><br />
<i>by Dr. Brian J. Morris</i> -from Circ-Online<br />
<a href="http://muslim.zohosites.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdo8syAU8A0FlzgwBQjGHF27For6CHDZZlo87rP6PsN6axxGANma2OPKfsEZTsBKMGDTFYCvtD4og6cjp1Qn0FBFF6842AqMzopPJrADY_kdzm1XyphfASsphIUaDbpfX5mFKjv3wkTNk/s400/26334_10151303859832027_38998532_n.jpg" width="400" /></a>Circumcision has historically been a topic of emotive and often irrational debate. At least part of the reason is that a sex organ is involved. (Compare, for example, ear piercing.) During the past two decades the medical profession have tended to advise parents not to circumcise their baby boys. In fact there have even been reports of harrassment by medical professionals of new mothers, especially those belonging to religious groups that practice circumcision, in an attempt to stop them having this procedure carried out. Such attitudes are a far cry from the situation years ago when baby boys were circumcised routinely in Australia. But over the past 20 years the rate has declined to as low as 10%. <br />
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However, a reversal of this trend is starting to occur. In the light of an increasing volume of medical scientific evidence (many publications cited below) pointing to the benefits of neonatal circumcision a new policy statement was formulated by a working party of the Australian College of Paediatrics in August 1995 and adopted by the College in May 1996 [2] . In this document medical practitioners are now urged to fully inform parents of the benefits of having their male children circumcised. Similar recommendations were made recently by the Canadian Paediatric Society who also conducted an evaluation of the literature, although concluded that the benefits and harms were very evenly balanced. As discussed below the American College of Pediatrics has moved far closer to an advocacy position. <br />
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In the present article I would like to focus principally on the protection afforded by circumcision against infections, including sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). I might add that I am a university academic who teaches medical and science students and who does medical research, including that involving genital cancer virology. I am not Jewish, nor a medical practitioner or lawyer, so have no religious bias or medico-legal concerns that might get in the way of a rational discussion of this issue. <br />
<a name='more'></a>The increased risk of infection may be a consequence of the fact that the foreskin presents the penis with a larger surface area, the moist skin under it represents a thinner epidermal barrier than the drier, more cornified skin of the circumcised penis, the presence of a prepuce is likely to result in greater microtrauma during sexual intercourse and, as one might expect, the warm, moist mucosal environment under the foreskin favours growth of micro-organisms. <br />
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In the 1950s and 60s 90% of boys in the USA and Australia were circumcised soon after birth. The major benefits at that time were seen as improved lifetime genital hygiene, elimination of phimosis (inability to retract the foreskin) and prevention of penile cancer. The trend not to circumcise started about 20 years ago, after the American Academy of Paediatrics Committee for the Newborn stated, in 1971, that there are ?no valid medical indications for circumcision?. In 1975 this was modified to ?no absolute valid ... ?, which remained in the 1983 statement, but in 1989 it changed significantly to ?New evidence has suggested possible medical benefits ...? [49] . <br />
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Dr Edgar Schoen, Chairman of the Task Force on Circumcision of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has stated that the benefits of routine circumcision of newborns as a preventative health measure far exceed the risks of the procedure [48] . During the period 1985-92 there was an increase in the frequency of postnewborn circumcision and during that time Schoen points out that the association of lack of circumcision and urinary tract infection has moved from ?suggestive? to ?conclusive? [48] . At the same time associations with other infectious agents, including HIV, have been demonstrated. In fact he goes on to say that ?Current newborn circumcision may be considered a preventative health measure analogous to immunization in that side effects and complications are immediate and usually minor, but benefits accrue for a lifetime? [48] . <br />
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Benefits included: a decrease in physical problems such as phimosis [36] , reduction in balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the head of the penis) [17] , reduced urinary tract infections, fewer problems with erections at puberty, decreased sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), elimination of penile cancer in middle-aged men and, in addition, in older men, a decrease in urological problems and infections [reviewed in: 2, 18, 30, 44, 47, 49]. Therefore the benefits are different at different ages. <br />
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Neonatologists only see the problems of the operation itself. However, urologists who deal with the problems of uncircumcised men cannot understand why all newborns are not circumcised [47, 48] . The demand for circumcision later in childhood has increased, but, with age, problems, such as anaesthetic risk, are higher. Thus Schoen states ?Current evidence concerning the life-time medical benefit of newborn circumcision favours an affirmative choice? [48] . <br />
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In a letter written by Dr Schoen to Dr Terry Russell in Brisbane in 1994 Schoen derides an organization known as ?NOCIRC? for their use of ?distortions, anecdotes and testimonials to try to influence professional and legislative bodies and the public, stating that in the past few years they have become increasingly desperate and outrageous as the medical literature has documented the benefits. For example they have compared circumcision with female genital mutilation, which is equivalent to cutting off the penis. In 1993 the rate of circumcision had risen to 80% in the USA and Schoen suggests that ?Perhaps NOCIRC has decided to export their ?message? to Australia since their efforts are proving increasingly futile in the US?. He also noted that when Chairman of the Task Force his committee was bombarded with inaccurate and misleading communications from this group. Another of these groups is ?UNCIRC?, which promotes procedures to reverse circumcision, by, for example, stretching the loose skin on the shaft of the retracted penis. Claimed benefits of ?increased sensitivity? in reality appear to be a result of the friction of the foreskin, whether intact or newly created, on the moist or sweaty glans and undersurface of the prepuce in the unaroused state and would obviously in the ?re-uncircumcised? penis have nothing to do with an increase in touch receptors. The sensitivity during sexual intercourse is in fact identical, according to men circumcised as adults. <br />
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Another respected authority is Dr Tom Wiswell, who states ?As a pediatrician and neonatologist, I am a child advocate and try to do what is best for children. For many years I was an outspoken opponent of circumcision ... I have gradually changed my opinion? [56, 57] . This ability to keep an open mind on the issue and to make a sound judgement on the balance of all available information is to his credit ? he did change his mind! <br />
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The complication rates of having or not having the procedure have been examined. Amongst 136,000 boys born in US army hospitals between 1980 and 1985, 100,000 were circumcised and 193 (0.19%) had complications, with no deaths [58] . Of the 36,000 who were not circumcised the complication rate was 0.24% and there were 2 deaths [58] . In 1989 of the 11,000 circumcisions performed at New York?s Sloane Hospital, only 6 led to complications, none of which were fatal [44] . Also no adverse psychological aftermath has been demonstrated [46] . Cortisol levels have registered an increase during and shortly after the procedure, indicating that the baby is not unaware of the procedure in its unanaesthetized state and one has to weigh up the need to inflict this short term pain in the context of a lifetime of gain from prevention or reduction of subsequent problems. Anaesthetic creams and other means appear to be at least partially effective in reducing trauma and some babies show no signs of distress at all when the procedure is performed without anaesthetic. <br />
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The proponents of not circumcising nevertheless stress that lifelong penile hygiene is required. This acknowledges that something harmful or
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unpleasant is happening under the prepuce. Moreover, a study of British schoolboys found that penile hygiene does not exist [44] . Furthermore, Dr Terry Russell, writing in the Medical Observer states ?What man after a night of passion is going to perform penile hygiene before rolling over and snoring the night away (with pathogenic organisms multiplying in the warm moist environment under the prepuce)? [44] . <br />
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The reasons for circumcision, at least in a survey carried out as part of a study at Sydney Hospital, were: 3% for religious reasons, 1-2% for medical, with the remainder presumably being ?to be like dad? or a preference of one or both parents for whatever reason [16] . The actual proportion of men who were circumcised when examined at this clinic was 62%. Of those studied, 95% were Caucasian, with younger men just as likely to be circumcised as older men. In Adelaide a similar proportion has been noted, with 55% of younger men being circumcised. In Britain, however, the rate is only 7-10%, much like Europe, and in the USA, as indicated above, the rate of circumcision has always been high [16] . <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Neonatal urinary tract infections </b></span><br />
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A study by Wiswell of 400,000 newborns over the period 1975-84 found that the uncircumcised had an 11-fold higher incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) [58] . During this decade the frequency of circumcision in the USA decreased from 84% to 74% and this decrease was associated with an increase in rate of UTI [61] . UTI was lower in circumcised, but higher in uncircumcised. In a 1982 series 95% of UTI cases were in uncircumcised [60] . A study by Roberts in 1986 found that 4% of uncircumcised boys got UTI, compared with 0.4% of girls and 0.2% of circumcised boys [42] . This indicated a 20-fold higher risk for uncircumcised boys. In a 1993 study by Wiswell of 200,000 infants born between 1985 and 1990, 1000 got UTI in their first year of life [59] . The number was equal for boys and girls, but was 10-times higher for uncircumcised boys. Of these 23% had bacteraemia. The infection can travel up the urinary tract to affect the kidney and higher rate of problems such as pyelonephritis is seen in uncircumcised children [43, 52] . These and other reports [e.g., 21, 43, 52] all point to the benefits of circumcision in reducing UTI. <br />
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Indeed, Wiswell performed a meta-analysis of all 9 previous studies and found that every one indicated an increase in UTI in the uncircumcised [59] . The average was 12-fold higher and the range was 5 to 89-fold, with 95% confidence intervals of 11-14 [59] . Meta-analyses by others have reached similar conclusions. Other studies, including one of men with an average age of 30 years, have indicated that circumcision also reduces UTI in adulthood [51] . The fact that the bacterium E. coli , which is pathogenic to the urinary tract, has been shown to be capable of adhering to the foreskin, satisfies one of the criteria for causality [52, 62, and refs in 18]. Since the absolute risk of UTI in uncircumcised boys is approx. 1 in 25 (0.05) and in circumcised boys is 1 in 500 (0.002), the absolute risk reduction is 0.048. Thus 20 baby boys need to be <a href="http://www.quranic-science.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjK97idIjBZwi2LJywsOSPwJNWhYUzCyk4p7Db2fg8htvDpiCvT1LMFF7cm0iWjudfJGt1DqnEdJNE9FN-NUuZl2WiRtQ6hcdWavpmUSprltBo5T2KeHtHvz_72QsWlF13aEqLX8Vw-rE/s400/11309_410785012347660_1294191853_n.jpg" width="400" /></a>circumcised to prevent one UTI. However, the potential seriousness and pain of UTI, which can in rare cases even lead to death, should weigh heavily on the minds of parents. The complications of UTI that can lead to death are: kidney failure, meningitis and infection of bone marrow. The data thus show that much suffering has resulted from leaving the foreskin intact. Lifelong genital hygiene in an attempt to reduce such infections is also part of the price that would have to be paid if the foreskin were to be retained. However, given the difficulty in keeping bacteria at bay in this part of the body [38, 48] , not performing circumcision would appear to be far less effective than having it done in the first instance [48] . <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Sexually-transmitted diseases </b></span><br />
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Early studies showed higher rates of gonococcal and nonspecific urethritis in uncircumcised men [39, 48] . Recent studies have yielded similar findings. In addition, the earlier work showed higher chancroid, syphilis, papillomavirus and herpes [53] . However, there were methodological problems with the design of these studies, leading to criticisms. As a result there is still no overwhelming agreement. In 1947 a study of 1300 consecutive patients in a Canadian Army unit showed that being uncircumcised was associated with a 9-fold higher risk of syphilis and 3-times more gonorrhea [55] . At the University of Western Australia a 1983 study showed twice as much herpes and gonorrhea, 5-times more candidiasis and 5-fold greater incidence of syphilis [39] . In South Australia a study in 1992 showed that uncircumcised men had more chlamidia (odds ratio 1.3) and gonoccocal infections (odds ratio 2.1). Similarly in 1988 a study in Seattle of 2,800 heterosexual men reported higher syphilis and gonnorrhea in uncircumcised men, but no difference in herpes, chlamidia and non-specific urethritis (NSU). Like this report, a study in 1994 in the USA, found higher gonnorhea and syphilis, but no difference in other common STDs [12] . In the same year Dr Basil Donovan and associates reported the results of a study of 300 consecutive heterosexual male patients attending Sydney STD Centre at Sydney Hospital [16] . They found no difference in genital herpes, seropositivity for HSV-2, genital warts and NSU. As mentioned above, 62% were circumcised and the two groups had a similar age, number of partners and education. Gonorrhea, syphilis and hepatitis B were too uncommon in this Sydney study for them to conclude anything about these. Thus on the bulk of evidence it would seem that at least some STDs may be more common in the uncircumcised, but this conclusion is by no means absolute and the incidence may be influenced by factors such as the degree of genital hygiene, availability of running water and socioeconomic group being studied. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Cancer of the penis </b></span><br />
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The incidence of penile cancer in the USA is 1 per 100,000 men per year (i.e., 750-1000 cases annually) and mortality rate is 25-33% [27, 31] . It represents approximately 1% of all malignancies in men in the USA. This data has to be viewed, moreover, in the context of the high proportion of circumcised men in the USA, especially in older age groups, and the age group affected, where older men represent only a portion of the total male population. In a study in Melbourne published in Australasian Radiology in 1990, although 60% of affected men were over 60 years of age, 40% were under 60 [45] . In 5 major series in the USA since 1932, not one man with penile cancer had been circumcised neonatally [31] , i.e., this disease only occurs in uncircumcised men and, less commonly, in those circumcised after the newborn period. The proportion of penile malignancies as a fraction of total cancers in uncircumcised men would thus be considerable. The predicted life-time risk has been estimated as 1 in 600 in the USA and 1 in 900 in Denmark [27] . In under-developed countries the incidence is higher: approx. 3-6 cases per 100,000 per year [27] . <br />
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The so-called ?high-risk? papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (HPV 16/18) are found in a large proportion of cases and there is good reason to suspect that they are involved in the causation of this cancer, as is true for most cases of cervical cancer (see below). HPV 16 and 18 are, moreover, more common in uncircumcised males [35] . These types of HPV produce flat warts that are normally only visible by application of dilute acetic acid (vinegar) to the penis and the data on high-risk HPVs should not be confused with the incidence figures for genital warts, which although large and readily visible, are caused by the relatively benign HPV types 6 and 11. Other factors, such as poor hygiene and other STDs have been suspected as contributing to penile cancer as well [8, 31] . <br />
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In Australia between 1960 and 1966 there were 78 deaths from cancer of the penis and 2 from circumcision. (Circumcision fatalities these days are virtually unknown.) At the Peter McCallum Cancer Institute 102 cases of penile cancer were seen between 1954 and 1984, with twice as many in the latter decade compared with the first. Moreover, several authors have linked the rising incidence of penile cancer to a decrease in the number of neonatal circumcisions [13, 45] . It would thus seem that ?prevention by circumcision in infancy is the best policy?. <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Cervical cancer in female partners of uncircumcised men </span></b><br />
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A number of studies have documented higher rates of cervical cancer in women who have had one or more male sexual partners who were uncircumcised. These studies have to be looked at critically, however, to see to what extent cultural and other influences might be contributing in groups with different circumcision practices. In a study of 5000 cervical and 300 penile cancer cases in Madras between 1982 and 1990 the incidence was low amongst Muslim women, when compared with Hindu and Christian, and was not seen at all in Muslim men [22] . In a case-control study of 1107 Indian women with cervical cancer, sex with uncircumcised men or those circumcised after the age of 1 year was reported in 1993 to be associated with a 4-fold higher risk of cervical cancer, after controlling for factors such as age, age of first intercourse and education [1] . Another study published in 1993 concerning various types of cancer in the Valley of Kashmir concluded that universal male circumcision in the majority community was responsible for the low rate of cervical cancer compared with the rest of India [14] . In Israel, a 1994 report of 4 groups of women aged 17-60 found that gynaecologically healthy Moshav residents had no HPV 16/18, whereas healthy Kibbutz residents had a 1.8% incidence [24] . Amongst those with gynaecological complaints HPV 16/18 was found in 9% of Jewish and 12% of non-Jewish women. HPV types 16 and 18 cause penile intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) and a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987 found that women with cervical cancer were more likely to have partners with PIN, the male equivalent of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) [6] . Thus the epidemic of cervical cancer in Australia, and indeed most countries in the world, would appear to be due at least in part to the uncircumcised male and would therefore be expected to get even worse as the large proportion that were born in the past 10-20 years and not circumcised reach sexual maturity. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>AIDS virus </b></span><br />
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In the USA the estimated risk of HIV per heterosexual exposure is 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000. If one partner is HIV positive and otherwise healthy then a single act of unprotected vaginal sex carries a 1 in 300 risk for a woman and as low as a 1 in 1000 risk for a man [9] . (The rates are very much higher for unprotected anal sex and intravenous injection). In Africa, however, the rate of HIV infection is up to 10% in some cities. (A possible reason for this big difference will be discussed later.) In Nairobi it was first noticed that among 340 men being treated for STDs they were 3-times as likely to be HIV positive if they had genital ulcers or were uncircumcised (11% of these men had HIV) [50] . Subsequently another report showed that amongst 409 African ethnic groups spread over 37 countries the geographical distribution of circumcision practices indicated a correlation of lack of circumcision and high incidence of AIDS [7] . In 1990 Moses in International Journal of Epidemiology reported that amongst 700 African societies involving 140 locations and 41 countries there was a considerably lower incidence of HIV in those localities where circumcision was practiced [33, 34] . Truck drivers, who generally exhibit more frequent prostitute contact, have shown a higher rate of HIV if uncircumcised. Interestingly, in a West African setting, men who were circumcised but had residual foreskin were more likely to be HIV-2 positive than those in whom circumcision was complete [40] . <br />
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Of 26 cross-sectional studies, 18 have reported statistically significant association [e.g., 15, 23, 25, 54], by univariate and multivariate analysis, between the presence of the foreskin and HIV infection, and 4 reported a trend. The findings have, moreover, led various workers such as Moses and Caldwell to propose that circumcision be used as an important intervention strategy in order to reduce AIDS [9, 19, 23, 26, 32-34]. <br />
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Perhaps the most interesting study of the risk of HIV infection imposed by having a foreskin is that by Cameron, Plummer and associates published as a large article in Lancet in 1989 [10] . This had the advantage of being prospective. It was conducted in Nairobi. These workers followed HIV negative men until they became infected. The men were visiting prostitutes, numbering approx. 1000, amongst whom there had been an explosive increase in the incidence of HIV from 4% in 1981 to 85% in 1986. These men were thus at high risk of exposure to HIV, as well as other STDs. From March to December 1987, 422 men were enrolled into the study. Of these, 51% had presented with genital ulcer disease (89% chancroid, 4% syphilis, 5% herpes) and the other 49% with urethritis (68% being gonorrhea). 12% were initially positive for HIV-1. Amongst the whole group, 27% were not circumcised. They were followed up each 2 weeks for 3 months and then monthly until March 1988. During this time 8% of 293 men seroconverted (i.e., 24 men), the mean time being 8 weeks. These displayed greater prostitute contact per month (risk ratio = 3), more presented with genital ulcers (risk ratio = 8; P <0.001) and more were uncircumcised (risk ratio = 10; P <0.001). Logistic regression analysis indicated that the risk of seroconversion was independently associated with being uncircumcised (risk ratio = 8.2; P <0.0001), genital ulcers (risk ratio = 4.7; P = 0.02) and regular prostitute contact (risk ratio = 3.2; P = 0.02). The cumulative frequency of seroconversion was 18% and was only 2% for men with no risk factors, compared to 53% for men with both risk factors. Only one circumcised man with no ulcer seroconverted. Thus 98% of seroconversion was associated with either or both cofactors. In 65% there appeared to be additive synergy, the reason being that ulcers increase infectivity for HIV. This involves increased viral shedding in the female genital tract of women with ulcers, where HIV-1 has been isolated from surface ulcers in the genital tract of HIV-1 infected women. <br />
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It has been suggested that the foreskin could physically trap HIV-infected vaginal secretions and provide a more hospitable environment for the infectious innoculum. Also, the increased surface area, traumatic physical disruption during intercourse and inflammation of the glans penis (balanitis) could aid in recruitment of target cells for HIV-1. The port of entry could potentially be the glans, subprepuce and/or urethra. In a circumcised penis the dry, cornified skin may prevent entry and account for the findings. <br />
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The reason for the big difference in apparent rate of transmission of HIV in Africa and Asia, where heterosexual exposure has led to a rapid spread through these populations and is the main method of transmission, compared with the very slow rate of penetration into the heterosexual community in the USA and Australia, now appears to be related at least in part to a difference in the type of HIV-1 itself [29] . In 1995 an article in Nature Medicine discussed findings concerning marked differences in the properties of different HIV-1 subtypes in different geographical locations [37] . A class of HIV-1 termed ?clade E? is prevalent in Asia and differs from the ?clade B? found in developed countries in being highly capable of infecting Langerhans cells found in the foreskin, so accounting for its ready transmission across mucosal membranes. The Langerhans cells are part of the immune system and in turn carry the HIV to the T-cells, whose numbers are severely depleted as a key feature of AIDS. The arrival of the Asian strain in Australia was reported in Nov 1995 and has the potential to utilise the uncircumcised male as a vehicle for rapid spread through the heterosexual community of this country in a similar manner as it has done in Asia. It could thus be a time-bomb about to go off and should be a major concern for health officials. <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">To summarize: <br /><br />Lack of circumcision: </span></b><br />
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Is the biggest risk factor for heterosexually-acquired AIDS virus infection in men (8-times higher risk by itself, and even higher when lesions from STDs are added in). <br />
Is responsible for a 12-fold higher risk of urinary tract infections. <br />
Carries a higher risk of death in the first year of life (from complications of urinary tract infections: kidney failure, meningitis and infection of bone marrow). <br />
One in ~600-900 uncircumcised men will die from cancer of the penis or require at least partial penile amputation as a result. (In contrast, penile cancer never occurs in men circumcised at birth). (Data from studies in the USA, Denmark and Australia, which are not to be confused with the often quoted, but misleading, annual incidence figures of 1 in 100,000). <br />
Often leads to balanitis (inflammation of the glans), phimosis (inability to retract the foreskin) and paraphimosis (constriction of the penis by a tight foreskin). Up to 18% of uncircumcised boys will develop one of these by 8 years of age, whereas all are unknown in the circumcised. <br />
Means problems that may result in a need for circumcision late in life: complication risk = 1 in 100 (compared with 1 in 1000 in the newborn). <br />
Is associated with higher incidence of cervical cancer in the female partners of uncircumcised men. <br />
There is no evidence of any long-term psychological harm arising from circumcision. The risk of damage to the penis is extremely rare and avoidable by using a competent, experienced doctor. Surgical methods use a procedure that protects the penis during excision of the foreskin. As an alternative, for those who might prefer it, a device (PlastiBell) is in use that clamps the foreskin, which then falls off after a few days, and so eliminates the need to actually cut the foreskin off [20] . For some, cultural or religious beliefs dictate the method. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Sociological aspects </b></span><br />
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Finally, a brief mention of other findings relating to circumcision in the setting of Australia. <br />
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In a survey of circumcised vs uncircumcised men and their partners that was conducted by Sydney scientist James Badger [4, 5] (who regards himself as neutral on the issue of circumcision) it was found that: <br />
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18% of uncircumcised males underwent circumcision later in life anyway. <br />
21% of uncircumcised men who didn't, nevertheless wished they were circumcised. (There were also almost as many men who wished they hadn?t been circumcised and it could be that at least some men of either category may have been seeking a scapegoat for their sexual or other problems. In addition, this would no doubt be yet another thing parents could be blamed for by their children, whatever their decision was when the child was born.) <br />
No difference in sexual performance (consistent with Masters & Johnson). <br />
Slightly higher sexual activity in circumcised men. <br />
No difference in frequency of sexual intercourse for older uncircumcised vs. circumcised men. <br />
Men circumcised as adults were very pleased with the result. The local pain when they awoke from the anaesthetic was quickly relieved by pain killers (needed only for one day), and all had returned to normal sexual relations within 2 weeks, with no decrease in sensitivity of the penis and claims of 'better sex'. (Badger?s findings are, moreover, consistent with every discussion I have ever had with men circumcised as adults. The only case to the contrary was a testimonial in a letter I received in the mail from a member of UNCIRC.) <br />
Women with circumcised lovers were more likely to reach a simultaneous climax. <br />
Women with uncircumcised lovers were 3 times as likely to fail to reach orgasm. (These data could, however, possibly reflect behaviours of uncircumcised males that might belong to lower socio-economic classes and/or ethnic groups whose attitudes may differ from groups in which circumcision is more common.) <br />
Circumcision was favoured by women for appearance and hygiene. (Furthermore, some women were nauseated by the smell of the uncircumcised penis, where, as mentioned above bacteria and other micro-organisms proliferate under the foreskin.) <br />
The uncircumcised penis was found by women to be easier to elicit orgasm by hand. <br />
The circumcised penis was favoured by women for oral sex. <br />
Why are human males born with a foreskin? <br />
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The foreskin probably protected the head of the penis from long grass, shrubbery, etc when humans wore no clothes, where evolutionarily our basic physiology and psychology are little different than our cave-dwelling ancestors. However, Dr Guy Cox from The University of Sydney has recently supplemented this suggestion with a novel idea, namely that the foreskin could be the male equivalent of the hymen, and served as an impediment to sexual intercourse during adolescence [11] . The ritual removal of the foreskin in diverse human traditional cultures, ranging from Muslims to Aboriginal Australians, is a sign of civilization in that human society acquired the ability to control through education and religion the age at which sexual intercourse could begin. Food for thought and discussion! <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Conclusion </b></span><br />
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The information available today will assist medical practitioners, health workers and parents by making advice and choices concerning circumcision much more informed. Although there are benefits to be had at any age, they are greater the younger the child. Issues of ?informed consent? may be analogous to those parents have to consider for other medical procedures, such as whether or not to immunize their child. The question to be answered is ?do the benefits outweigh the risks?. When considering each factor in isolation there could be some difficulty in choosing. However, when viewed as a whole, in my opinion the answer to whether to circumcise a male baby is ?yes?. Nevertheless, everybody needs to weigh up all of the pros and cons for themselves and make their own best decision. I trust that the information I have provided in this article will help in the decision-making process. Brian J. Morris, PhD DSc Fax: +61 2 9351 2058 <br />
University Academic (in medical sciences) Email: brianm@physiol.usyd.edu.au <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Kosova & Kashmir: Muslims Must Share the Blame</span></b><br />
As salaamu alaikum <br />
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Twenty-something years ago, when my parents reverted to Islam, I was an adolescent teen. I was a child of the black nationalist/liberation movement of the 60's, who refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance to the US flag. This patriotic display of love for massa and his 400 years of brutalizing us, was customary and mandatory at the start of public school classes in those days. I always felt that black children should be exempt from it because the constitution at that time (and still does) defined blacks as three-fifths of a human being. I was once expelled from elementary school for convincing the entire class to pledge allegiance by placing their hands on their butts instead of over their hearts. <br />
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I was the kid on the playground who challenged the school bully saying "you can't whip me 'cause I'm a revolutionary!".....I got whipped often.... but I was still a revolutionary. While the other kids wore cartoon stickers and buttons, I wore "Free Huey" and "Africa for Africans" buttons. <br />
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I was the kid who won the school speech contest with my own anti-Vietnam War and memorial tribute to the innocent victims of the Mai Lai massacre. When school officials convinced me to change the topic to a more palatable one for the citywide DAR- (Daughters of American Revolution) sponsored contest, I submitted a speech to the lily-white, ultra-conservative group on Benjamin Franklin, only to scrub it and recite the anti-Vietnam War speech once I got on stage before the judges and audience. Needless to say, I was disqualified and summarily escorted from the auditorium...but I had my victory...because afterall.....I was a revolutionary. <br />
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I thought the revolution started in 1969. I didn't realize that the 1969 riots in Detroit were just that until I was in high school and happened to see a copy of the Congressional Committee Report. My memories of those fateful days and nights were re-kindled as I read the report. Memories filled with visions of being shoved under a table while the house filled with gun toting, black beret-wearing men and women who were shooting out of the windows at someone or something on the street...daylight brought visions of armored cars and tanks full of white soldiers patrolling through my neighborhood shouting and pointing weapons in what was a 24-hour vigil. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Nearly a decade later, I'm experiencing culture shock, as I sit on the floor of a masjid full of people that don't look or talk like me. They are unbelievably courteous and friendly. They hug and kiss me a lot, and even hold my hand. Soon I see a box being passed around, it has Arabic writing on it. I don't understand this foreign language but I see men putting money into it. So I reach into my pocket and pull out a dollar and place it in the box. Minutes later I see another box being passed around. For a moment, it reminded me of the times my grandmother would take me to church and the how I complained about the collection plate being passed around four and five times during one service. I said to myself "here we go again.... another one of these money-grabbing schemes in the name of religion". <br />
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As the second box eased closer to me, I reached into my pocket and pulled out another dollar. That's when I saw it. On the box was the same kind of strange script that I could not understand. However, underneath the script was a drawing of an opened book, a rifle, and a grenade. I realized then that there was another component to this strange religion. I realized that my parents had not "sold-out". They didn't abandon the revolution/liberation movement. They "graduated" and added the one component that was missing from the movement all of those years....Islam. <br />
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Soon I would learn that there is no struggle (jihad) greater than for the pleasure of Allah....for raising the banner of Tawheed....for the liberation of his people from institutions and debilitating systems of man and establishing his sovereignty in the land. <br />
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Recently, some twenty-something years later, I visited the same masjid. I spent a few days with the jamaat. The place has changed a lot in 20 years. The believers have changed. They regularly host kaffir politicians there now. They even distributed a list of their approved candidates. They put a Jewish lawyer at the top of the ticket for governor and then distributed the list of candidates (all of whom are kaffir) as the "Muslim slate." <br />
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I witnessed one such gathering there that really surprised me. A visiting Shaikh was addressing the audience. The mayor of the city, who arrived late, entered the meeting hall, and in the middle of the Shaikh's talk, the place erupted in applause and standing ovation for the mayor. <br />
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They don't raise money for weapons anymore. Instead they lobby the kaffir politicians and beg them to use their weapons and sacrifice the lives of their beloved sons and daughters to defend the Muslims. However, they do appease their guilt-conscious somewhat by throwing money at agencies that feed and clothe the besieged Muslims. But what about liberation? Where has the liberation box gone? <br />
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In their literature, one of the Christian relief agencies use the phrase "if you give a man a fish you feed him for one day. If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime". <br />
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Muslims should say " If you give a besieged Muslim, food, clothing, and shelter you make him a fed, clothed, and sheltered slave. If you give him Quran and Sunnah, a rifle, and a grenade, the besieged Muslim will liberate himself....feed himself, cloth himself, and not be put out of his own house!" <br />
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Muslims must re-discover and implement jihad bis saif, as well as the support and defense of mujahideen as serious obligatory duties in this Deen. We must stop making excuses for that which Allah has ordained in Qur'an and that which his Messenger utilized in his seerah. We must stop permitting some of our spineless Muslim leaders from making excuses and adopting an apologetic posture towards jihad bis saif as well. <br />
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We must develop and promote the attitude that it is an honor and blessing to support and defend the mujahideen. If necessary we must make seventy excuses for them and not permit the Zionist media and the Zionist-occupied governments and their stooges in Muslim nations to castrate these mujahideen from the body of the believers. We must also beware of madhaabs and those anti-madhaab folks who are just as dangerous. Their arrogance and clique mentality and exclusivity can effectively cause the naive amongst us to abandon the mujahideen also. More effectively than Zionist media in some cases. <br />
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Our brothers and sisters in Kosova and Kashmir are under some very dire circumstances. Throwing money at the problem will help some but it won't bring about any solution to the crisis. Our mission, just as it should've been in Bosnia, should be a two-pronged mission. Surely there is the humanitarian need that must be met, however, there is also the long-term need for liberation that must also be met. <br />
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In addition to collecting monies, food, medical, and other needed supplies and delivering it to our brothers and sisters we must also mount political pressure on our Islamic leaders at home and on the leaders of the Muslim nation-states. <br />
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We first have to free our leaders from the shackles of petro-dollars and other pimps overseas that have "turned out" so many of them that they can hardly speak a word of their own volition. Those leaders who don't want to be independent of their masters overseas should be replaced one way or the other. <br />
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Free-thinking leaders should organize a mass campaign of protest against those embassies and consulates representing Muslim nation-states who have thus far issued at best, only veiled threats, all the while neglecting to use their armies and weapons to liberate the Muslims of Kosova and Kashmir. <br />
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The least that we can do is what I have done. Fax, write letters or send email to these embassies and consulates demanding that they aid the liberation of Muslims with moral, logistical, and physical support. Is this so hard to do? If we can send faxes to kuffar begging them to bomb our enemies and to rescue our own, we certainly should be able to send them to the Muslim organizations and the representatives of the Muslim nation-states. We must remind them of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah and the consequences that led to it being abolished. We must demand that they declare "null and void" these UN treaties that usurp their sovereignty and aid and abet the kuffar at the expense of the Muslims. These leaders have no authority to make the Muslim populations of their nation-states subservient to these illegal Treaties. <br />
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Understand brothers and sisters, that if the rape and maiming of Muslim girls in Bosnia and Kashmir, the torturous agonizing starvation of Muslims of Iraq, and the abandonment of the Islamic Solution in Philistine has not moved these leaders to do anything, they will need to be pressured. We do this on two fronts.... <br />
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1. the souci-political one - mass protest against the representative bodies of these Muslim nation-states and charging them with capitulation to illegal treaties and abandoning Muslims under siege. Identifying, exposing and protesting against their agents and "money men" in the local Muslim communities. <br />
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2. the physical one - identifying and supporting the legitimate Islamic movements that are simmering in their own homelands. <br />
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As Muslims we must began to understand that these knee-jerk, poorly-thought out and poorly-planned responses that we are so quick to adopt are merely sad imitations of kufr policies and procedures. Are we like the donkey with loads of books on his back? Because he's only carrying the books instead of utilizing them for guidance he is subject to the whims of anyone who comes along and yanks on his bridle. We have Quran, Hadith, and an extensive Islamic history that we can call on to solve most of these problems. <br />
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If my brother has a blister wound I have antiseptics and anti-biotics yet I choose to only clean the wound and give him a bandage, I have only treated the symptom. I've done nothing for his long-term welfare. If we don't act more sensibly towards the long term interests of our brothers and sisters we are part to blame for their suffering. I pray Insha Allah, that we will finally begin to utilize what Allah has blessed us with. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Eight Things I've Learned From You </b></span><br />
[Hatim al asa'ad said to his shiekh] <br />
[ notes from brother Mukhtar's seminar on Dhikr and Raqa'iq, 3/13/99 ] <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>1 </b></span>- People do not bring to the grave that which is beloved to them. <br />
So my beloved is hassana (rewards), which can join me in my grave. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>2</b></span> - People let their nafs (self) be their leader. <br />
I reflected upon the ayaat in the Quran: "..And for such as had restrained their lower desires, their abode will be the garden.." <br />
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So I took jihad against my nafs (self). <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3</b></span> - People protect that which is dear to them. <br />
I reflected upon the ayah: "That which is with you will end, but that which is with Allah will remain forever..' <br />
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So every time something was dear to me, I directed it to Him so that it would be protected forever. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>4</b></span> - People love to relate to wealth, honor, dignity, and prestige. <br />
I reflected upon the ayah: "And the most honored among you are those with taqwaa.." <br />
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So I sought taqwaa, so that I could be honored and dignified by Allah. <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">5 </span></b>- People envy. <br />
I reflected upon the ayah: "And it is We who divided among them their livlihood...' <br />
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So I sought to divorce myself from envy. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>6 </b></span>- People express enmity amongst each other. <br />
I reflected upon the ayah: "Truly shaytaan is your enemy, so treat him as your enemy.." <br />
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So I have no animosity of people, and I make shaytaan my true enemy. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>7</b></span> - People humble and degrade themselves for wealth. <br />
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I reflected on the ayah "And there is not one living creature that is not provided for by Allah.." <br />
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So I occupied myself with what I owe Him, and what I have with Him. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>8 -</b></span> People rely on themselves. <br />
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Instead, I have tawakaltu alAllah (Reliance on Allah). <br />
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Ya Allah if I do not die knowledgeable, then let me die as one seeking knowledge! </div>
Sharear Azamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14750674750420282488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406759819176673821.post-57113614999800097862013-03-24T20:09:00.002-07:002013-03-24T20:09:31.282-07:00Dangers in the Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: red;"><b>Dangers in the Home</b></span><br />
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<i>Book by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid</i><br />
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Praise be to Allaah. We praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own selves and from our evil deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides cannot be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray cannot be guided. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah Alone, with no partner or associate, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. <br />
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Putting things right in the home is a great trust and huge responsibility which every Muslim man and woman should undertake as Allaah commands; they should run the affairs of their homes in accordance with the rules set out by Allaah. One of the ways of achieving this is by ridding the home of evil things. The following aims to highlight some evil things that actually happen in some homes and that have become tools of destruction for the nests in which the future generations of the Muslim ummah are being raised. <br />
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This brief paper highlights some of these evil things, explaining about some haraam things in order to warn about them. It is a gift to every seeker of truth who is looking for methods of change, so that he or she can implement the command of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): ?Whoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand [by taking action], and if he cannot, then with his tongue [by speaking out], and if he cannot, then with his heart [by feeling that it is wrong] ? and that is the weakest of faith.? (Reported by Muslim in his Saheeh, 1/69). <br />
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This discussion expands upon some forbidden or evil matters that have already been mentioned in brief in my book The Muslim Home ? 40 Recommendations. <br />
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I ask Allaah, the Most Generous, Lord of the Mighty Throne, to benefit my Muslim brothers through this book and the previous book. Allaah is the Guide to the Straight Path. <br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Evil things in the Home </b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b> Advice: </b></span><br />
Beware of allowing non-mahram relatives to enter upon the wife in the home when the husband is absent. Some homes are not free of the presence of relatives of the husband who are not mahram for the wife, who <br />
<a name='more'></a>may be living in his home with him because of some social circumstances, such as his brothers who may be students or single. These relatives enter the home without anyone raising an eyebrow, because they are known in the neighbourhood as being relatives of the head of the household, his brothers or nephews or uncles. This relaxed attitude could generate a lot of evil which will earn the wrath of Allaah if it is not controlled and brought within the limits set by Allaah. The basic principle in this matter is the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), ?Beware of entering upon women.? A man from among the Ansaar said, ?O Messenger of Allaah, what do you think about the brother-in-law?? He said, ?The brother-in-law is death!? (Reported by al-Bukhaari, Fath al-Baari, 9/330). <br />
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Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: ?What is referred to in this hadeeth is the husband?s relatives apart from his father and his sons, because those are mahrams for his wife and can be alone with her, so they are not described as death. What is referred to here is his brother, nephew, uncle and cousin, and others who she would be permitted to marry if she were not already married. Usually people take the matter lightly with regard to these relatives, so a brother may be alone with his brother?s wife. Thus he is likened to death, when he should be prevented from being alone with her more than a stranger should.? (Fath al-Baari, 9/331). <br />
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The phrase ?the brother-in-law is death? has a number of meanings, such as:<br />
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That being alone with the brother-in-law may lead to spiritual destruction if she commits sin; <br />
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Or it may lead to death if she commits the immoral act (zina or adultery) and the punishment of stoning is carried out on her; <br />
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Or it may lead to the woman being destroyed if her husband leaves her because his jealousy leads him to divorce her; <br />
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Or it may mean, beware of being alone with a non-mahram woman just as you would beware of death; <br />
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Or it may mean that being alone with a non-mahram woman is as bad as death. <br />
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It was said that it means, let the brother-in-law die rather than be alone with a non-mahram woman, <br />
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All of this stems from the concern of Islam to preserve families and households, and to prevent the tools of destruction reaching them in the first place. Having learned what the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, what do you think now of those husbands who tell their wives, ?If my brother comes and I am not here, let him into the sitting room?, or a wife who tells a guest, ?Go into the sitting room? when there is no one else present in the house? <br />
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To those who raise the issue of trust as an excuse, saying ?I trust my wife, and I trust my brother, or my cousin?, we say: your trust is all well and good, and you should not be suspicious when you have no cause to do so, but you should know that the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), ?No man is alone with a non-mahram woman, but the Shaytaan is the third one present with them? (reported by al-Tirmidhi, 1171) includes the most pious of people as well as the most corrupt. Islam does not exempt anyone from such rulings. <br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b> Addition: </b></span><br />
Whilst writing these few lines, we heard about a problematic situation in which, to cut a long story short, a man married a woman and brought her to live in his family home, where she lived happily with him. Then his younger brother began to enter upon her when her husband was absent, and talk to her in a romantic manner, which resulted in two things: firstly, she began to dislike her husband intensely, and secondly, she fell in love with his brother. But she was not able to divorce her husband, nor was she able to do what she wanted with the other man. This is the grievous penalty. This story illustrates one level of corruption, beyond which there are many more which culminate in the immoral action (zinaa/adultery) and the birth of illegitimate children.<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b> Advice: </b></span><br />
Segregating men and women in family visits. <br />
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Man is naturally gregarious and sociable; he needs friends and friendships entail visiting one another. <br />
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When there are visits between families, we should block the path of evil by not mixing. One of the indications that mixing is haraam is the aayah (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
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?? And when you ask his wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind a screen, that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts?? [al-Ahzaab 33:53]<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>1.</b></span> In most cases the hijab of women in these mixed gatherings is non-existent or is not proper, so a woman may display her beauty before someone in front of whom it is not permissible for her to uncover herself. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): ?And tell the believing women? not to reveal their adornment?? [al-Noor 24:31]. It may happen that a woman adorns herself for strangers in a mixed gathering in a way that she never does for her husband. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>2. </b></span> When men see women in one gathering, this is a cause of corruption in the religion and morals, and provokes desires in a forbidden manner. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3.</b></span> The spouses may argue and ignore one another in an alarming fashion, when one looks at or winks at another man's wife, or laughs and jokes with her, and she with him. After a couple returns home, the settling of scores begins: <br />
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Man: Why did you laugh at what so and so said, when he did not say anything funny? <br />
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Woman: And why did you wink at so and so? <br />
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Man: When he spoke, you understood him quickly, but you do not understand what I say at all! <br />
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Thus they trade accusations and the matter ends in enmity and even divorce. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>4. </b></span> Some men and woman may regret their luck in marriage, when a man compares his wife to his friend?s wife, or a woman compares her husband to her friend?s husband. A man may say to himself: ?So and so talks and answers questions? she is well-educated and my wife is ignorant, she has no education?? and a woman may say to herself, ?So and so is so lucky! Her husband is smart and eloquent, and my husband is so boring and speaks without thinking.? This spoils the marital relationship or leads to bad treatment. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>5.</b></span> Some people may show off to one another by pretending to have things that they don?t really have. So a man may issue instructions to his wife in front of other men and pretend that he has a strong personality, but when he is alone with her at home he is like a tame pussycat. A woman may borrow gold and wear it so that the other people may see that she has such and such. But the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ?The one who shows off with something that does not belong to him is like one who wears a garment of falsehood.? (Reported by al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 9/317) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>6.</b></span> These late-night mixed gatherings result in wasted time, sins of the tongue, and leaving small children home alone (so that they do not disturb the evening with their cries!) <br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>7. </b></span> These late-night mixed gatherings may even develop to the extent of involving many kinds of major sins, such as drinking wine and gambling, especially among the so-called ?upper classes?. One of the major sins that occur during these gatherings is following the kuffaar and imitating them in fashions and various customs. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ?Whoever imitates a people is one of them.? (Reported by Imaam Ahmad in al-Musnad, 2/50; Saheeh al-Jaami?, 2828, 6025). <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b> Advice: </b></span><br />
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Beware of the dangers of having (male) drivers and (female) servants in the home. <br />
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Striving to ward off evil is a religious duty, and closing the doors of evil and fitnah (temptation) is one of the priorities of sharee?ah. A lot of fitnah and sin has come to us through servants and drivers, but many people do not pay attention to this, and if they do notice it, they do not take it seriously. A person may be stung repeatedly from the same place, but he does not feel the pain, or he may hear of a disaster that happened near his own home, but he does not learn from it. This stems from weak faith and the failure to feel that Allaah is near, failings that affect the hearts of many people in the modern age. We will briefly explain the bad effects of having servants and drivers in the home, so that it will be a reminder to the one who has the eyes to see or who wants to follow the right path in his own home. <br />
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Having female servants in the home presents men, especially young ones, with fitnah and temptation, through their adornment and being alone with them. We hear so many stories, one after another, of some youth being led astray, and the reason for this is that the servant entered upon a young man, or a young man took advantage of the fact that no one else was home and entered upon the servant. Some young men have told their families frankly about what happened, and the families did not respond; in other cases the family may have discovered something, but their response was bereft of any sense of honour or jealousy. ?O Yoosuf! Turn away from this! (O woman!) Ask forgiveness for your sin. Verily, you were of the sinful.? [Yoosuf 12:29 ? interpretation of the meaning]. So the fire remains close to the fuel, and the situation is left as it is, with no changes being made. It has also happened that servants have taught misbehaviour to the daughters of the household. <br />
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- The lady of the house neglects her duties and forgets her responsibilities, and becomes accustomed to being lazy, then when the servants travels things are very hard indeed for her. <br />
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- The children receive a bad upbringing, represented by the following examples: <br />
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The children learn the beliefs of kufr from kaafir servants, Christians and Buddhists. There have been children who make the sign of the cross on their heads and two sides of their chests, as they have seen a Christian woman doing when she prays, and she tells them, ?This is something sweet from Christ.? Or a child may see a servant praying to a statue of Buddha, or another celebrating her people?s festivals and conveying to our children her feelings of joy, so they get used to taking part in festivals of kufr. <br />
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The children are deprived of their mother?s love and care, which is an essential part of their upbringing and psychological stability. A servant cannot make up this lack for a child who is not hers. <br />
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The child?s Arabic will be corrupted because it is mixed with foreign words, so he grows up lacking something, which will have an adverse effect on his education in school. <br />
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Some heads of households feel the financial strain of paying salaries for drivers and servants. Then there are the family disputes that arise over who should pay these salaries, especially in cases where the wife is employed. If the wife would stay at home instead of working outside the home, she would spare herself a lot of trouble. The fact of the matter is that in many cases we create trouble for ourselves, then we demand a solution, and often the solution we come up with is far from decisive. <br />
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Getting used to having servants has created dependency and negative character traits. <br />
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Some women may include having a servant as a condition in their marriage contract; others may plan on bringing their family?s servant with them when they get married. Thus our daughters have lost the ability to deal independently with anything in the home, no matter how small it is. <br />
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- When women brought servants into their homes, they started to have a lot of free time and did not know what to do with it. So some women began to sleep a lot, and some are never home because they are always going to gatherings where they gossip and backbite and waste their time. The result will be regret on the Day of Resurrection. <br />
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- Harm comes to the members of the family in different ways, for example: <br />
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1- Witchcraft and magic, which can cause the separation of husband and wife, or cause physical harm. <br />
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2- Harm to the possessions of family members because of theft. <br />
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3- Damage to the family?s reputation. How many decent homes have been turned into dens of immorality and corruption in the absence of their owners. You must surely have heard of female servants who receive men when the homeowners are absent. <br />
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- The freedom of men (those who fear Allaah) within their own homes is restricted, as is also the case for those who try to call their families to put things in order. <br />
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- Women end up being alone with drivers who are strangers (non-mahrams) to them, in the house or car, and women do not refrain from going out wearing adornments and perfume in front of the drivers. They act as if he is one of their mahrams or even closer, and because they go out with them so often and talk to them so much, the psychological barrier is broken down and so forbidden things are done. The frequency of such incidents in our society demonstrates to those who have the eyes to see just how serious the matter is. <br />
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- Bringing servants and drivers from all sorts of kaafir nations clearly goes against the Prophet?s specific orders that kaafirs should not be allowed into the Arabian Peninsula. There is absolutely no need to do this, as it is possible to bring Muslims in if there is a need for workers. Added to this is the fact that employing kaafirs strengthens the economies of kaafir nations, as the employees transfer their salaries to their homelands, even though Muslims should have priority in this matter. By mixing so much with these kaafirs, Muslims can no longer see the difference, which gradually destroys the concept of al-walaa wa?l-baraa? (loyalty and allegiance vs. enmity and disavowal) in their minds. Added to this is the ugly role played by some agency owners who have no fear of Allaah, who will tell you that there are no Muslim employees. Or they <a href="http://facebook.com/dbht1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0x2UHr6Cx1Phg0MQkDwq_uYdPqhhx66Q9OW7iQ6gO6hb9fsWvfpCKX_FJe13rabM_BEBOpMkXHnF8R55qQL_azusBtfQ0PG7ao6yuNT356GvzDxiCBzIXc0CuiBEYPCwpki4fFr9nBps/s400/64215_393179967441498_1420505547_n.jpg" width="400" /></a>may engage in deceit and trickery, so that after a driver or servant who is described as a Muslim in official papers has arrived, the head of the household discovers that this is a lie, or the new employee may be playing a role that started in his country of origin, where the agency taught him a few Islamic words so that he can pose as a Muslim in front of the family that employs him. <br />
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- Family breakup resulting from the householder?s affair with a female servant. Look at what really happens and think how many divorces have happened because of servants, and how many servants have become pregnant with illegitimate children. <br />
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Then ask the people working in hospital maternity departments, or find out about police reports detailing the problems caused by illegitimate children born as a result of the temptation posed by female servants. Then try to understand the extent of the spread of venereal diseases which have been brought into our society because of that. Now you will understand the vicious circle we are in because of bringing female servants into our homes. <br />
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Think about the misconceptions that these servants and drivers have about the Islamic religion when they see the behaviour of those who claim to be Muslim. Ask yourself, what kind of obstacles are we placing in front of them? How are we preventing them from discovering the way of Allaah by what we do to them? How could they possibly enter a religion when this is the state of those who claim to belong to it? <br />
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Because of these matters and others, some scholars think that it is not permissible to bring female servants into the home in the manner in which this is done nowadays, and that it is obligatory to put a stop to fitnah and close the door to evil. (See the fatwa of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-?Uthaymeen on this issue). <br />
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In order to comply with the command of Allaah (interpretation of the meaning), ?? and when you give your word, say the truth?? [al-An?aam 6:152], we should point out the following: <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Firstly: </b></span>we do not deny the fact that some servants and drivers are sincere Muslims, possibly more sincere than the members of the household. We have heard of a servant who keeps a Mus-haf (copy of the Qur?aan) on the shelf in the kitchen so that she can read it whenever she finishes her work, and a driver who prays Fajr in the mosque before his employer does. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Secondly</b></span>: we are not ignoring the real needs that people sometimes have for essential reasons, such as needing the help of servants in a large house, or when a family has a lot of children, or when someone is chronically ill or has disabilities, or when there is hard work that the wife cannot do on her own. But what we Muslims should ask is: who is applying Islamic conditions and taking care of religious precautions when bringing servants and drivers into the home? How many of those who bring drivers into the home (let?s get real!) can guarantee that the driver will not be alone with one of his womenfolk, or that the man will not be alone with a female servant? He should also tell the female servant to observe hijaab, and he should not deliberately look at her adornment. If he comes home and no one is there but the servant, he should not enter. He should not accept any servants except those who are sincerely Muslim? and so on. <br />
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For this reason, everyone who has one of these servants or drivers in his home should make sure that this person is there for a legitimate need and that the Islamic conditions are being properly fulfilled. The story of Yoosuf (upon whom be peace) contains a lesson for us with regard to this matter. It clearly indicates the fitnah that exists when there are servants and drivers in the house, and that evil may be initiated by members of the household even though the servants are people who fear Allaah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
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?And she, in whose house he was, sought to seduce him (to do an evil act), she closed the doors and said: ?Come on, O you.? He said, ?I seek refue in Allaah (or Allaah forbid)!??? [Yoosuf 12:23] <br />
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We suggest to those who complain that things are too difficult in their homes without servants that they could do the following: <br />
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- Buy ready-made food from the market; use paper plates; use laundry services; have the house cleaned by workers who are supervised by the man; ask relatives to help care for the children when necessary, such as when the wife is recovering from childbirth. <br />
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- If that is not enough, they could seek the help of a temporary servant, under proper Islamic conditions, and when there is no longer any need she may be dismissed. There are, however, risks attached to this solution. <br />
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- It is better if the servant is paid hourly, so that she can do her job then leave the house. Whatever the case, things should be done only as they are needed. <br />
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- We have discussed this matter at length because the problem is so widespread in our society. It may be different in other countries. Before closing this discussion we should mention some matters that have to do with taqwa or fear of Allaah: <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>1- </b></span> Everyone who has sources of fitnah in his home, whether from servants or from anything else, should fear Allaah and remove them from his home. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">2- </span> Everyone who thinks that he is going to impose Islamic conditions when bringing a servant to his home should fear Allaah and realize that many of these conditions will become less stringent as time goes by. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3- </b></span> Everyone who has a kaafir servant in the Arabian Peninsula should present Islam to him or her in the best possible way. If he or she becomes Muslim, all well and good, otherwise the servant should be sent back to wherever he or she came from. <br />
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Finally, we will end this discussion on servants and drivers with a story that contains an important lesson about the dangers of having servants in the home, and about referring to the Qur?aan and Sunnah, and rejecting every ruling that contradicts the sharee?ah, and consulting people of knowledge, and purifying the Islamic society through application of the punishments prescribed by Allaah. <br />
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Abu Hurayrah and Zayd ibn Khaalid (may Allaah be pleased with them) said: ?We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when a man stood up and said, ?I urge you by Allaah to judge between us according to the Book of Allaah.? His opposite number, who was more knowledgeable, stood up and said, ?Judge between us according to the Book of Allaah and give me permission to speak.? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ?Speak.? He said, ?This son of mine was employed as a servant by this man, and committed zina (adultery) with his wife. I gave him one hundred sheep and a servant in compensation [for the damage to his honour], then I consulted some of those who have knowledge, and they told me that my son should be flogged one hundred times and exiled for a year [because he was unmarried], and that the woman should be stoned [because she was married and she consented to the act].? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ?By the One in Whose hand is my soul, I will judge between you according to the Book of Allaah. Take back the hundred sheep and the servant. Your son is to be flogged one hundred times and exiled for one year. O Unays, go to this man's wife tomorrow and if she confesses, then stone her.? [Unays] went to her the next day and she confessed, so he stoned her.? (Reported by al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 12/136). <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Note:</b></span> one of the things that upsets every Muslim who cares about the rulings of Islam is what happens in some homes, where cleaners and maintenance workers enter upon women when they are wearing nightdresses and house-dresses. Does these women think that these people are not men in front of whom Allaah has commanded them to observe hijaab? <br />
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Another evil thing that happens in some homes is where non-mahram men teach adolescent girls, or some women teach adolescent boys without wearing hijaab. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Advice: </b></span><br />
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Expelling effeminate men from our homes. <br />
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Al-Bukhaari (may Allaah have mercy on him) reported, in his chapter on expelling men who imitate women from our homes, the hadeeth of Ibn ?Abbaas, who said: ?The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed men who imitate women and women who imitate men, and said, ?Expel them from your homes.? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) expelled so and so [a man]. And ?Umar expelled so and so [a woman].? (Reported by al-Bukhaari in Kitaab al-Libaas, chapter 62, al-Fath, 10/333). <br />
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Then al-Bukhaari quoted the hadeeth of Umm Salamah, which he reported under the title ?What is forbidden of men who imitate women entering upon women?:<br />
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?From Umm Salamah, who said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was in her house, where there was also an effeminate man who told her brother ?Abd-Allaah ibn Abi Umayyah: ?If Allaah wills that you conquer al-Taa?if tomorrow, I will show you the daughter of Ghaylaan; she has four folds of fat in front and eight behind.? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ?This person should not enter upon you.?? (Reported by al-Bukhaari, chapter 113, al-Fath, 9/333). <br />
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The definition of ?effeminate man? (mukhannath): this is a man who may resemble women physically, or by imitating their movements and speech, and so on. If it is physical, i.e., this is the way that he is made, then there is no blame on him, but he must try as much as he can to change this resemblance. If he is imitating women deliberately, then he is described as mukhannath (effeminate) whether he commits the evil deed (is a homosexual) or not. <br />
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The effeminate man referred to here ? who was like a servant ? used to enter the houses of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) because he was considered to be ?an old male servant who lacked vigour? [cf. al-Noor 24:31]. <br />
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When the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) realized that this person could describe women very precisely and that he was describing a woman as having four folds of fat in front and eight behind (four on each side), he ordered that he should be thrown out and not allowed to enter his wives? apartments, because of the mischief that he could cause, such as possibly describing the women he saw to strangers, or having a bad influence on the members of the household, such as leading women to imitate men, or men to imitate women by walking in a coquettish manner or speaking softly, or worse mischief than that. <br />
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So how about the situation nowadays, when we see many of these servants imitating the opposite sex, especially the kaafirs who are living in Muslim homes and who we know for sure are having a bad influence on Muslim boys and girls. There is even a group known as ?the third sex?, who wear make up and dress in women?s clothes. What a disaster for the nation which is supposed to be the ummah of jihaad! <br />
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If you want to know more about how the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) opposed this ?third sex? and how his Companions fought with their sense of honour against such things, think about this hadeeth: <br />
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Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that an effeminate man who had dyed his hands with henna (as women do) was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and it was said, ?O Messenger of Allaah! This man is imitating women.? So he banished him to al-Baqee? (as a punishment, sending him to an isolated place, and to protect others). It was said, ?Why do you not kill him?? He said, ?I have been forbidden to kill those who pray.? (Reported by Abu Dawood, 4928, and others. See Saheeh al-Jaami?, 2502). <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Advice: </b></span>Beware of the dangers of the small screen. <br />
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Hardly any home nowadays is free of some device that includes a screen [TV and computers], and very few of these machines are used for wholesome or beneficial purposes. Mostly they are used for harmful and destructive things, especially VCRs used for watching movies. With the arrival of satellite dishes which bring shows directly into Muslim homes and the widespread sale and exchange of movies, the matter of controlling these devices has become nearly impossible. <br />
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There follows a list of some of the harmful and corrupting effects that result from watching TV etc. After thinking about them, let everyone who wants to earn the pleasure of Allaah and avoid His wrath do what he can to change the situation: <br />
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Impact on our faith (?aqeedah): <br />
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? Showing the symbols of the kuffaar and their false religious signs, such as the cross, Buddha, their temples, gods and goddesses of love, good, evil, light, distress and rain. There are also missionary movies that call on people to venerate the religion of Christianity and become Christians. <br />
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Sharear Azamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14750674750420282488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406759819176673821.post-85710807620605206832013-03-24T20:01:00.000-07:002013-03-24T20:01:11.450-07:00Common Mistakes Made in the Way Men Dress In and Outside Prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.quranic-science.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxl2jg6cpZIiehgVDncQ4ugtwZEctLgJSiAHgcpDXkyUV5ptkwnPHt3ic3bKbdX2gfS0K1zIvnaioNxGRfiEKkqH0Z2FAWLI5ReUrEQEFjgXgApCK0p5QMMpdCA0y0JWLgjGjV3IJ3IU/s320/540766_10151291592432027_449564055_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>Common Mistakes Made in the Way Men Dress In and Outside Prayer</span></b><br />
Notes prepared from a book by Shaikh Mashoor Hasan Salmaan<br />
<i>Compiled by: Abu Muntasir</i><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><br />1. Praying in tight clothes so that they press over the private parts ('awrah)</b></span><br />
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Praying in tight fitting clothes is deemed Makrooh according to the Sharee'ah. It also harms the body and hence it is not good from the point of view of health as well. Perhaps the one praying in such clothes actually leaves parts of his prayer out.<br />
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It is known that many people who dress in such a way do not attain their prayer at all while others attain only a little, like the prayer of a hypocrite.<br />
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Those who pray, many amongst them nowadays dress in clothes that drape around one or both of their private parts (their thighs)<br />
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Ibn Hajr says, that a group of the Hanafee scholars considered such practice as makrooh. [See Fathul-Baari 1/476]<br />
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If this is the case for normal trousers then what the case when they are very tight?<br />
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'Allaamah al-Albaanee explained that trousers have two problems:<br />
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a) This is a dress that resembles the disbelievers. Muslims used to dress in wide bottoms (saaraweel) which were loose fitting and baggy like some still do so in Syria and Lebanon. The Muslims adopted this practice of wearing trousers/pants when they were colonised. When the colonisers departed, they left behind this evil influence and changed the Muslims due to the latter's ignorance.<br />
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b) This type of dress constricts and presses upon the 'awrah. The 'awrah of a man is from his knee up to his navel. The worshipper should be as far away as he can from disobedience of Allah during his prayer. He is prostrating (in obedience and submission) to Him. How can he be praying and standing before His Lord, when his buttocks are shown up and what is between is visibly magnified?<br />
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It is surprising to find many young Muslims taking exception to ladies wearing tight clothes since they cling to their bodies, yet these young men are forgetting about themselves. There is no difference between a lady wearing tight clothes which press against her body and a man wearing trousers which also cling to his body. The buttock of both a man and a woman is part of the 'awrah and both of them are the same. So it is compulsory for the youth to be warned about this predicament about which they are blind, except for he whom Allah has guided, who are few. [Taken from one his tapes]<br />
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The Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) forbade a man from praying in his trousers (saaraweel) unless he had a wrapper (rida) on him. [Abu Dawud, al-Haakim and the hadeeth is Hasan]<br />
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For more details please consult the following:<br />
<a name='more'></a>"Saheeh-ul-Jaami'-us-Sagheer" of 'Allaamah al-Albaanee "Sharh ma'aani-ul-aathaar" of Imaam at-Tahaawee Shaikh Hamood at-Tuwayjiree's discussion about it in his book which talks about how resemblance of the mushrikoon has befallen upon many in "Al- Iidaah wa-tibyaan.."<br />
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As long as the trousers are wide and not tight the prayer is valid, but it is better to have a shirt or a top on that covers between the navel and the knee, or lower still unto the middle of his shins or down to just above his ankles, because that is the complete covering.<br />
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'Allaamah Ibn Baz has a fatwah where he says that it is permissible to pray in trousers so long as the 'awrah is not pressed against due to its expansiveness and his backside is not shamelessly visible. If his backside becomes visible then the prayer is invalidated and if only the clothes press against his 'awrah then it is makrooh.<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">2. Praying in thin and transparent clothing</span></b><br />
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Just like it is makrooh to pray in tight fitting clothes which cling to the 'awrah and show them up, it is not permissible to pray in thin clothes which is transparent enough to make the (actual) body visible. [Fataawaa Rasheed Ridaa 5/2056]<br />
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Praying in sleeping suit or pyjamas:<br />
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Abu Hurairah (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) reports that a man stood up to the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and asked him about praying in a single garment. So he (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Unless you find two garments." Then he asked 'Umar (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) who said, "When Allah is generous, be generous yourselves. A man prayed in a lower garment (izaar) and an upper garment (ridaa), a waist wrapper (izaar) and a shirt (qamees), in a lower wrap (izaar) and an outer garment with full length sleeves (qaba`), in trousers (saraaweel) and an upper wrap (ridaa), in trousers and a shirt (qamees), in trousers and upper garment (qaba`), in tubbaan and qaba`, and in tubbaan and qamees. [Bukhaaree, Maalik in al-Muatta, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nan-Nisai, Ibn Maajah, al-Humaidee, Ahmad in al-Musnad, at-Tayaalisee, at-Tahaawee, al-Baghawee, Abu Nu'aim, al- Khateeb]<br />
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'Abdullaah ibn 'Umar (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) saw Naafi' praying by himself in a single garment (thawb). So he said to him, "Can you not wear two garments?" He said, "Of course". He said, "Do you go out to the market in a single garment?" He said, "No". He said, "Allah has more right that He is dressed up for!" [at-Tahaawee in "Sharh ma'anee-ul-aathaar", "Tafseer-ul-qurtubee" and "al-mughnee"]<br />
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Such is the case for one who prays in his night garments. He would feel shy to go to market in it on account of its thinness and transparency.<br />
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Ibn 'Abdul-Barr said in "at-tamheed" : "The people of knowledge love for one to be enveloped in his garments; that he beautifies himself for his prayer as much as he is able with regards to his clothes, applies perfume and cleanses his teeth (miswaak)."<br />
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On the topic of conditions for the correctness of the prayer, the jurists (fuqahaa) talk about the condition of covering the 'awrah: They make the condition for the covering to be thick and say it is not permissible to make it fine so that the skin tone is visible. ["al-majmoo'", "al- mughnee", etc]<br />
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This is a requirement whether for a man or a woman, whether praying alone or in congregation. So whoever's clothes reveal his 'awrah in spite of his ability to keep it covered, then his prayer is invalidated.<br />
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"Yaa banee aadama khudhoo zeenatakum 'inda kulli masjidin..."<br />
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"O Children of Adam! Take your adornment (by wearing your clean clothes),<br />
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while praying..."<br />
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[Sooratul-A'raf Aayah 31]<br />
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According to "Ad-deenul-khaalis" 2/101 and "at-Tamheed" 6/379 the aim of zeenah (adornment) is the thawb and the command means to conceal the 'awrah for every prayer.<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><br />Praying in light tunic:</b></span><br />
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Some people pray in garments that only lightly cover their bodies and its transparency allows one to see the person's skin colour, while not wearing anything underneath. (It is not enough to wear shorts or trunks underneath unless it covers the extent between the belly-button and the knee.) The statement of Umar previously shows usage of more than one garment to screen oneself and how one garment is added to another. The evidence shows that it is compulsory (waajib) to be properly covered and praying in only one <a href="http://islamk-janun.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGoLuUJQYV0H8MLPdQMHB1rC9vUS76Iu4OIbsXJN1ZKduyXJDiNrNl31IlShbvcl0pwQerzZHzLJsMlavqGIzMpJMm2TQIIp2gWvg1o8AMNzAJsYGGVkfQVGx0YnyifwJU7jNA_MnNNOE/s320/65526_403825303043631_1068345693_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>garment is allowed only because of the person's straightened circumstances (poverty). The prayer of someone in two garments is better than doing so in one. This has been clearly elaaborated by Qaadhi 'Iyaadh who has dispelled the differences regarding this maatter. [See Fathul-Baari, al-majmoo' 1/476 and Nayl-ul-awtaar 2/78, 84]<br />
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Imaam Shaafi'ee said if a person prays in his shirt and it reveals him, then his prayer is invalidated. [See al-Umm 1/78]<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Even worse for ladies:</b></span><br />
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The lady doing that is in a more terrible situation than the man. And if she prays in a loose outer garment with sleeves and slit in front then it is better for her to wear her jilbaab on top. She must make sure she does not pray wearing delicate material such as nylon or shifon.<br />
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Consider the hadeeth where we are told how in the last part of the nation of Muhammad (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa salam) there will be ladies who are "dressed yet they are naked."<br />
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Ibn 'Abdul-Barr says such women will dress in light material which will cover them yet not screen them, so they will be dressed in name but naked in reality. ["Tanweer-ul-hawaalik" 3/103]<br />
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A report from Hisham ibn 'Urwah shows once Mundhir ibn Zubair sent a beautiful garment from Kohistan to Asma bint Abi bakr who having felt the material and disapprovingly asked for it to be sent back to the sender. When asked as to why since it did not show the body, she replied it was transparent. [Ibn Sa'd in "at-tabaqaat-ul-kubra" 8/184 : saheeh]<br />
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As-Safaareenee said it is forbidden to wear clothing that is light and fine so that the 'awrah is not covered whether for a male or a female. This is a matter of the Sharee'ah without any difference. ["ad-deen-ul-khaalis" 6/180]<br />
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Ash-Shawkaanee said in "Nayl-ul-awtaar" 2/115 that it is compulsory (waajib) for a lady to cover her body with a garment which is not transparent. This is a condition for covering the 'awrah.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3. Praying in long and overflowing lower garment (practising isbaal or being a musbil)</b></span><br />
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Abu Hurairah (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) said: "While a man was praying with his lower garment hanging down the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said to him, "Go and do wudhu." So he went, performed ablution and came back. He (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Go and do wudhu." So a man said to him, "O Messenger of Allaah! Why do you ask him to do wudhu?" So he remained silent about him. Then he said, "He was praying while his lower garment was hanging down (i.e., he was a musbil)." [Abu Dawud, Musnad Ahmad, An-Nisai in Sunan al-Kubra, an-Nawawi]<br />
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'Abdullaah ibn 'Umar (radhiAllaahu 'anhumaa) reported that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Allaah does not look at the prayer of a person who lets his lower garment flow out of pride" [Ibn Khuzaimah]<br />
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Ibn Mas'ood (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) said he heard the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) say, "Whoever lets his lower garment hang down (over or below the ankles) from vanity then there is neither ease from Allaah nor anything blessed." [Abu Dawud and in 'Allaamah Albaani's Saheeh Jaami'-us-Sagheer]<br />
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This means there is no forgiveness for him or honour for him with Allaah. He does not preserve himself from the evils of his actions. It is also said that this means he does not (really) believe with regards to what Allaah has made permissible and forbidden. Also, some say it means he has freed himself from Allaah and become separated from His Deen. For further details and discussion on the understanding presented, please consult "Faidh-ul-Qadeer" and "Al-Majmu'".<br />
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The Shafi's and Hanbalis reckon the tradition is a proof that it is forbidden to let the lower garment drop below (the top of the ankles) in prayer when done out of pride, and according to the Shafi's it is objectionable when no vanity is intended. [See "Al-Majjmu'" and "Nail-ul-Awtaar"]<br />
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For a detailed discussion on this please consult "Majmoo' al-Fataawa" of Ibn Taimiyyah, "Fathul-Baari", and "'Awn-al-Ma'bood" where you will find the explanation that it is indeed forbidden to practice isbaal whether with pride or without it.<br />
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Shaikh Ahmed Shaakir pursued this matter in his verification of authenticity of prophetic reports (hadeeths) in Ibn Hazm's "al-Muhalla" and showed how the author had left out the first hadeeth which is a strong proof that the prayer of a musbil is invalid.<br />
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Ibn al-Qayyim elaborated about the first hadeeth and said letting the lower garment flow is sinful. The man was ordered to perform ablution and pray because ablution puts out the heat of sinfulness.<br />
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At-Teebi explained the man was asked to do ablution although he was clean so that he would consider the reason why he was ordered so. Allaah blessed the request of the Prophet in that such outward cleanliness will cleanse the stain of arrogance inside, because exterior cleanliness affects the inward cleanliness.<br />
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Ibn Taimiyyah in his "Majmoo' al-Fataawa" emphasised that it is the same whether one practices isbaal of his trousers, or lower wrap or shirt (qamees). It is obligatory for every Muslim to leave isbaal and fear Allaah about it.<br />
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'Allaamah Ibn Baz's discussion on isbaal<br />
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'Allaamah Ibn Baz was asked whether it is correct to pray behind an innovator (mubtadi') and one who is a musbil and he said:<br />
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"The prayer is correct behind the innovator and the one who is a musbil and (one who has some) other sin according to what is more right from what the scholars say, as long as it is not a bid'ah of disbelief (kufr) for the person. If it is a bidah of disbelief like that of a Jahmee and similar to that, which takes a person outside the fold of Islaam, then it is not correct to pray behind such people. However, it is obligatory for those responsible (amongst the people) that they choose the imaam to be of a pleasing character and safe from bid'ah and immorality. (This is) because being an imaam is a great (and important) trust (amaanah). He stands as an example to the Muslims by it. Thus it is not permissible to render its custodianship to the people of innovation and immorality when others are able to be appointed."<br />
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Isbaal is totally sinful which is necessary (waajib) to avoid and warn against it because of the statement, "Whatever hangs below both ankles from the lower garment (izaar) is in the Fire." [Bukhaari, An-Nisai]<br />
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<a href="http://muslim-teacher.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92CZBfbBVL9c58tpPxbk8mT3lSN13FdjZj-x4HpKub166eUzb2bf8Qt9kplk_7GlJzxirkLP2dSVGQzg6oFA7ElUMAQW_wXCVJ_MALi1RR8LcJqaKXVEkEcIREiq-VM254NUuzWaOgqI/s1600/72683_470768352985013_1214738183_n.jpg" /></a>Whatever is like the izaar also comes under the same judgement, like the shirt (qamees), trousers, cloak (woollen - basht) and similar to that. It is authentic from the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) that he said, "Allaah will not speak to three (types of people), nor will He look at them on the Day of Judgement, nor will He purify them, and they will have a painful punishment: the person who is a musbil with regard to his garment, ... ..." Muslim brings this in his Saheeh.<br />
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When the person does so with izaar or something similar due to pride and arrogance then that makes him even more strong in sinning and draws him nearer to the punishment, since the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Whoever lets his garment flow (upon and beneath the ankles) due to vanity Allaah will not look at him on the Day of Judgement."<br />
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It is compulsory for every Muslim to be on guard against what Allaah has forbidden for him with regards to isbaal and other sins.<br />
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[Mujallat-ud-Da'wah No. 913]<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">4. Rolling up the garment in prayer</span></b><br />
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One of the mistakes of some of those who pray is that they tuck up their garments before starting their prayer.<br />
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It is reported from Ibn 'Abbaas (radhiAllaahu 'anhumaa) that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "I have been ordered to prostrate upon seven (bones) and that I neither tuck up the hair nor the garment (thawb)." [Muslim, An-Nisai, Ibn Khuzaimah]<br />
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Ibn Khuzaimah interpreted this narration with a chapter heading "Prevention from tucking up the garments in prayer".<br />
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An-Nawawi said the scholars are in agreement that it is not permissible to pray while his garment is rolled up or his sleeve or anything similar. [Sharh Saheeh Muslim]<br />
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Imaam Maalik said that if his clothes are already like that since he was doing a job and he rolled it up for that work and he started his prayer as he is, then there is no harm that he prays in that condition.<br />
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However, if he only does that to tuck up his hair or garment then there is no good in it. [Al-Mudawwanat-ul-Kubra]<br />
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An-Nawawi continued to say that the prohibition of hemming the garment is that of strong dislike. If he prays like that then he does evil although his prayer is correct. This is supported by At-Tabari where he speaks of a consensus by the scholars and Ibn-ul-Mundhir who takes recourse to Hasan Al-Basri. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>5. Praying without covering the head</b></span><br />
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It is permissible to pray in bare head for a man. The head is 'awrah for a woman. However, it is recommended (mustahab) that he is completely dressed for prayer. This includes covering the head with a cap, or turban or something similar from what is customary from his clothes.<br />
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Uncovering the head without excuse is detested (makrooh) specially in the compulsory prayers and even more specially in congregation.<br />
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'Allaamah Albaani said: "As for what I see, it is makrooh to pray with the head bare and this is indisputable. It is recommended for Muslims to enter the prayer in full Islamic manner of dressing because of the hadeeth, "Allaah has more right that you beautify for Him." [At-Tahawi, At-tabraani, Al-Baihaqi. See Silsiltus-Saheehah]<br />
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"This is not from the good manners from the customs of the Salaf to have the head uncovered and walk like that on the road, and enter places of worship like that, but it is from the ways of the foreigner which has infiltrated the Islamic lands when the disbelievers set foot in it, and imported their corrupt custom and the Muslims imitated them in it. So repel it and its likes... ... This is an extraordinary accident and it is not appropriate that it should warrant contradicting the prior Islamic culture, and be taken as an excuse for permission to pray without head-covering."<br />
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Then 'Allaamah Albaani goes on to explain the mistake of some brothers in Egypt who brought the proof of the permissibility to pray without covering the head by analogising with how the head is uncovered for someone in ihraam during the pilgrimage. This is wrong since not covering the head during the pilgrimage is from the law (Sharee'ah) of Allaah. If their analogy was right them they should make it compulsory to pray without any head covering at all since it is obligatory to do so during the pilgrimage! [Tamaam-ul-Minnah fee ta'leeq 'alaa fiqh-us- Sunnah by 'Allaamah Albaani]<br />
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It is not established at all that the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) ever prayed outside the pilgrimage with bare head, without a turban/cap. Whoever thinks he did so then he should bring the proof. If he (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) had done so, it would have been recorded.<br />
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Let it be known that it is just makrooh for a man to pray with bare head. [Al-Majmoo' - Al-Baghawi etc.]<br />
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PS: The narration attributed to Ibn 'Abbaas that the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) would sometimes remove his cap and place it as a sutrah in front of him is weak (da'eef). Even if it was authentic then it does not prove praying in bare head since it is compulsory and more important to take a sutrah and it is more evident that he did that to make up for lack of any suitable sutrah. <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">6. Praying in clothes which has pictures on it</span></b><br />
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A'isha (radhiAllaahu 'anha) said that (once) the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) prayed in a woollen garment which had markings on it. When he finished his prayer he said, "Go to Abu Jahm ibn Hudhaifah with this garment and bring me an inbijaaniyyah, because this has distracted me too much in my prayer." [Bukhaari, Muslim, Nisai, Ibn Maajah, Muatta of Maalik]<br />
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The inbijaaniyyah that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) desired is a thick garment which has no markings or pattern on it unlike the khameesah (woollen garment which he was wearing at the time) which he rejected and it had such markings. And patterns are more preferable than pictures.<br />
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At-Teebi said while commenting on the above narration that pictures and similar things which can be seen affects the pure hearts and clean souls. [See "'Umdatul-Qaari" and "Fathul-Baari"]<br />
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Anas (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) said that (once) A'isha (radhiAllaahu 'anha) had a curtain which she used to screen a side of her house. The Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said to her, "Remove it from me, because its pictures keep on turning my attention away from my prayer." [Bukhaari]<br />
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The above narration presents a difficulty when viewed against the other hadeeth also from A'isha (radhiAllaahu 'anha) which says that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) would not enter the house which had a screen/curtain with pictures on it. [Muslim] This is resolved by knowing that this narration is talking about pictures of living creatures on the material while the first narration is not about such.<br />
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The above hadeeth of Anas (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) is evidence that it is makrooh to pray in a garment which has pictures on it.<br />
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From the above evidences al-Qatalaani said in "Irshaad-ul-Saari" if the picture distracts a person praying in front of it then it is more so when he is clothed in such garments. Al-'Aini in "'Umdat-ul-Qaari" noted about the chapter in Bukhaari "Dislike of praying where there is a picture" that this means this chapter (by Bukhaari) explains that it is makrooh to pray in the house which has a garments with pictures on it. Thus if it is makrooh to do so in such case then it is worse when dressed in such material.<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><br />The jamhoor hold the position that it is makrooh.</b></span><br />
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Their evidence is the narration from A'isha (radhiAllaahu 'anha) who said: "I had a garment with pictures on it which I had spread out and the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) was praying towards it. So he said, "Take it away from me." So I (cut it into pieces and) made (some) screens (out of it). [Muslim, Nisai]<br />
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After mentioning this hadeeth an-Nawawi said, "As for the garment which has a picture or a cross or whatever draws the attention away, then praying in it or towards it or on it is makrooh due to the hadeeth." <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>7. Praying in saffron dyed clothes ( Saffron colour is red or bright orange-red)</b></span><br />
'Abdullaah ibn 'Umar (radhiAllaahu 'anhumaa) said that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) saw him dressed with two saffron coloured garments. So he said, "This is the dress of the disbelievers, so do not clothe yourself with it." [Muslim, Musnad Ahmad]<br />
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In one narration he (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said to him, "Did your mother order you to wear it?" I said, "Shall I wash them both?" He said, "Rather burn them both!"<br />
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Yet another narration says, "So I did that."<br />
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In another narration it says how he was seen by the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) in a garment stained with saffron dye so he was told, "What is this garment that is upon you?!" So he understood by that its dislike and went home and found them heating up the stove to cook meat and threw the garment into it. Then he went to the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) the next day and he said, "What have you done with your garment?" So when he had told him, he said, "Why didn't you clothe some of your family with it? There is no harm in the ladies using it." [Musnad Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Ibn Maajah]<br />
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It is reported from Anas (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) that the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) forbade the man from wearing saffron (clothes). [Bukhaari]<br />
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'Ali (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) said the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) forbade from saffron dyed clothes. [Muslim, Nisai, Abu Dawud]<br />
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Ibn Qudaamah said, "Concerning praying in red garments, our companions have said it is makrooh for a man to clothe in it and pray in it." [Al-Mughni]<br />
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Ibn-ul-Qayyim discusses this in "Zaad-ul-Ma'ad" and says it is indeed very strongly disliked although still permissible. Allaah granted refuge from it to the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) when he wore a blood-red garment and now there is doubt as to the true meaning of red cloth.<br />
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At-Tabraani in "Al-Awsat" discusses the red garment of the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and says it is a mistake to think the garment was pure red and not mixed with anything else. This red garment was a Yemeni costume woven with red and yellow thread like all such Yemeni costumes. It is called red due to the red thread in it. As for pure red then this is strongly forbidden.<br />
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Imaam Ash-Shawkaani says in "As-Sail-ul-Jarraar" that the forbiddance is with regards to the purely red type of saffron dye, but what is red due to being coloured without saffron dye then such clothes is permissible.
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Can we have a new UN please?</b></span><br />Is there no limit to international duplicity and hypocrisy? <br /><br />Given the intensity of global outrage over the assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, some of us were beginning to hope that the world might finally confront Israel. We were obviously mistaken — once again. <br /><br />OK, poor Palestinians have long gotten used to getting swatted like flies and being at the receiving end forever. And Israel has always gotten away with murder. But those killed in cold blood in international waters were not some faceless “Palestinian terrorists,” as Israel calls them, but international peace activists and aid workers. And mind you they were not running guns or drugs but rushing the critically needed aid like food, medicines and most mundane stuff such as books and toys for children and bricks and cement for the ravaged homes of Gaza. <br /><br />This is why the least you expected from the so-called international community and its so-called institutions was some token action against Israel, or at least strong words against its shocking and brazen acts against the unarmed peace activists. The United Nations with its fine institutions and the movers and shakers who run the world body are yet to unequivocally condemn the Israeli outrage, let alone lift a finger against the regime. <br /><br />Helen Thomas, senior White House Press Corps member and the considered doyenne of international correspondents, gave a rare voice to America’s sleeping conscience when she blasted Israeli attack on the humanitarian convoy saying, “our initial reaction to this flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful.”<br /><br />Ms. Thomas who’s facing the combined wrath of the Israeli lobby and fanatically pro-Israel US media for advising the Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine” has been taped angrily questioning the US policy on Israel: “What do you mean you regret when something should be so strongly condemned? And if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up in arms. What is this sacrosanct, iron-clad relationship, where a country that deliberately kills people?”<br /><br />Ms. Thomas, who grilled 10 US presidents and survived, has been brought down by the lobby and has been forced to step down. So much for the much-celebrated Western freedom of speech! Meanwhile majority of US media networks, manipulated by the pro-Israel moneybags as always, are bending over backward to justify and “explain” the madness of Israeli massacre, spawning totally bizarre and ludicrous theories about the activists brandishing weapons and assaulting Israeli troops shouting “the Prophet’s army is coming!”<br /><br />
<a name='more'></a>IF the aid flotilla had arms on board, why it didn’t use them to defend itself? More to the point, how come all those killed were shot point blank on the forehead and in the back? But how can you argue with folks who live in a different world of their own where ephemeral things like reason, common sense and facts cannot break in. <br /><br />What’s new though? This is how Israel has always operated. It sets its own rules of the game and always gets the blessings of its defenders however indefensible be its actions. <br /><br />Only we expected better from Obama, because of his own sublime rhetoric and the incorrigible “audacity of hope”. Clearly, the more things change for Israel and America, the more they remain the same. So instead of going after Israel that is guilty of ultimate crime of murdering peacemakers and aid workers, not to mention the humanitarian catastrophe that has Gaza in its grip because of Israeli siege, the UN and world powers have inflicted another set of sanctions against Iran. There’s talk of “shock and awe” all over again, vowing to eliminate the “threat of Iran’s nuclear weapons” and “Islamic terrorism”. <br /> <br />Pray who’s the real terrorist here? The one who hasn’t attacked any neighbor, nor invaded a distant neutral country in the past few centuries or one who has just killed nine innocent people on a humanitarian mission? Who’s the real threat to world peace? Iran’s antiquated nuclear program, constantly monitored and “inspected” by the IAEA gray suits, or a state that has been hoarding nuclear weapons for half a century now and is guilty of wars against neighbors that have killed thousands of innocent people and driven millions from their homes? More ironically, all those ganging up against Iran brandishing this new stick of sanctions have enough nuclear weapons in their possession to blow up the planet many times over. <br /><br />CAN there be a better example of hypocrisy and duplicity? If this isn’t double standard, what is? Let’s face it. International institutions like the UN that were created ostensibly to build peace and avoid conflicts and wars have become playthings in the hands of big powers. They run the world as they please, using these international institutions. The UN, for which I have immense respect, has become a toothless tiger because the real power rests with the Big Five who rule and manipulate it with the help of their veto power. As any student of political science would tell you, this is precisely what happened with the League of Nations. With the world powers refusing to take it seriously and using it to push their own agendas, the league collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions and double standards in no time. <br /><br />The collapse of the league helped and aggravated the World War II wiping out nearly half of Europe’s population. When the UN was founded by the victors of the World War II in 1945, the failure of the league was supposed to have been in sight and right lessons were supposed to have been learned. But look at the crippling powerlessness of the UN today. It has become the handmaiden of big powers despite the noble goals and objectives that were at the heart of its inception. <br /><br />I agree most UN agencies have been doing an exemplary job of providing aid and fighting poverty, disease, backwardness, climate change and other demons. However, the world body has woefully failed in its chief objective; its raison d’ etre of protecting peace and preventing conflicts. <br /><br />The UN has still failed to deliver 65 years after its formation because some at the table are more equal than others. Western colonial rule may have ended long ago but their writ still runs in and outside the UN. The institution that is described as the world’s Parliament is sadly dictated by the old jungle law of the might is right. The number of times the US alone has used its veto power to block even perfunctory resolutions condemning Israeli crimes against Palestinian people runs into hundreds. <br /><br />If this has to change, the UN must change to reflect today’s changed geopolitical realities. Isn’t it strange that the largest democratic body on the planet offers no real say to more than half of its population? The Security Council that controls the world body is restricted to the US, Russia, China, Britain and France. <br /><br />The Middle East, the cradle of civilizations, home to three great faiths and the world’s known energy resources, has no say in the UN’s decision-making process. A country like India with a billion plus population is kept out in the cold. Ditto Africa where life on the planet is said to have begun. Representatives of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are not welcome either. In fact, the entire Southern Hemisphere of the globe doesn’t have a seat at the table. When will this change? Why should the UN be the preserve of a select club? India has been knocking on the door for some time, hoping to get a permanent seat at the privileged table. But others must follow suit too, pushing for a complete restructuring of the world body. It’s time to build a new UN and a new world order. A just and democratic world is not possible without justice and equality at the UN. <br /><br /><br /></div>
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Praise be to Allaah, we praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allaah from the evil of our own selves and from our evil deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides, none can lead astray, and whomsoever He sends astray, none can guide. <br />
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Lying is an evil characteristic, which all religions and systems of ethics warn against and which man's innate common sense (fitrah) agrees that it is wrong. Those who possess chivalry and sound reason also say this. <br />
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Truthfulness is one of the pillars on which the moral survival of the world depends. It is the foundation of praiseworthy characteristics, the cornerstone of Prophethood, the result of taqwaa. Were it not for truthfulness, the rulings of all divinely-revealed laws would collapse. Acquiring the characteristic of lying is akin to shedding one's humanity, because speaking is an exclusively human trait. <br />
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(Bareeqah Mahmoodiyyah, Muhammad al-Khaadimi, 3/183) <br />
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Our purely monotheistic sharee’ah warns against lying in the Qur’aan and Sunnah, and there is consensus that it is haraam. The liar will have bad consequences in this world and in the next. <br />
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According to sharee’ah, lying is not permitted except in specific cases which do not lead to loss of rights, bloodshed or slander of people’s honour, etc., but which concern saving lives, reconciling between people, or creating love between husband and wife. <br />
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There is a never a day or a moment when sharee’ah permits a person to tell lies or to say whatever he wants based on lies. One of the things that have become widespread among the common people is the so called “April Fool’s Day”, where they claim that the first day of the fourth solar month is a day when lying is permitted without being subject to any shar’i guidelines. <br />
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Many bad things may result from this, some of which we will mention below. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The prohibition of lying. </b></span><br />
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1. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
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“It is only those who believe not in the Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allaah, who fabricate falsehood, and it is they who are liars <br />
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[al-Nahl 16:105] <br />
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Ibn Katheer said: <br />
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“Then Allaah tells us that His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is not a fabricator or a liar, because only the most evil of people who do not believe in the signs of Allaah, the kaafirs and heretics who are known amongst the people for telling lies, tell lies about Allaah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). The Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was the most truthful of people, the most righteous, the most perfect in knowledge, action, faith and certain belief. He was known amongst his people for his truthfulness; none of them doubted that, to such an extent that he was known amongst them as ‘al-Ameen (the trustworthy) Muhammad.’ Hence when Heraclius, the ruler of Rome, asked Abu Sufyaan about the characteristics of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), one of the things he asked was, ‘Did you ever accuse him of lying before he said what he said?’ He said, ‘No.’ Heraclius said: ‘If he refrained from telling lies about people he would not go and tell lies about Allaah.’ <br />
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(Tafseer Ibn Katheer, 2/588) <br />
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2. It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The signs of the hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is entrusted with something, he betrays that trust.” <br />
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(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 33; Muslim, 59) <br />
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al-Nawawi said: <br />
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“What the commentators and most of the scholars said – which is correct – is that this means that these characteristics are the characteristics of hypocrisy, and the one who has these characteristics resembles the hypocrites in this sense. <br />
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The words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), ‘he is a pure hypocrite’ mean that he strongly resembles the hypocrites because of these characteristics. Some of the scholars said: this is concerning one in whom these characteristics predominate; one in whom these characteristics rarely appear is not included in this. This is the favoured view concerning the meaning of this hadeeth. Imaam Abu ‘Eesa al-Tirmidhi (may Allaah be pleased with him) narrated this meaning from the scholars and said: ‘The meaning of this according to the scholars is hypocrisy in one's actions.’” (Sharh Muslim, 2/46-47) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The most evil kinds of lies are: </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>1. Lies told about Allaah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). </b></span><br />
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This is the most serious kind of lie, and the one who does this is subject to a severe warning. Some of the scholars said that the one who does this is to be denounced as a kaafir. <br />
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Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
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“Say: ‘Verily, those who invent a lie against Allaah will never be successful’” <br />
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[Yoonus 10:69] <br />
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It was narrated that ‘Ali (may Allaah be pleased with him): “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Do not tell lies about me. Whoever tells lies about me, let him enter the Fire.’” <br />
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(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 106). <br />
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It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever tells lies about me, let him take his place in Hell.”<br />
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(narrated by al-Bukhaari, 110; Muslim, 3). <br />
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Ibn al-Qayyim said:<br />
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“… ‘Whoever tells lies about me, let him take his place in Hell’, i.e., let him take his place in Hell where he will abide and settle; it is not like a manzil or camp where he stays for a while and then moves on.” <br />
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(Tareeq al-Hijratayn, p. 169) <br />
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Lying also includes lies told about or to other people, such as <br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">2. Lying in buying and selling.</span></b><br />
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It was narrated from Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There are three to whom Allaah will not speak on the Day of Resurrection and He will not look at them or praise them, and they will have a painful torment.” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) repeated this three times. Abu Dharr said: “May they be doomed and lost, who are they, O Messenger of Allaah?” He said, “The one who lets his garment hang below his ankles, the one who reminds others of his favours, and the one who disposes of his goods by swearing a false oath.” <br />
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(Narrated by Muslim, 106) <br />
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It was narrated that Hakeem ibn Hizaam (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘The two parties involved in a transaction have the option [of cancelling it] until they part. If they are honest and truthful, their transaction will be blessed for them and if they conceal something and tell lies, the blessing of their transaction will be wiped out.’” <br />
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(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1973; Muslim, 532) <br />
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Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said: <br />
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“Allaah has enjoined truthfulness and honesty, and He has forbidden lies and concealment with regard to matters which should be known and revealed to people, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said in a hadeeth whose authenticity is agreed upon: ‘The two parties involved in a transaction have the option [of cancelling it] until they part. If they are honest and truthful, their transaction will be blessed for them and if they conceal something and tell lies, the blessing of their transaction will be wiped out.’ And Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):<br />
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[al-Maa’idah 5:8].” <br />
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(Minhaaj al-Sunnah, 1/16) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3. The prohibition on lying about visions and dreams</b></span> <br />
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This refers to when some of them claim to have seen such and such in a dream, but they are not telling the truth, then in the morning he starts to tell the people something that he did not see. <br />
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It was narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever tells of a dream that he did not see will be commanded [on the Day of Resurrection] to tie two grains of barley together, but he will never be able to do it. Whoever eavesdrops on people’s conversation when they dislike that – or they try to get away from him - will have molten copper poured in his ears in the Day of Resurrection. And whoever makes an image will be punished and will be told to breathe life into it, and he will not be able to do so.” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6635) <br />
<br />
Al-Manaawi said: <br />
<br />
“ ‘to tie two grains of barley together, but he will never be able to do it’ – because tying one to the other is not possible ordinarily. He will be punished until he does that, and he will never be able to do it. It is as if he is saying that he will be enjoined to do something that he can never do, and is being punished for it. This is a metaphor for continuous punishment… The reason why barley (sha’eer) is mentioned specifically is because dreams are connected to feelings (shu’oor); the words sha’eer (barley) and shu’oor (feelings) come from the same root in Arabic. <br />
<br />
The punishment for that is so severe – even though lies when awake may cause more damage, because they may involve testimony that may lead to execution or a hadd punishment – because lying about a dream is a lie about Allaah, may He be exalted, for dreams are a part of Prophethood, so they come from Him, and lying about the Creator is worse than lying about created beings. <br />
<br />
(Fayd al-Qadeer, 6/99) <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>4. The prohibition of speaking about everything that one hears </b></span><br />
<br />
It was narrated that Hafs ibn ‘Aasim said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘It is sufficient lying for a man to speak of everything that he hears.’” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by Muslim, 5) <br />
<br />
With regard to the meanings of the hadeeth and reports on this topic, they discourage speaking about everything that one hears. For usually a person will hear both true things and lies, so if he were to speak of everything that he hears, he would be lying, by telling of something that did not happen. We have stated above the view of the people of truth: that lying means telling of something in a manner other than the way it happened. It is not conditional upon it being done deliberately, but its being done deliberately is a condition of it being a sin. And Allaah knows best.” <br />
<br />
(Sharh Muslim, 1/75) <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>5. Lying in jest </b></span><br />
<br />
Some people think that it is permissible to tell lies if it is in jest. This is the excuse that they use for telling lies on April 1st or on other days. This is wrong. There is no basis for this in the pure sharee’ah. Lying is haraam whether the one who does it is joking or is serious. <br />
<br />
Lying in jest is haraam just like other kinds of lies. <br />
<br />
It was narrated that Ibn ‘Umar said: “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ‘I joke, but I speak nothing but the truth.’” <br />
<br />
(narrated by al-Tabaraani in al-Mu’jam al-Kabeer, 12/391) <br />
<br />
This hadeeth was classed as hasan by al-Haythami in Majma’ al-Zawaa’id, 8/89, and classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allaah have mercy on him) in Saheeh al-Jaami, 2494) <br />
<br />
It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: “They said, ‘O Messenger of Allaah, you joke with us.’ He said, ‘But I only speak the truth.’” <br />
<br />
(narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1990) <br />
<br />
Abu ‘Eesa said: this is a saheeh hasan hadeeth. <br />
<br />
A similar hadeeth was narrated by al-Tabaraani in al-Awsat (8/305) and classed as hasan by al-Haythami in Majma’ al-Zawaa’id, 9/17 <br />
<br />
‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Abi Laylaa said: the companions of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us that they were travelling with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). A man among them fell asleep and some of them went and took his arrows. When the man woke up, he got alarmed (because his arrows were missing) and the people laughed. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “What are you laughing at?” They said, “Nothing, except that we took the arrows and he got alarmed.” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is not permissible for a Muslim to frighten another Muslim.” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by Abu Dawood, 5004; Ahmad, 22555 – this version narrated by Ahmad). <br />
<br />
This hadeeth was classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 7658) <br />
<br />
It was narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn al-Saa’ib ibn Yazeed from his father from his grandfather that he heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “None of you should take the belongings of his brother, whether in jest or otherwise. Whoever has taken the stick of his brother, let him return it.” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by Abu Dawood, 5003; al-Tirmidhi, 2160 in brief) <br />
<br />
The hadeeth was classed as hasan by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 7578 <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>6. Lying when playing with children </b></span><br />
<br />
We must beware of lying when playing with children, because that will be written down (in the record of deeds of) the one who that. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) warned against doing that. It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Aamir (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “My mother called me one day when the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was sitting in our house. She said, ‘Come here, and I will give you (something).’ The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, ‘What do you want to give him?’ She said, ‘I will give him a date.’ The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘If you had not given him something, you would have been lying.’” <br />
<br />
And it was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever says to a child, ‘Come here and take this,’ then does not give him something, this is counted as a lie.’” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by Abu Dawood, 4991) <br />
<br />
This hadeeth was classed as hasan by Shaykh al-‘Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 1319. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>7. Lying to make people laugh </b></span><br />
<br />
It was narrated that Mu’aawiyah ibn Haydah said: “I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: ‘Woe to the one who talks to make the people laugh and tells lies, woe to him, woe to him.’” <br />
<br />
(narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 235. He said: this is a hasan hadeeth. Also narrated by Abu Dawood, 4990). <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The punishment for lying: </b></span><br />
<br />
The liar is warned of destructive punishment in this world, and humiliating punishment in the Hereafter. These include: <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>1. Hypocrisy in the heart. </b></span><br />
<br />
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
<br />
“So He punished them by putting hypocrisy into their hearts till the Day whereon they shall meet Him, because they broke that (covenant with Allaah) which they had promised to Him and because they used to tell lies <br />
<br />
[al-Tawbah 9:77] <br />
<br />
‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood said: “You may know the hypocrite by three things: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is entrusted with something he betrays that trust.”. He said: “Recite this aayah (interpretation of the meaning):<br />
<br />
‘And of them are some who made a covenant with Allaah (saying): “If He bestowed on us of His Bounty, we will verily, give Sadaqah (Zakaah and voluntary charity in Allaah’s Cause) and will be certainly among those who are righteous.” <br />
<br />
Then when He gave them of His Bounty, they became niggardly [refused to pay the Sadaqah (Zakaah or voluntary charity)], and turned away, averse. <br />
<br />
So He punished them by putting hypocrisy into their hearts till the Day whereon they shall meet Him, because they broke that (covenant with Allaah) which they had promised to Him and because they used to tell lies <br />
<br />
[al-Tawbah 9:75-77].” <br />
<br />
(Musanaaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, 6/125) <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>2. Guidance to evildoing and to the Fire </b></span><br />
<br />
It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood said:<br />
<br />
“The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Truthfulness is righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise. A person will continue to tell the truth until he is written with Allaah as one who tells the truth. Lying is evildoing, and evildoing leads to Hell. A person will keep on telling lies until he is written as a liar.’” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5743; Muslim, 2607) <br />
<br />
al-San’aani said: <br />
<br />
This hadeeth indicates that whoever continues to speak the truth, it will become a feature of his, and whoever deliberately tells lies and persists in it, it will become a feature of his. This is the same as any other good or evil characteristic, if a person persists in it, it becomes a feature of his. <br />
<br />
This hadeeth indicates how serious the matter of telling the truth is, and that it may lead a person to Paradise, and it indicates how ugly lying is and how it may lead a person to Hell. This is in addition to the consequences in this world, for the one who tells the truth will have his words accepted by people, and his testimony will be accepted by judges and he will be liked for what he says, whereas for the liar the opposite will be the case. <br />
<br />
Subul al-Salaam, 2/687 <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3. His testimony will be rejected </b></span><br />
<br />
Ibn al-Qayyim said: <br />
<br />
[The reason why the testimony of the liar is rejected] <br />
<br />
The strongest reason why testimonies, fatwas and reports may be rejected is lying, because it corrupts the very essence of the testimony, fatwa or report. It is like the testimony of a blind man concerning sighting the new moon, or the testimony of a deaf man concerning having heard the admission of someone. The lying tongue is like some faculty that is no longer working, indeed it is even worse than that, for the most evil thing a man may possess is a lying tongue. <br />
<br />
A’laam al-Muwaqqi’een, 1/95 <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>4. Blackening of the face in this world and in the Hereafter </b></span><br />
<br />
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): <br />
<br />
“And on the Day of Resurrection you will see those who lied against Allaah (i.e. attributed to Him sons, partners) their faces will be black”[al-Zumar 39:60] <br />
<br />
Ibn al-Qayyim said:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/quranobiggan" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBvT8yCQsHJjq27l5Si0GJnk1caNUnTU3dvD63Pen44KRfHbOy9OuKzYSo-gDKRfjSY63zQ-uvLkTwq1x4lMHcjnEAIbRTwCf2CJHr_X61y-FuJ7eIE3QhHY5jR5dqtHzn_XJ5q3hQac/s320/18209_366590393433789_916599940_n.jpg" width="209" /></a>Hence on the Day of Resurrection Allaah will make blackened faces the sign of the one who told lies about Him and His Messenger. Lying has a great effect in blackening the face and covering it with a mask of shame which every truthful person will be able to see. The feature of the liar is clearly visible in the face, and everyone who has the eyes to see can see it. But Allaah will bless the truthful person with dignity and respect, so whoever sees him will respect him and love him, and He will give the liar humiliation and shame, so whoever sees him will loathe him and despise him. And Allaah is the Source of strength. <br />
<br />
A’laam al-Muwaqqi’een, 1/95 <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>5. The liar will have the flesh of his cheeks torn to the back of his head </b></span><br />
<br />
It was narrated that Samurah ibn Jundub (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) often used to say to his companions, ‘Has anyone among you seen a dream?’ Then whoever Allaah willed would tell of his dream. One day he said to us, ‘Two (angels) came to me last night and woke me up, then they said to me, ‘Let’s go!’… so we set out and came to a man who was lying flat on his back and another man standing over his head with an<br />
<br />
iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear off that side of his face to the back (of the neck) and similarly tear his nose from front to back and his eye from front to back. Then he turned to the other side of the man's face and did just as he had done with the other side. Hardly had he completed this side when the first side was restored to its normal state. Then he went back and did that all over again. I said to my two companions, 'Subhaan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said to me, ‘Move on, move on!' (Then he said, describing how the two angels explained the things that he had seen): ‘As for the man you came across, the sides of whose mouth, nostrils and eyes were being torn off from front to back, he is the symbol of the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells so many lies that it spreads all over the world.’” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5745) <br />
<br />
The comments of the Salaf on lying: <br />
<br />
1. ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood said: “A man may speak the truth and persist in doing so until there is in his heart not even room for evil the size of a needle. Or a man may tell lies and persist in doing so until there is in his heart not even room for truth the size of a needle. <br />
<br />
2. And it was narrated that he said: “It is not correct to tell lies whether in jest or in seriousness,” then ‘Abd-Allaah recited the aayah (interpretation of the meaning):<br />
<br />
“O you who believe! Be afraid of Allaah, and be with those who are true (in words and deeds)” <br />
<br />
[al-Tawbah 9:119] <br />
<br />
3. Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq said: “Beware of lying, for it has nothing to do with faith.” <br />
<br />
4. It was narrated that Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqaas said: “The believer may acquire all sorts of characteristics except treachery and lying.” <br />
<br />
5. It was narrated that ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “True faith is not achieved until one gives up lying in jest.” <br />
<br />
(Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, 5/235, 236) <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Permissible kinds of lies </b></span><br />
<br />
Lying is permissible in three cases: war; reconciling between two disputing parties; and a husband lying to his wife or vice versa for the sake of love and harmony. <br />
<br />
It was narrated from Umm Kalthoom bint ‘Uqbah that she heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “He is not a liar who reconciles between people and narrates something good or says something good.” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2546; Muslim, 2605) <br />
<br />
It was narrated that Asmaa’ bint Yazeed said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘It is not permissible to tell lies except in three (cases): when a man speaks to his wife in a way to please her; lying in war; and lying in order to reconcile between people.’” <br />
<br />
(Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1939) <br />
<br />
This hadeeth was classed as hasan by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 7723 <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>April fool </b></span><br />
<br />
But with regard to “April Fool” (in Arabic, Kidhbat Neesaan or the lies of April), the origin of this lying is not known for sure. There are differing opinions concerning that: <br />
<br />
Some of them said that it developed from the celebrations of spring at the equinox on March 21. <br />
<br />
Some of them said that this innovation appeared in France in 1564 CE, after the introduction of a new calendar, when a person who had refused to accept the new calendar became the victim of some people who had subjected him to embarrassment and made fun of him, so he became a laughing-stock for others. <br />
<br />
Some of them said that this innovation goes back to ancient times and the pagan celebrations connected to a specific date at the beginning of spring, so this is the remnant of pagan rituals. It was said that hunting in some countries was unsuccessful during the first days of the hunt in some countries. This was the origin of these lies which are made up on the first day of April. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Le poisson d’avril </b></span><br />
<br />
The Europeans call “April Fool” le poisson d’avril (lit. “April fish”). The reason for this is that the sun moves from the zodiacal house of Pisces to the next house, or because the word poisson, which means fish, is a distortion of the word passion, which means suffering, “so it is a symbol of the suffering endured by Jesus (peace be upon him), according to the claims of the Christians, and they claim that this happened in the first week of April. <br />
<br />
Some of the kuffaar call this day All Fools’ Day, as it is known to the English. That is because of the lies that they tell so that those who hear them might believe them and thus become a victim for those who are making fun of him. <br />
<br />
The first mention of April Fool in the English language was in a magazine known as Dreck Magazine. On the second day of April in 1698 CE, this magazine mentioned that a number of people were invited to come and watch the washing of black people in the Tower of London on the morning of the first day of April. <br />
<br />
One of the most famous incidents that happened in Europe on April 1st was when the English newspaper, the Evening Star, announced in March 1746 CE that the following day – April 1st – that there would be an parade of donkeys in Islington, in England. The people rushed to see these animals and there was a huge crowd. They continued waiting and when they got tired of waiting, they asked about when the parade would be. They not find anything, then they knew that they had come to make an exhibition of themselves, as if they were the donkeys! <br />
<br />
‘Aasim ibn ‘Abd-Allaah al-Qurawayti <br />
<br />
After knowing this reality,let us make a promise to ourselves never to celebrate this day. We have to learn from the Spanish and adhere to the reality of Islam and never allow our faith to be weakened again. <br />
<br />
I say: it does not matter what the origins of April fool are. What matters more is knowing the ruling on lying on this day, which we are sure did not exist during the first and best generations of Islam. It did not come from the Muslims, but rather from their enemies. <br />
<br />
The things that happen on April fools’ day are many. Some people have been told that their child or spouse or someone who is dear to them has died, and unable to bear this shock, they have died. Some have been told that they are being laid off, or that there has been a fire or an accident in which their family has been killed, so they suffer paralysis or heart attacks, or similar diseases. <br />
<br />
Some people have been told about their wives, that they have been seen with other men, and this has led them to kill or divorce their wives. <br />
<br />
These are the endless stories and incidents that we hear of, all of which are lies which are forbidden in Islam and unacceptable to common sense or honest chivalry. <br />
<br />
We have seen how Islam forbids lying even in jest, and it forbids frightening a Muslim whether in seriousness or in jest, in words or in actions. <br />
<br />
This is the law of Allaah in which is wisdom and care for people’s circumstances. <br />
<br />
And Allaah is the Source of Strength.<br />
<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">By Ahmed Deedat</span></b> </b></span></div>
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<a href="http://alquranobiggan.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqlLvaXpQMb9gvc3IJsXCATyVgAbMpJDJLsgroFzscuincgGD3VXL1vCmydP4tsA9kdliLJFMwMhT2GlD9WnCMaXwBKvaj4fNnYDcCD8OtcDXjdZWq_vrzRiWBchUXXLksCjMgntVhgs4/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a>Islam is the only religion which teaches the existence of a PERFECT God. A<br />
perfect God means that there is no sharer in His Nature and His Attributes:<br />
<br />
"Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth<br />
not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him." (Holy Qur'an,<br />
112:1-4)<br />
<br />
There has appeared a man in Benoni. He is not qualified in theology, but is<br />
fondly cherishing the self-delusion that he is an apostle of Christ,<br />
appointed by God to convert Muslims to Christianity. Because he is a lawyer<br />
by profession, he is adept at juggling with words and quoting the Holy Qur'an<br />
totally out of context without knowing a word of Arabic. He wants Muslims to<br />
believe that Jesus was also a God, a belief that is abhorrent to us, because<br />
it is an antithesis of the Absolute perfection of Allah Subhaanahoo Wa Ta<br />
'Aala!<br />
<br />
Thus intent upon reversing the process of Truth, which is: "And say: The<br />
Truth has come and falsehood vanished. Surely falsehood is ever bound to<br />
vanish." (Qur'an, 17:81). In this he will never succeed because the process<br />
of Truth is irreversible.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>TWO REASONS</b></span><br />
<br />
He has given two reasons to prove that Jesus is God, viz: (i) "When we say<br />
Jesus is deity (or even God for that matter), we do not make him the Father!<br />
He is one with the Father and therefore HE SHARES HIS NATURE", and (ii) "HE<br />
IS IN EVERY WAY LIKE THE FATHER but he is not the Father".<br />
<br />
In short, according to him, Jesus is God because He SHARES THE NATURE OF GOD,<br />
and HE IS IN EVERY WAY LIKE GOD. These two reasons given by him to prove the<br />
divinity of Jesus are so puerile that they speak volumes of his legal<br />
training.<br />
<br />
Numerous quotations from the Bible are given below to prove that Jesus<br />
neither SHARED THE NATURE OF GOD, nor is he IN EVERY WAY LIKE GOD. He can,<br />
therefore, NEVER be GOD. We have given the quotations from the Bible without<br />
comment, because the Bible speaks for itself! TO SAY THAT JESUS IS GOD OR SON<br />
OF GOD IS NOT ONLY A MOCKERY OF GODHOOD, BUT BLASPHEMY OF THE LOWEST ORDER<br />
AND AND INSULT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OF MEN! (Note: Unless otherwise stated,<br />
all quotations from the Bible are given from the Authorized Version. In our<br />
headings and subheadings we have referred to Jesus as "God" in inverted<br />
commas in order to show the ABSURDITY of the claim of this man that Jesus is<br />
God!)<br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE BIRTH OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
"God" was created from the seed of David: "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ<br />
our Lord, which was made of the SEED of David according to the flesh."<br />
(Romans, 1:3)<br />
<br />
"God" was the fruit of the loins of David: "Therefore being a prophet, and<br />
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his<br />
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his<br />
throne." (Acts, 2:30)<br />
<br />
The Ancestors of "God": "The generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David,<br />
the son of Abraham." (Matthew, 1:1)<br />
<br />
The Sex of "God": "And when eight days were accomplished for the<br />
circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus." (Luke, 2:21)<br />
<br />
How Mary Conceived and Delivered "God". Mary conceived Jesus like any other<br />
woman: "The days were accomplished that she should be delivered," (Luke,<br />
2:6) which means that she went through all the normal stages of pregnancy.<br />
Nor was her delivery any different from other expectant mothers: "And she<br />
being with child cried, travelling in birth, and pained to be delivered."<br />
(Revelation, 12:2)<br />
<br />
"God" Sucked The Paps of a Woman: "And it came to pass, as he spake these<br />
things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto<br />
him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast<br />
sucked." (Luke, 11:27)<br />
<br />
The Country of Origin of "God": "Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in<br />
the days of Herod the king. (Matthew, 2:1)<br />
<br />
The Occupation of "God": "Jesus was a carpenter by trade." (Mark, 6:3),<br />
"and the son of a carpenter." (Matthew, 13:55)<br />
<br />
The Transport of "God": "Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and<br />
sitting upon an ass." (Matthew, 21:5) "And Jesus, when he had found a young<br />
ass, sat thereon." (John, 12:14)<br />
<br />
The Wining and Dining of "God": "The Son of man came eating and drinking,<br />
and they say, behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of<br />
publicans and sinners." (Matthew, 11:9; Luke, 7:34)<br />
<br />
The Poverty of "God": "And Jesus saith unto him, the foxes have holes, and<br />
the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his<br />
head." (Matthew, 8:20)<br />
<br />
The Meagre Possessions of "God": "Shoes of Jesus" (Luke, 3:16), "Garments<br />
and coat of Jesus" (John, 19:23)<br />
<br />
"God" Was a Devout Jew: "And in the morning, rising up a great while before<br />
day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."<br />
(Mark, 1:35)<br />
<br />
"God" Was a Loyal Subject: Jesus was a good citizen, he was loyal to Caesar.<br />
He said: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and<br />
unto God the things that are God's." (Matthew, 22:21) He paid his tax<br />
regularly. (Matthew, 17:24-27)<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">THE FAMILY OF "GOD"</span></b><br />
<br />
"God" Was the Son of Joseph: "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him,<br />
we have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write,<br />
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph" (John, 1:45)<br />
<br />
Brothers and Brothers-in-law of "God": "And when he was come into his own<br />
country, he taught them in their<br />
synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, whence hath this man<br />
this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is<br />
not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and<br />
Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence hath<br />
this man all these things? (Matthew, 13:54-56)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE DEVELOPMENT OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
Spiritual Development of "God": "And the child grew, and waxed strong in<br />
spirit, filled with wisdom." (Luke, 2:40)<br />
<br />
Mental, Physical and Moral Development of "God": "And Jesus increased in<br />
wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." (Luke, 2:52)<br />
<br />
"God" Was 12 Years Old When His Parents Took Him to Jerusalem: "Now his<br />
parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when<br />
he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the<br />
feast." (Luke, 2:41-42)<br />
<br />
The Powerless "God" (Jesus) said: "I can of mine own self do nothing."<br />
(John, 5:30)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Ignorant of the Time. Jesus said: "But of that day and that hour<br />
knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but<br />
the Father." (Mark, 13:32)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Ignorant of the Season: "And on the morrow, when they were come<br />
from Bethany, he (Jesus) was hungry: and seeing a fig tree afar off having<br />
leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when<br />
he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not<br />
yet." (Mark, 11:12-13)<br />
<br />
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the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man<br />
letters, having never learned?" (John, 7:14-15)<br />
<br />
"God" Learnt Through Experience: "Learned he obedience by the things which<br />
he sufered." (Hebrews, 5:8)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE TEMPTING OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
The Devil Tempted "God" For 40 Days: "And immediately the spirit driveth him<br />
into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted<br />
of Satan." (Mark, 1:12-13)<br />
<br />
The Devil Tempted "God" Continuously: "And when the devil had ended all the<br />
temptation, he departed from him for a season." (Luke, 4:13)<br />
<br />
Like the Sinners, "God" Was Tempted In All Things: "But (he) was in all<br />
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews, 4:15)<br />
<br />
True God Cannot be Tempted With Evil: "God cannot be tempted with evil,<br />
neither tempteth he any man." (James,<br />
1:13)<br />
<br />
Only The Ungodly Are Tempted With Evil: "But every man is tempted, when he<br />
is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." (James, 1:14)<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><br />THE MISSION OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
The Confession and Repentance of "God": before the beginning of his public<br />
ministry: "Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist" (Matthew, 3:13), "which<br />
signified the confession of sins" (Matthew, 3:6), "and repentance from sins<br />
(Matthew, 3:11).<br />
<br />
"God" Did Not Come to Save the Sinners: "And when he was alone, they that<br />
were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto<br />
them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but<br />
unto them that without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing<br />
they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not<br />
understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should<br />
be forgiven them." (Mark, 4:10-12)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE RACIAL "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
"God" Was a Tribal Jew: "The lion of the tribe of Juda." (Revelation, 5:5)<br />
<br />
"God" Came For The Jews Only: "But he answered and said, I am not sent but<br />
unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew, 15:24)<br />
<br />
Racial Discrimination of "God": "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and<br />
commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any<br />
city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the<br />
house of Israel." (Matthew, 10:5-6)<br />
<br />
According to "God", The Gentiles Are Dogs: "It is not meet to take the<br />
children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." (matthew, 15:26)<br />
<br />
The Kingdom of "God": And he (Jesus) shall reign over THE HOUSE OF JACOB for<br />
ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." (Luke, 1:33)<br />
<br />
The Titles of "God": "The king of the Jews" (Matthew, 2:2), "The king of<br />
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/>Israel" (John, 1:49; 12:13)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>A "GOD" UNLIKE THE GOD</b></span><br />
<br />
A Hungry "God": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was<br />
afterward an hungered." (Matthew 4:2), "Now in the morning as he returned<br />
into the city, he hungered." (Matthew, 21:18), "and on the<br />
morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry." (Mark, 11:12)<br />
<br />
A Thirsty "God": "(He) saith, I thirst." (John, 19:28)<br />
<br />
A Sleepy "God": "He was asleep." (Matthew, 8:24), "He fell asleep" (Luke,<br />
8:23), "And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow."<br />
(Mark, 4:38)<br />
<br />
A Weary "God": Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on<br />
the well." (John, 4:6)<br />
<br />
A Groaning "God": "He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled." (John,<br />
11:33), "Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave."<br />
(John, 11:38)<br />
<br />
A Weeping "God": "Jesus wept." (John, 11:35)<br />
<br />
A Sorrowing "God": "And (he) began to be sorrowful and very heavy." (Matthew<br />
26:37). "Then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto<br />
death." (Matthew, 26:38)<br />
<br />
A Hysterical "God": "And (he) began to be soreamazed and to be very heavy."<br />
(Mark, 14:33)<br />
<br />
A Weak "God": "And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,<br />
strengthening him." (Luke, 22:43)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE WARRING "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
The Strong-Arm Method of "God": "And he went into the temple, and began to<br />
cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought." (Luke, 19:45). "And<br />
the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in<br />
the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of<br />
money sitting: and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them<br />
all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the<br />
changers' money, and overthrew the tables." (John, 2:13-15)<br />
<br />
The "God" of War: Jesus said: "Think not that I am come to send peace on<br />
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew, 10:34)<br />
<br />
The Sabre-Rattling "God": Jesus said: "And he that hath no sword, let him<br />
sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke, 22:36)<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">The "GOD" ON THE RUN</span></b><br />
<br />
"God" Was Panic-Stricken: "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for<br />
he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him." (John, 7:1)<br />
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"God" Walked in Fear of the Jews: "Then from that day forth they took<br />
counsel together for to put him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more<br />
openly among the Jews." (John, 11:53-54)<br />
<br />
"God" Has Shown a Clean Pair of Heels: "Therefore they sought again to take<br />
him: but he escaped out of their hand." (John, 10:39)<br />
<br />
"God" Fled in Disguise: "Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus<br />
hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and<br />
so passed by." (John, 8:59)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE CAPTURE OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
A Friend Betrayed the Secret Hiding Place of "God": "And Judas also, which<br />
betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus off-times resorted thither with his<br />
disciples. Judas then, having received a band of man and officers from the<br />
chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and<br />
weapons." (John, 18:2-3)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Arrested, Bound and Led Away: "Then the band and the captain and<br />
officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, and led him away." (John,<br />
18:12-13)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Humiliated: "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote<br />
him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face." <br />
(Luke, 22:63-64). "Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and<br />
others smote him with the palms of their hands." (Matthew, 26:67)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Defenseless: "One of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with<br />
the palm of his hand", he said: "Why smitest thou me?" (John, 18:22-23)<br />
<br />
"God" Was Condemned to Death: "And they all condemned him to be guilty of<br />
death." (Mark, 14:64). "They answered and said, he is guilty of death."<br />
(Matthew, 26:66)<br />
<br />
The Dumb and Docile "God": "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like<br />
a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth." (Acts, 8:32)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE SUPPOSED END OF "GOD"</b></span><br />
<br />
The Dying "God": "And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost."<br />
(Mark, 15:37)<br />
<br />
The "God" That Was Supposed Dead and Defunct: "Christ died." (Romans, 5:6).<br />
"He was dead". (John, 19:33)<br />
<br />
The Supposed Corpse of "God": "he (Joseph of Arimathaea) went to Pilate, and<br />
begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered."<br />
(Matthew, 27:58)<br />
<br />
The Shroud of "God": "And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a<br />
clean linen cloth." (Matthew, 27:59)<br />
<br />
The Orbituary of The Late And Lamented "God": "Now when the centurion saw<br />
what was done, he glorified God, saying, certainly this was a righteous man."<br />
(Luke, 23:47)<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>EPILOGUE</b></span><br />
<br />
According to this self-appointed apostle of Christ, Jesus is God because: (i)<br />
"HE SHARED THE NATURE OF GOD", and (ii) because "IN EVERY WAY HE IS LIKE<br />
GOD". But according to the quotations of the Bible given above, we find that<br />
Jesus did neither SHARE THE NATURE OF GOD nor is he IN EVERY WAY LIKE GOD.<br />
He is, therefore, definitely NOT God! The onus to prove that Jesus is God<br />
now rests with this Christian. Either he must prove that Jesus is God, or he<br />
must admit that he is a polytheist, i.e., a believer in more than one God.<br />
WITH ALL THE TRICKS AND VERBAL LEGERDEMAIN OF HIS PROFESSION, HE WILL NEVER<br />
BE ABLE TO PROVE THAT JESUS IS GOD!!<br />
<br />
He and his fellow-preachers in Christ, will never succeed in convincing the<br />
Muslims that Jesus was anything other than a natural man and a prophet of<br />
God, sent unto the house of Israel to bear the good news of the coming of the<br />
KINGDOM OF GOD, which prophecy was fulfilled with the advent of the Holy<br />
Prophet Muhammed (Sallal Laahu Alaihi Wa Sallam)!
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>IS
THE BIBLE GODS WORD?</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">By
Ahmed Deedat</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER ONE</span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">WHAT THEY SAY</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">CHRISTIANS CONFESS</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. W. Graham Scroggie of the MOODY BIBLE
INSTITUTE, Chicago, one of the most prestigious Christian Evangelical Mission
in the world, answering the question —<b> "Is the Bible the Word of
God?"</b> (also the title of his book), under the heading:<b> IT IS HUMAN,
YET DIVINE.</b> He says on page 17: </span></div>
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<a href="http://muslim.zohosites.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPcMTVjPRV8pIKv2oJ-n0aKkYU1GvyaAQfXfBVLAnBDQCwrPYCXVNeDkbMzz0WF6V_IFr0qz5aohpOHPm1bHoRQLjoUNCmsAIKDUKDJUlxaspFZKPM5PxfGtEutuIFxxN-4br4a2qDYw/s400/images.jpeg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"Yes, the Bible is<b> human,</b> though
some, out of zeal which is not according to knowledge,</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> have
denied this. Those books</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> have passed through the<b> minds of men,</b> are
written in the <b>language of men</b>, were penned by the hands<b> of men,</b>
and bear in their style the<b> characteristics of</b> men." (Emphasis
added). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Another erudite Christian scholar, Kenneth
Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem,
says on page 277 of his book,<b> "The Call of the Minaret":</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"Not so the New Testament</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">3</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> . . .
There is<b> condensation</b> and editing;</span><sup><span style="color: magenta;">
4</span></sup><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> there is<b> choice, reproduction</b>
and<b> witness.</b> The Gospels have come through the<b> mind of the Church
behind the authors. </b>They represent<b> experience</b> and<b> history."</b></span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 5</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If words have any meaning, do we need to add
another word <b>of</b> comment to prove our case? No! But the professional
propagandists, after letting the cat out of the bag, still have the face to try
to make their readers believe that they have proved beyond the shadow of any
doubt that the Bible is the "irrefragable </span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">6</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Word of
God." Their semantic gymnastics — equivocating, and playing with words —
is amazing! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Out of ignorance. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> The Bible is not Just a<b> Book. It</b> is a
selection and compilation of many books. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> As opposed to the Qur'an. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">4.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Another word for Interpolating. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">5.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Emphasis are mine.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">6.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Indisputable.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Both these Doctors of Religion are telling us
in the clearest language humanly possible that the Bible is the handiwork of
man, all the while pretending that the are proving to the contrary. An old Arab
saying goes: "IF SUCH ARE THE PRIESTS, GOD BLESS THE CONGREGATION." </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7406759819176673821" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7406759819176673821" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With this sort of drive, the hot-gospeller
and the Bible-thumper is "inspired" to harry the "heathen."</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> A
theological student — a not-yet-qualified young evangelist — from the
University of Witwatersrand, became a frequent visitor to the Newtown Mosque in
Johannesburg, with the "noble" thought of "witnessing"</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> to the
members of its congregation. When I was introduced to him, (and having learnt
his purpose), I invited him to lunch at my brother's residence — a
stone's-throw from the Mosque. While discussing the authenticity of the Bible
over the dinner table and sensing his stubborn dogmatism, I put out a feeler: "Your<b>
Professor</b> Geyser, (The Head of the Department of Theology) does not believe
the Bible to be the Word of God." Without the slightest surprise he
answered, "I know." Now I personally had no knowledge of the
Professor's conviction about the Bible. I had only assumed so from a
controversy which raged around him about the "Divinity of Christ."</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 3</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> He had
taken issue with the orthodox believers on this point some years ago. I
continued further, saying, "Your<b> lecturer</b> does not believe the
Bible as being God's Word." The young evangelist, responded again, "I
know" but he continued this time-with the words,<b> "but I believe</b>
that it is the Word of God!" There is no real remedy for such people. Even
Jesus bewailed this sickness: </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"... seeing they see not; and hearing
they hear not, neither do they understand."</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <i>(Matthew 13:13) </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Al-Qur'an, the Holy Book of God, also
condemns this mulish mentality: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">These pages are now addressed to those
sincerely humble souls, who are genuinely interested in seeking the Light of
God, and who wish to be guided by it. As for the other, with a sickness in
their souls, the facts presented herein can only increase the disease of their
hearts. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> See<b> "How Lost are the Heathen?"</b> by
the same MOODY PRESS of Dr. Scroggie. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> When the Christian talks of "witnessing" he
means propagating, proselytizng, converting. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> This subject is dealt extensively in the book — <b><a href="http://www.jamaat.net/cis/christintro.html">"CHRIST IN ISLAM"</a>
</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER TWO</span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE MUSLIMS' STANDPOINT</span></b><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">PRESUMPTUOUS CHRISTIANS </span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Whether Catholic, Protestant or a
"Cultist," of the thousand -and - one - sects - and -
denominations-of-Christianity, never will you find a missionary who will not,<b>
prima facie,</b> presuppose that his potential convert accepts his "Holy
Bible" as the book of final authority on every religious opinion? The only
answer the prospective proselyte has is to quote verses from the Bible which
are contradictory to the missionary's or debate their interpretations. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE DOGGED QUESTION</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When the Muslim proves his point from the
Christian's own <b>Holy</b> Scripture, and when the professional priest, parson
or predikant cannot refute the arguments — the inevitable Christian evasion is
— "DO YOU ACCEPT THE BIBLE AS GOD'S WORD? On the face of it, the question
seems to be an easy one, but a simple "Yes" or "No" cannot
be given as an answer. You see, one has first to explain one's position. But
the Christian will not give one the opportunity. He gets impatient.
"Answer — 'Yes or No!' " he insists. The Jews did the same to Jesus
two thousand years ago, except that surprisingly he was not strait-jacketed, as
is the fashion today! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The reader will readily agree that things are
not always either BLACK or WHITE. Between these two extremes there are various
shades of GREY. If you say "Yes" to his question, then it would mean
that you are prepared to swallow everything HOOK, LINE and SINKER, from<b>
Genesis</b> to<b> Revelation</b> from his Bible. If you respond with a
"No" he quickly unhooks himself from the facts you have presented,
and rallies support from his co-religionists in the audience with; "You
see, this man does not believe in the Bible! What right has he to expound his
case from our Book?" With this hydra-like somersault he rests content that
he has safely evaded the issue. What is the<b> Muballigh</b></span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">to do?
He has to explain his position<b> vis-a-vis</b> the Bible, as he ought to do. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> MUBALLIGH: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Propagator of Islam</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THREE GRADES OF EVIDENCE</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Muslims have no hesitation in acknowledging that in the Bible, there are three
different kinds of witnessing recognizable without any need of specialized
training. These are: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. You will be able to recognize in the Bible
what may be described as<b> "The Word of God."</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. You will also be able to discern what can
be described as the <b>"Words of a Prophet of God."</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. And you will most readily observe that the
bulk of the Bible is the records of eye witnessess or ear witnesses, or people
writing from hearsay. As such they are the<b> "Words of a Historian"</b>
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You do not have to hunt for examples of these
different types of evidences in the Bible. The following quotations will make
the position crystal clear: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The<b> FIRST</b> Type: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(a) </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> will raise them up a
prophet . . . and </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> will put my words in ... and he shall speak unto them
all that </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> shall command him." (Deuteronomy 18:18) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(b) </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> even, </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
am the Lord, and beside<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">me</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> there is no
saviour." (Isaiah 43:11) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(c) "Look unto </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">me</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">,
and be ye saved, all the end of the earth: for </span><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
am God, and there is non else." (Isaiah 45:22) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Note the first person pronoun singular
(highlighted in green) in the above references, and without any difficulty you
will agree that the statements seem to have the sound of being GOD'S WORD. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The<b> SECOND</b> Type: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(a) <b><i>"Jesus cried</i></b> with a
loud voice, saying <b><i>Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?</i></b> . . ."
(Matthew 27:46) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(b) "And<b> Jesus answered him</b>, The
first of all the commandments is, <b>Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one
Lord:"</b> (Mark 12:29)
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(c) "And<b> Jesus said</b> unto him, Why
callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God." (Mark 10:18). </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Even a child will be able to affirm that:
Jesus<b> "cried"</b> Jesus <b>"answered"</b> and Jesus<b>
"said"</b> are the words of the one to whom they are attributed, i.e.
the WORDS OF A PROPHET OF GOD. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The<b> THIRD</b> Type: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"And seeing a fig tree afar off having
leaves, <b>he</b>, (JESUS) came, if haply <b>he</b> (JESUS) might find anything
thereon: and when he (JESUS) came<b> to it,</b> (Jesus) found nothing but
leaves . . ." (Mark 11:13)
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The bulk of the Bible is a witnessing of this<b>
THIRD</b> kind. These are the words of a<b> third</b> person. Note the
underlined pronouns. They are not the Words of God or of His prophet, but the
WORDS OF A HISTORIAN. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For the Muslim it is quite easy to
distinguish the above types of evidence, because he also has them in his own
faith. But of the followers of the different religions, he is the most
fortunate in this that his various records are contained in <b>separate</b>
Books! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ONE:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> The first kind — THE WORD OF GOD — is found in a Book called<b> The
Holy Qur’an.</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">TWO:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> The second kind — THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET OF GOD, (Muhummed, may the
peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) are recorded in the Books of
Tradition called<b> The Hadith.</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">THREE:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Evidence of the third kind abounds in different volume of Islamic
history, written by some of high integrity and learning, and others of lesser
trustworthiness, but the Muslim advisedly keeps his Books in separate volumes! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Muslim keeps the above three types of
evidence Jealously apart, in their proper gradations of authority. He never
equates them. On the other hand, the "Holy Bible" contains a motley
type of literature, which composes the embarrassing kind, the sordid, and the
obscene — all under the same cover — A Christian is forced to concede equal
spiritual import and authority to all, and is thus unfortunate in this regard. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER THREE</span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE MULTIPLE BIBLE VERSIONS</span></b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It will now be easy for us to analyze a
Christian's claim about his Holy Book. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM
THE CHAFF</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Before we scrutinize the various versions,
let us clarify our own belief regarding the Books of God. When we say that we
believe in the<b> Tauraat,</b> the<b> Zaboor,</b> the<b> Injeel</b> and the<b>
Qur'an, </b>what do we really mean? We already know that the Holy Qur'an is the
infallible Word of God, revealed to our Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhummed Mustapha
(Peace be upon him) word for word, through the agency of the Archangel
Jibraeel, (known as Gabriel in English), and perfectly preserved and protected
from human tampering for the past fourteen hundred years!</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Even
hostile critics of Islam have grudgingly vouched for the purity of the Holy
Qur'an: <b>"THERE IS PROBABLY IN THE WORLD NO OTHER BOOK WHICH HAS
REMAINED TWELVE CENTURIES </b>(now fourteen) <b>WITH SO PURE A TEXT."</b>
— (Sir William Muir) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The<b> Tauraat</b> we Muslims believe in is
not the "Torah" of the Jews and the Christians, though the words —
one Arabic, the other Hebrew — are the same. We believe that whatever the Holy
Prophet Moses (Peace be upon him) preached to his people, was the revelation
from God Almighty, but that Moses was <b>not</b> the author of those
"books" attributed to him by the Jews and the Christians.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 2</span></sup></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Likewise, we believe that the<b> Zaboor</b>
was the revelation of God granted to Hazrat Dawood (David) (Peace be upon him),
but that the present Psalms associated with his name are<b> not</b> that
revelation. The Christians themselves do<b> not</b> insist that David is the
sole author of "his" Psalms.3 </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Whether Muslim or non-Muslim, you do not have lo
accept this claim on <b>faith</b> alone. You<b> can</b> verify the fact that
Al-Qur'an is the Word of God. See <b>"AL-QURAN- The Miracle of
Miracles";</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2-</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> More evidence later on — "Moses not the author
of the Biblical<b> "Torah."</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">. Later on you’ll read how Christian "Brains
Trust" confess — "Author; Principally David, <b>though there are
other writers."</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What about the<b> Injeel?</b> INJEEL means
the "Gospel" or "good news" which Jesus Christ preached
during his short ministry. The "Gospel" writers often mention that
Jesus going about and preaching the Gospel (the<b> Injeel):</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. "And Jesus went . . . preaching the<b>
gospel</b> . . . and healing every disease among the people." </span><b><i>(Matthew
9:35)</i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. "... but whosoever shall lose his
fife for my sake and the <b>gospel's,</b> the same shall save it." </span><b><i>(Mark
8:35)</i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. "... preached the<b> gospel. .</b>
." </span><b><i>(Luke 20:1)</i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The "gospel" is a frequently-used
word, but what Gospel did Jesus preach? Of the 27 books of the New Testament,
only a small fraction can be accepted as the words of Jesus. The Christians
boast about the Gospels according to St. Matthew, according to St. Mark,
according to St. Luke and according to St. John,
but there is not a single Gospel<b> "according"</b> to (St.) Jesus himself! We<b> sincerely</b> believe that
everything Christ (May the peace and blessings of God be upon him) preached was
from God. That was the<b> Injeel,</b> the good news and the guidance of God for
the Children of Israel. In his life-time Jesus never wrote a single word, nor
did he instruct anyone to do so. What passes off as the "GOSPELS"
today are the works of anonymous hands! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The question before us is:<b> "Do you
accept that the Bible is God's Word?"</b> The question is really in the
form of a challenge. The questioner is not simply seeking enlightenment. The
question is posed in the spirit of a debate. We have every right to demand in a
similar vein — "Which Bible are you talking about?", we may ask.
"Why, there is only ONE Bible!" he mutters. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE CATHOLIC BIBLE</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Holding the<b> "Douay"</b>
Roman Catholic Version of the Bible aloft in my hand, I ask, "Do<b> YOU</b>
accept<b> THIS</b> Bible as the Word of God?" For reasons best known to
themselves, the Catholic Truth Society have published their Version of the
Bible in a very short, stumpy form. This Version is a very odd proportion of
the numerous Versions in the market today. The Christian questioner is taken
aback. "What Bible is that?" he asks. "Why, I thought you said
that there was only ONE Bible!" I remind him. "Y-e-s," he
murmurs hesitantly, "but what Version is that?" "Why, would that
make any difference?" I enquire. Of course it does, and the professional
preacher knows that it does. He is only bluffing with his "ONE Bible"
claim. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Roman Catholic Bible was published at Rheims in 1582, from Jerome's Latin Vulgate and reproduced
at Douay in 1609. As such the RCV (Roman
Catholic Version) is the oldest Version that one can still buy today. Despite
its antiquity, the whole of the Protestant world, including the
"cults"</span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 13.5pt;">*</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> condemn the RCV because it contains seven extra
"books" which they contemptuously refer to as the<b>
"apocrypha"</b> i.e. of DOUBTFUL AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding the dire
warning contained in the Apocalypse, which is the last book in the RCV (renamed
as <b>"Revelation"</b> by the Protestants), it is
"revealed": </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">". . . If any man shall add to
these things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(or delete)<b> <i>God shall add unto him the plagues
written in this Book."</i></b><br />
</span><b><i>(Revelation 22:18-19) </i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But who cares! They do not really believe!
The Protestants have bravely<b> expunged seven whole books</b> from their Book
of God! The outcasts are: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Book of Judith<br />
The Book of Tobias<br />
The Book of Baruch<br />
The Buck of Esther, etc. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 13.5pt;">*</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">This
disparaging title is given by the orthodox to Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh
Day Adventists and a thousand other sects and denominations with whom they do
not see eye to eye. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE PROTESTANT BIBLE</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Sir Winston Churchill has some pertinent
things to say about the Authorised Version (AV) of the Protestant Bible, which
is also widely known as the "King James Version (KJV)". </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"THE AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE WAS
PUBLISHED IN 1611 BY THE<b> WILL</b> AND<b> COMMAND</b> OF<b> HIS MAJESTY</b>
KING JAMES THE 1ST WHOSE NAME IT BEARS TILL TODAY." </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Roman Catholics, believing as they do
that the Protestants have mutilated the Book of God, are yet aiding and
abetting the Protestant "crime" by forcing their native converts to
purchase the Authorised Version (AV) of the Bible, which is the only Bible
available in some 1500 languages of the lesser developed nations of the world.
The Roman Catholics milk their cows, but the feeding is left to the
Protestants! The overwhelming majority of Christians — both Catholics and
Protestant — use the<b> Authorised</b> (AV) or the<b> King James Version</b>
(KJV) as it is alternatively called. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">GLOWING TRIBUTES</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">First published, as Sir Winston says, in
1611, and then revised in 1881 (RV), and now re-revised and brought up to date
as the <b>Revised Standard Version</b> (RSV) 1952, and now again re-re-revised
in 1971 (still RSV for short). Let us see what opinion Christendom has of this
most revised Bible, the RSV:- </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. "THE FINEST VERSION WHICH HAS BEEN
PRODUCED IN THE PRESENT CENTURY."<b> — (Church of England Newspaper)</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. "A COMPLETELY FRESH TRANSLATION BY
SCHOLARS OF THE HIGHEST EMINENCE." —<b> (Times literary Supplement)</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. "THE WELL-LOVED CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE AUTHORISED VERSION COMBINED WITH A NEW ACCURACY OF TRANSLATION." —<b>
(Life and Work)</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">4. "THE MOST ACCURATE AND CLOSE
RENDERING OF THE ORIGINAL"<b> — (The Times)</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The publishers (Collins) themselves, in their
notes on the Bible at the end of their production, say on page 10: "THIS
BIBLE <b>(RSV)</b>, IS THE PRODUCT OF<b> THIRTY-TWO SCHOLARS, </b>ASSISTED BY
AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPRESENTING<b> FIFTY </b>CO-OPERATING
DENOMINATIONS." Why all this boasting? To make the gullible public buy
their product? All these testimonies convince the purchaser that he is backing
the right horse, with the purchaser little suspecting that he is being taken
for a ride. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">"THE WORLD'S BEST
SELLER"</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But what about the Authorised Version of the
Bible (AV), the "World's Best Seller?" These Revisers, all good
salesmen, have some very pretty things to say about it. However, their page
iii, paragraph six of the PREFACE of the RSV reads;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"THE KING JAMES VERSION (alternative
description of AV) HAS WITH GOOD REASON BEEN TERMED<b> 'THE NOBLEST MONUMENT OF ENGLISH PROSE.’</b> ITS REVISERS IN 1881
EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR<b> 'ITS SIMPLICITY, ITS DIGNITY, ITS POWER, ITS HAPPY
TURNS OF EXPRESSION ... THE MUSIC OF ITS CADENCES, AND THE FELICITIES OF ITS
RHYTHM.’</b> IT ENTERED, AS NO OTHER BOOK HAS, INTO THE MAKING OF THE PERSONAL
CHARACTER AND THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. WE OWE
TO IT AN INCALCULABLE DEBT." </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Can you, dear reader, imagine a more
magnificent tribute being paid to the "Book of Books" than the above?
I, for one, cannot. Let the believing Christian, now steel himself for the
un-kindest blow of all from his own beloved Lawyers of Religion; for in the
very same breath they say: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"YET THE KING JAMES VERSION HAS GRAVE
DEFECTS." And, "THAT THESE DEFECTS ARE<b> SO MANY AND SO SERIOUS</b>
AS TO CALL FOR REVISION . . ." This is straight from the horse's mouth,
i.e. the orthodox Christian scholars of "the highest eminence."
Another galaxy of Doctors of Divinity are now required to produce an
encyclopaedia explaining the cause of those GRAVE AND SERIOUS DEFECTS in their
Holy Writ and their reasons for eliminating them. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">CHAPTER FOUR</span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">FIFTY
THOUSAND ERRORS (?)</span></b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Jehovah's Witnesses in their<b>
"AWAKE!"</b> Magazine dated 8 September, 1957, carried this startling headline —<b>
"50000 ERRORS IN THE BIBLE?"</b> (See below for the reproduction). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">While I was still formulating the theme of
this booklet, I heard a knock at my door one Sunday morning. I opened the door.
A European gentleman stood there, grinning broadly. "Good morning'"
he said. "Good morning" I replied. He was offering me his <b>"Awake"</b>
and<b> "Watchtower"</b> magazines. Yes, a Jehovah's Witness! If a few
had knocked at your door previously, you will recognize them immediately. The
most supercilious lot of people who ever knocked at people's doors! I invited
him in. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">As soon as
he settled down, I produced the full reproduction of what you see below. Pointing
to the monograph </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
at the top of the page, I asked, "Is this your's?" He readily
recognised his own. I said, "It says: 50 000 Errors in the Bible, is it
true?" "What's that!" he exclaimed. I repeated, "I said,
that it says, that there are 50 000 errors in your Bible." "Where did
you get that?" He asked. (This was published 23 years ago, when he was
perhaps a little nipper) I said, "Leave the fancy talk aside — is this
your's?" pointing again to the monograph —<b> "Awake!"</b> He
said, "Can I have a look?" "Of course," I said. I handed
him the page. He started perusing. They (the Jehovah's Witnesses) are trained.
They attend classes five times a week in their "Kingdom Halls."
Naturally, they are the fittest missionaries among the thousand -and - one -
sects - and - denominations of Christendom. They are taught that when cornered,
do not commit yourself to anything, do not open your mouths. Wait for the Holy
Ghost to inspire you with what to say. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">I silently kept watching him, while he
browsed the page. Suddenly he looked up. He had found it. The "Holy
Ghost" had tickled him. He began, "The article says that<b>
"most of those errors have been eliminated."</b> I asked "If<b>
MOST</b> are eliminated, how many remain out of 50000? 5000? 500? 50? Even if
50 remain, do you attribute those errors to God?" He was speechless. He
excused himself by suggesting that he will come again with some senior member
of his Church. That will be the day! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If I had this booklet ready, I would have
offered him, saying — "I would like to do you a favour, give me your name
and address, and your telephone number. I will<b> lend</b> you this booklet —<b>
IS THE BIBLE GOD'S WORD?"</b> for 90 days. I want a written reply!"
If you do this, And a few other Muslims do the same. They and the other
missionaries will never darken your doors again. I believe that this
publication will prove the most effective talisman to date.<b> Insha-Allah!</b>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">This "cult" of Jehovah's
Witnesses which is so strong in its condemnation of the orthodox Trinitarians,
for playing with the "Word of God," is itself playing the same game
of semantic gymnastics. In the article under review —<b> "50000 ERRORS</b>
IN<b> THE BIBLE?"</b> — they say: "there are<b> probably</b> 50 000
errors . . . errors that have<b> crept</b> into the Bible text . . . 50000<b>
such serious</b> (?) errors…<b> most</b> of those<b> so-called</b> errors<b>...
as a whole</b> the Bible is accurate." (?) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We do not have the time and space to go
into the tens of thousands of — grave or minor — defects that the authors of
the Revised Standard Version (RSV) have attempted to revise. We leave that
privilege to the Christian scholars of the Bible. Here I will endeavour to cast
just a cursory glance at a "half-a-dozen" or so of those
"minor" changes. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. <i>"Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign: Behold, a VIRGIN shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel."</i> </span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Isaiah 7:14
- AV) </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The indispensable "VIRGIN" in
the above verse has now been replaced in the RSV with the phrase<b> "a
young woman,"</b> which is the correct translation of the Hebrew word<b>
almah.</b> Almah is the word which has occurred all along in the Hebrew text
and NOT <b>bethulah</b> which means VIRGIN. This correction is only to be found
in the English language translation, as the RSV is only published in this
tongue. For the African and the Afrikaner, the Arab and the Zulu, in fact, in
the 1 500 other languages of the world, Christians are made to continue to
swallow the misnomer "VIRGIN." </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">BEGOTTEN, NOT MADE </span></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Jesus is the only begotten son of
God,<b> begotten</b> not<b> made,"</b> is an adjunct of the orthodox
catechism, leaning for support on the following: </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. <i>For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only BEGOTTEN son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life."</i> </span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(John 3:16
- AV) </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">No priest worth his cloth would fail to
quote<b> "the only BEGOTTEN of the Father!"</b> when preaching to a
prospective convert. But this fabrication — "BEGOTTEN" — has now been
unceremoniously excised by the Bible Revisers, without a word of excuse. They
are as silent as church-mice and would not draw the reader's attention to their
furtive excision. This blasphemous word "BEGOTTEN" was another of the
many such interpolations in the "Holy Bible." God Almighty condemned
this blasphemy in the strongest terms soon after its innovation. He did not
wait for 2000 years for Bible scholars to reveal the fraud. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Muslim World should congratulate the<b>
"Fifty cooperating denominations"</b> of Christendom and their Brains
Trust the<b> "Thirty-two scholars of the highest eminence"</b> for
bringing their Holy Bible a degree nearer to the Qur-anic truth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">
</span><b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">"CHRISTIAN
MES-A-MATHICS"</span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">3.<b><i> "For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the FATHER,</i></b><i><br />
<b>the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these three are</b> <b>one."</b> </i></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">1st Epistle of John 5:7 - AV</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">This verse is the closest approximation to
what the Christians call their<b> Holy Trinity</b> in the encyclopaedia called
the BIBLE. This key-stone of the Christian faith has also been scrapped from
the RSV without even a semblance of explanation. It has been a pious fraud all
along and well-deservedly has it been expunged in the RSV for the
English-speaking people. But for the 1499 remaining language groups of the
world who read the Christian concoctions in their mother tongues, the fraud
remains. These people will never know the truth until the Day of Judgement.
However, we Muslims must again congratulate the galaxy of D.D.’s who have been
honest enough to eliminate another lie from the English (RSV) Bible, thus
bringing their Holy Book yet another step closer to the teachings of Islam. For
the Holy Qur'an says: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">*</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Not one in a trinity. Not one in a trinity.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE ASCENSION</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">One of the most serious of those<b>
"grave defects"</b> which the authors of the RSV had tried to rectify
concerned the Ascension of Christ. There have been only two references in the
Canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and of John to the most stupendous
event in Christianity — OF JESUS BEING TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN. These two
references were obtained in every Bible in every language, prior to 1952, when
the RSV first appeared. These were: </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">4a. <i>"So then the Lord Jesus, after
he had spoken to them, was TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN, and sat down at the right hand
of God."</i> </span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Mark 16:19)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">4b. <i>"While he blessed them, he
parted from them, and was CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN." </i></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Luke 24:51) </span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now please look at the image below, which
is a photo copy where the quotation 4a above ought to appear. You will be
shocked to note that Mark 16 ends at verse<b> 8,</b> and after an embarrassing
expanse of blank space the missing verses appear in "small print" as
a footnote at the bottom of the page. If you can lay your hands on a RSV<b>
1952,</b> you will find the last six words of 4b above, i.e. <b>"AND WAS
CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN"</b> replaced by a tiny "a" to tell you
to see the footnote if you please, where you will find these missing words.
Every honest Christian has to admit that he does not consider any footnote in
any Bible as the word of God. Why should the paid servants of Christianity
consign the mightiest miracle of their religion to a mere footnote? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">From the Chart —<b> "The Origin and
Growth of the English</b> Bible" — appearing below, you will note that all
the Biblical "Versions" prior to the Revised Version of 1881 were
dependent upon the ANCIENT COPIES — those dating only five or six hundred years
after Jesus. The Revisers of the RSV 1952, were the first Bible scholars who
were able to tap the<b> "MOST Ancient</b> Copies" fully, dating three
and four centuries after Christ. We agree that the closer to the source the
more authentic is the document. Naturally "MOST" Ancient deserves
credence more than mere "ANCIENT." But not finding a word about Jesus
being<b> "taken up"</b> or<b> "carried up"</b> into heaven
in the MOST ANCIENT manuscripts, the Christian fathers expurgated those
references from the RSV<b> 1952.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE DONKEY CIRCUS </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The above facts are a staggering confession
by Christendom that the <b>"inspired"</b> authors of the Canonical
Gospels did not record a single word about the ASCENSION of Jesus- Yet these <b>"inspired"</b>
authors were unanimous in recording that their Lord and Saviour rode a donkey
into Jerusalem
as his mission drew to a close. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">". .
. and they sat him thereon."</span></i></b><span style="color: black;">
(The Donkey) </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Matt. 21:7)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">". .
. and he sat upon him." </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(The Donkey)<b><i> </i></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Mark 11:7)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">". .
. and they set Jesus Thereon."</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(The Donkey)<b><i>
</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Luke 19:35)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">". . .
Jesus ... sat thereon:" </span></b><span style="color: black;">(The
Donkey)<b> </b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(John 12:14)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Could God Almighty have been the author of
this incongruous situation — going out of His Way to see that all the Gospel
writers did not miss their footing recording of His "son's"
donkey-ride into the Holy City — and yet "inspiring" them to black-out
the news about His "son's" heavenly flight on the wings of angels? </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">NOT FOR LONG! </span></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The<b> hot-gospellers</b> and the<b>
Bible-thumpers</b> were too slow in catching the Joke. By the time they
realised that the corner-stone of their preaching — THE ASCENSION OF JESUS —
had been undermined as a result of Christian Biblical erudition, the publishers
of the RSV had already raked in a net profit of 15 000 000 dollars! (Fifteen
Million). The propagandists made a big hue and cry, and with the backing of two
denominational committees out of the fifty, forced the Publishers to
re-incorporate the interpolations into the "INSPIRED" Word of God in
every new publication of the RSV after 1952, the expunged portion was
"RESTORED TO THE TEXT." </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is an old, old game. The Jews and the
Christians have been editing their "Book of God" from its very
inception. The difference between them and the ancient forgerers is that the
ancient forgers did not know the art of writing "prefaces" and
"footnotes", otherwise they too would have told us as clearly as our
modern heroes have about their tampering, and their glib excuses for
transmuting forged currency into glittering gold. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"MANY PROPOSALS FOR MODIFICATION WERE
SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE BY INDIVIDUALS AND BY TWO DENOMINATIONAL COMMITTEES ALL
OF THESE WERE GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION BY THE COMMITTEE. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"TWO PASSAGES, THE I LONGER ENDING OF
MARK (16:9-20) . . . AND LUKE 24:51 ARE<b> RESTORED</b> TO THE TEXT."<b><br />
(Preface — Collins' pages vi and vii)</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Why<b> 'restored'"?</b> Because
they had been previously expunged! Why had the references to the Ascension
expunged in the first place? The<b> MOST</b> Ancient manuscripts had no
references to the Ascension at all. They were interpolations similar to </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 John 5:7</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> about the Trinity. (Refer to the earlier example 3). Why eliminate
one and re-instate the other? Do not be surprised! By the time you lay your
hands on a RSV, the "Committee" might also have decided to expunge
the whole of their invaluable Preface. The Jehovah's Witnesses have already
eliminated 27 revealing pages of their FOREWORD to their <b>"New World Translation of the CHRISTIAN GREEK
SCRIPTURES,"</b> (this is their way of saying — New Testament). </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">ALLAH IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE</span></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Rev. C. I. Scofield, D. D. with a team
of 8 Consulting Editors, also all D.D.’s in the<b> "Scofield Reference
Bible" </b>thought it appropriate to spell the Hebrew word<b>
"Elah"</b> (meaning<b> God)</b> alternatively as<b> "Alah"</b>
The Christians had thus swallowed the camel — they seemed to have accepted at
last that the name of God is Allah — but were still straining at the gnat by
spelling Allah with one "L"! (Photographic reproduction of the Bible
page showing the word<b> "ALAH"</b> is preserved here for posterity
below). References were made in public lectures to this fact by the author of
this booklet. Believe me, the subsequent<b> "Scofield Reference
Bible"</b> has retained word for word the whole commentary of Genesis 1:1,
but has, by a clever sleight-of-hand, blotted out the word<b> "Alah"</b>
altogether. There is not even a gap where the word<b> "Alah"</b> once
used to be.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> This is in the Bible of the orthodox! One
is hard pressed to keep up with their Jugglery. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> See <b><a href="http://www.jamaat.net/name/nameintro.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"WHAT IS HIS NAME"</span></a></b>
for more information on this Biblical omission of the word Allah. Under the
section of "Now you see it, now you don’t". </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER
FIVE</span></u><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">DAMNING
CONFESSIONS</span></b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mrs. Ellen G. White, a "prophetess"
of the Seventh Day Adventist
Church, in her Bible
Commentary Vol. 1, page 14, has this confession to make about the fallibility
of the "Holy Bible." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"THE BIBLE WE READ TODAY IS THE WORK
OF MANY COPYISTS WHO HAVE IN MOST INSTANCES DONE THEIR WORK WITH MARVELLOUS
ACCURACY. BUT COPYISTS HAVE <b>NOT BEEN INFALLIBLE,</b> AND GOD MOST EVIDENTLY
HAS<b> NOT SEEN FIT</b> TO PRESERVE THEM ALTOGETHER<b> FROM ERROR</b> IN
TRANSCRIBING." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the following pages of her commentary,
Mrs. White testifies further: "I SAW THAT GOD HAD ESPECIALLY GUARDED THE
BIBLE" (from what?) "YET WHEN COPIES OF IT WERE FEW, LEARNED MEN HAD
IN SOME INSTANCES<b> CHANGED THE WORDS,</b> THINKING THAT THEY WERE MAKING IT
PLAIN, WHEN IN REALITY THEY WERE <b>MYSTIFYING</b> THAT WHICH WAS PLAIN, BY
CAUSING IT TO <b>LEAN TO THEIR ESTABLISHED VIEWS,</b> WHICH WERE GOVERNED BY
TRADITION." </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">DEVELOPED SICKNESS</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The mental malady is a cultivated one.
This authoress and her followers can still trumpet from roof tops that<b>
"Truly, the Bible is the infallible Word of God." "Yes, it is
adulterated, but pure" "It is human, yet divine."</b> Do words
have any meaning in their language? Yes, they have in their courts of law, but
not in their theology. They carry a "poetic licence" in their
preaching. </span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE WITNESSES </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The most vociferous of all the
Bible-thumpers are the Jehovah's Witnesses. On page 5 of their
"FOREWORD" mentioned earlier, they confess: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"IN COPYING THE INSPIRED ORIGINALS BY
HAND THE ELEMENT OF<b> HUMAN FRAILTY</b> ENTERED IN, AND SO NONE OF THE
THOUSANDS OF COPIES EXTANT TODAY IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE<b> ARE PERFECT
DUPLICATES.</b> THE RESULT IS THAT<b> NO TWO</b> COPIES ARE<b> EXACTLY
ALIKE"</b> Now you see, why the whole "foreword" of 27 pages is
eliminated from their Bibles. Allah was making them to hang themselves with
their own erudition. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">POT-LUCK </span></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Out of over four thousand differing
manuscripts the Christians boast about, the Church fathers just selected four
which tallied with their prejudices and called them Gospels of Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John. We will deal with each of them in their proper place.<b> Here/
let</b> us go over the conclusion of the Jehovah's Witnesses' research as
recorded in the now expunged Foreword: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"THE EVIDENCE IS, THEREFORE, THAT THE
ORIGINAL TEXT Of THE CHRISTIAN GREEK SCRIPTURES </span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH,</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> THE SAME AS THE TEXT OF THE LXX</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE SAME AS THE TEXT OF THE LXX</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> HAS BEEN," </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yet this incorrigible Cult has the
effrontery to publish 9 000 000 (Nine Million) copies as a First Edition of a
192-page book entitled —<b> "Is the Bible REALLY the Word of God?"</b>
We are dealing here with a sick mentality, for no amount of tampering, as they
say, will "APPRECIABLY AFFECT THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BIBLE" (?).
This is Christian logic. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> New Testament.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> "LXX"</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> meaning<b> Seventy,</b> is the JWs alternative title of the Old
Testament Do not be mystified; they have a habit of calling a simple four
letter word, a "tetragrammaton."</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">meaning<b> Seventy,</b> is the JWs
alternative title of the Old Testament Do not be mystified; they have a habit
of calling a simple four letter word, a "tetragrammaton."</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">A PATIENT HEARING</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. Graham Scroggie in his aforementioned
book, pleads, on page 29. for the Bible:- </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"AND LET US BE PERFECTLY FAIR AS WE
PURSUE THE SUBJECT (Is the Bible the Word of God?). BEARING IN MIND THAT WE ARE
TO HEAR<b> WHAT THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT</b> <b>ITSELF.</b> IN A COURT OF LAW
WE ASSUME THAT A WITNESS WILL SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND MUST ACCEPT WHAT HE SAYS
UNLESS WE HAVE GOOD GROUNDS FOR SUSPECTING HIM, OR CAN PROVE HIM A LIAR. SURELY
THE BIBLE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE SAME OPPORTUNITY
TO BE HEARD, AND SHOULD RECEIVE A LIKE PATIENT HEARING." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The plea is fair and reasonable. We will
do exactly as he asks and let the Bible speak for itself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the first five books of the Bible —<b>
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy —</b> there are more than
700 statements which prove not only that God is<b> NOT</b> the Author of these
books, but that EVEN Moses himself had no hand in them. Open these books at
random and you will see: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">• "And the<b> Lord said unto him.</b>
Away, get thee down . . ." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">• "And<b> Moses said unto the Lord,</b>
the people cannot come. . ." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">• "And the<b> Lord said unto Moses,</b>
Go on before the people . . ." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">• "And the<b> Lord spake unto Moses,</b>
saying . . ." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">• "And the<b> Lord said unto Moses,</b>
Get down, charge the<b> . . ." </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is manifest and apparent that these are<b>
NEITHER</b> the Words of God<b> NOR</b> of Moses. They indicate the voice of a
third person writing from hearsay. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">MOSES WRITES HIS OWN OBITUARY?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Could Moses had been a contributor to his
own obituary before his demise? Did the Jews write their own obituaries?<b>
"So Moses . . . DIED . . . And he</b> (God Almighty)<b> BURIED HIM </b>(Moses)<b>
... he was 120 years old when he DIED ... And there arose not a prophet SINCE
in Israel like unto Moses …"</b> </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Deut.
34:5-10)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. We will
analyze the rest of the Old Testament presently from other angles. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #804040; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER
SIX</span></u><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE BOOK
CHRISTENED "THE NEW TESTAMENT"</span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHY "ACCORDING TO?" </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">What about the so-called New Testament?</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Why does every Gospel begin with the introduction — ACCORDING TO
... ACCORDING TO ... (See below). Why<b> "according to?" </b>Because
not a single one of the vaunted four thousand copies extant carries its
author's autograph! Hence the supposition<b> "according to!"</b> Even
the internal evidence proves that Matthew was not the author of the first
Gospel which bears his name. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"And as Jesus passed forth thence,<b>
HE</b> (JESUS) saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and<b>
HE</b> (JESUS) saith unto<b> HIM</b> (MATTHEW), follow<b> ME</b> (JESUS) And<b>
HE </b>(MATTHEW) arose, and followed<b> HIM</b> (JESUS)." </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">(Matthew 9:9) </span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> The "so-called,"</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">because
nowhere does the "New Testament" calls itself the New Testament, and
nowhere the Old Testament calls itself the Old<b> Testament. </b>And also the
word "Bible" is unknown<b> within the pages</b> of the Bible.<b> God
forgot to give a title to "HIS" books!</b> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Without any stretch of the imagination,
one can see that the <b>"He's"</b> and the<b> "Him's"</b>
of the above narration do not refer to Jesus or Matthew as its author, but some
third person writing what he saw and heard — a hearsay account. If we cannot
even attribute this "book of dreams" (as the first Gospel is also
described) to the disciple Matthew, how can we accept it as the Word of God? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> ST. MATHEW 9 </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mathew Called</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">9. And as Jesus passed forth from thence, <u>he</u><br />
saw a man named Mathew, sitting at the receipt<br />
of custom: and <u>he</u> saith unto <u>him</u>, follow me. And <u>he</u>
arose, and followed <u>him</u>.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"HE"</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;">AND</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <u>"HIM"</u><br />
NOT MATHEW!</span></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"HE" </span></u><span style="color: black;">AND</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <u>"HIM"</u><br />
NOT JOHN!</span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ST.
JOHN</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">
19</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">35. And <u>he</u> that saw it bare
record,<br />
and <u>his</u> record is true: and <u>he</u> knoweth<br />
that <u>he</u> saith true, that ye might believe. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ST. JOHN</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> 21 </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">24. This is the disciple which
testifieth<br />
of these things, and wrote these things:<br />
and we know that his testimony is true. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Conclusion</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">25. And there are also many other things<br />
which Jesus did, the which, <u>if they should<br />
be written every one</u>, I suppose that <u>even<br />
the world itself could not contain the books<br />
that should be written</u>. Amen. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We are not alone in this discovery that
Matthew did not write the<b> "Gospel according to St. Matthew"</b>
and that it was written by some anonymous hand. J. B. Phillips concurs with us
in our findings. He is the paid servant of the Anglican Church, a prebendary of
the Chichester Cathedral, England.
He would have no reason to lie or betray to the detriment of the official view
of his Church! Refer to his introduction to the "Gospel of St.
Matthew" (reproduced here below). Phillips has this to say about its
authorship. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"EARLY TRADITION ASCRIBED THIS GOSPEL
TO THE APOSTLE MATTHEW, BUT SCHOLARS NOWADAYS<b> ALMOST ALL REJECT THIS
VIEW."</b> In other words, St. Matthew did not write the Gospel which
bears his name. This is the finding of Christian scholars of the highest
eminence — not of Hindus, Muslims and Jews who may be accused of bias. Let our
Anglican friend continue: "THE AUTHOR, WHOM WE STILL CAN CONVENIENTLY CALL
MATTHEW"<b> "Conveniently"</b> because otherwise everytime we
made a reference to "Matthew" we would have to say —<b> "THE
FIRST BOOK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT"</b> Chapter so and so, verse so and so.
And again and again<b> "The first book . . ."</b> etc. Therefore,
according to J. B. Phillips it is<b> convenient</b> that we give the book some
name. So why not "Matthew?" Suppose its as good a name as any other!
Phillips continues: "THE AUTHOR HAS PLAINLY DRAWN ON <b>THE MYSTERIOUS 'Q'</b>
WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A COLLECTION OF ORAL TRADITIONS." What is this<b>
"mysterious 'Q'?"</b> "Q" is short for the German word<b>
"quella"</b> which means <b>"sources."</b> There is
supposed to be another document — a common source — to which our present Matthew,
Mark and Luke had access. All these three authors, whoever they were, had a
common eye on the material at hand. They were writing as if looking through <b>"one"</b>
eye. And because they saw eye to eye, the first three "Gospels" came
to be known as the Synoptic Gospels. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHOLESALE CRIBBING</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But what about that<b>
"inspiration"</b> business? The Anglican prebendary has hit the nail
on the head. He is, more than anyone else, entitled to do so. A paid servant of
the Church, an orthodox evangelical Christian, a Bible scholar of repute,
having direct access to the "original" Greek manuscripts, let HIM
spell it out for us. (Notice how gently he lets the cat out of the bag):<b>
"HE </b>(Matthew)<b> HAS USED MARK'S GOSPEL FREELY"</b> which in the
language of the school-teacher —<b> "has been copying WHOLESALE from
Mark!"</b> Yet the Christians call this wholesale plagiarism the Word of
God? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Does it not make you wonder that an
eye-witness and an ear-witness to the ministry of Jesus, which the disciple
Matthew was supposed to be, instead of writing his own first hand impressions
of the ministry of "his Lord" would go and steal from the writings of
a youth (Mark), who was a ten year old lad when Jesus upbraided his nation? Why
would an eye-witness and ear-witness copy from a fellow who himself was writing
from hearsay? The disciple Matthew would not do any such silly thing. For an
anonymous document has been imposed on the fair name of Matthew. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">PLAGIARISM OR LITERARY KIDNAPPING </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Plagiarism means literary theft. Someone
copies ad verbatim (word for word) from another's writing and palms it off as
his own, is known as plagiarism. This is a common trait amongst the 40 or so
anonymous authors of the books of the Bible. The Christians boast about a
supposedly common cord amongst the writers of the 66 Protestant booklets and
the writers of the 73 Roman Catholic booklets called the "Holy
Bible." Some common cord there is, for Matthew and Luke, or whoever they
were, had plagiarised 85% word for word from Mark! God Almighty did not dictate
the same wordings to the synoptists (one-eyed). The Christians themselves admit
this, because they do not believe in a verbal inspiration, as the Muslims do
about the Holy Qur'an.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">This 85% plagiarism of Matthew and Luke
pales into insignificance compared to the literary kidnapping of the authors of
the Old Testament where a hundred percent stealing occurs in the so-called Book
of God. Christian scholars of the calibre of Bishop Kenneth Cragg
euphemistically calls this stealing, "reproduction"</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> and take pride in it. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> See<b> "AL-QURAN — The Miracles of Miracles" </b>(coming
soon)</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> See beginning of chapter one for the full quotation.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">PERVERTED STANDARDS </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Scroggie (referred to earlier on) most enthusiastically quotes in
his book</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Scroggie (referred to earlier on) most enthusiastically quotes in
his book</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> a Dr. Joseph Parker for his unique eulogy
of the Bible: </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"WHAT A BOOK IS THE BIBLE IN THE
MATTER OF VARIETY OF CONTENTS! . . . WHOLE PAGES ARE TAKEN UP WITH OBSCURE
NAMES, AND MORE IS TOLD OF A GENEALOGY THAN OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. STORIES ARE
HALF TOLD, AND THE NIGHT
FALLS BEFORE WE CAN TELL
WHERE VICTORY LAY. WHERE IS THERE ANYTHING" (in the Religious Literature
of the world) "TO CORRESPOND WITH THIS?" A beautiful necklace of
words and phrases undoubtedly! It is much ado about nothing, and rank blasphemy
against God Almighty for authorising such an embarrassing hotch potch. Yet the
Christians gloat over the very defects of their book, like Romeo over the
"mole" on Juliet's lip! </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Is the Bible the Word of God?"</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> by the Moody Press. by the Moody Press. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">NOTHING LESS THAN 100%</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">To demonstrate the degree of plagiarism
practised by the "inspired" Bible writers, I asked my audience during
a symposium at the University of Cape Town conducted between myself and
Professor Cumpsty the Head of the Department of Theology on the subject<b>
"Is the Bible God's Word?"</b> to open their Bibles. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Some Christians are very fond of carrying
their Bibles under their arms when religious discussions or debates take place.
They seem to be utterly helpless without this book. At my suggestion a number
of the audience began ruffling the pages. I asked them to open chapter 37 in
the<b> "Book of Isaiah."</b> When the audience was ready, I asked
them to compare my "Isaiah 37" with their "Isaiah 37" while
I read, to see whether they were identical. I began, readingly slowly. Verses
1, 2, 4,10, 15, and so on, until the end of the chapter. I kept on asking after
every verse if what I had been reading, was identical with the verses in their
Bibles. Again and again they chorused — "Yeh!", "Yeh!". At
the end of the chapter with the Bible still open in my hands at the place from
which I had been reading, I made the Chairman to reveal to the audience that I
was not reading from Isaiah 37 at all but from<b> 2 KINGS 19!</b> There was a
terrible consternation in the audience! I had thus established 100% plagiarism
in the "Holy Bible." (See below) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In other words, Isaiah 37 and 2 Kings 19
are identical word for word. Yet they have been attributed to two different
authors, centuries apart, whom the Christians claim have been inspired by God. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is copying whom? Who is stealing from
whom? The 32 renowned Bible scholars of the RSV say that the author of the Book
of Kings is "UNKNOWN!" See later on for a reproduction from the RSV
by<b> "Collins'".</b> These notes on the Bible were prepared and
edited by the Right Rev. David J. Fant, Litt. D., General Secretary of the New York Bible Society.
Naturally, if the Most Reverend gentlemen of Christiandom had an iota of belief
about the Bible being the Word of God, they would have said so, but they
honestly (shamefacedly?) confess:<b> "Author — </b>UNKNOWN!" They are
prepared to pay lip service to Scriptures which could have been penned by any
Tom, Dick or Harry and expect everyone to regard these as the Word of God —
Heaven forbid! </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 24.0pt;">ISAIAH
37</span></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">A</span></b><span style="color: black;">ND it came to pass. when king Hez-e-ki'-ah heard it, that
he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of the lord.<br />
2 And he sent E-li'-a-kim. which <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the 'elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz.<br />
3 And they said unto him. Thus saith Hez-e-ki'-ah, This day <i>is</i> a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy : for the children are come to the
birth, and <i>there is not</i> strength to bring forth.<br />
5 So the servants of king Hez-e-ki'-ah came to Isaiah.<br />
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hez-e-ki'-ah king of Judah, saying. Let not thy God in
whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying. Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.<br />
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?<br />
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed; <i>as</i> Gozan, and Ha-ran. and Rezeph. and the children of Eden which <i>were</i>
in Thel'-a-sar?<br />
14 And Hez-e-ki'-ah received the letter of the hand of the messengers. and
read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the lord, and spread it
before the lord;<br />
15 And Hez-e-ki'-ah prayed before the lord, and said. O lord God of Israel,
which dwellest <i>between</i> the cher'-u-bims. thou art the God. <i>even</i>
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and
earth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">36 So Sen-nach'-er-ib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nin'-e-veh.<br />
37 And it came to pass. as he was worshipping in the house of Nis'-roch his god, that
A-dram'-me-lech and Sha-re'-zer his sons smote him with the sword: and they
escaped into (he land
of Armenia. And
E-sar-had'-don his son reigned in his stead.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">A</span></b><span style="color: black;">ND it came to pass. when king Hez-e-ki'-ah heard <i>it,</i>
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the lord.<br />
2 And he sent E-li'-a-kim. who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.<br />
3 And they said unto him. Thus saith Hez-e-ki'-ah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and <i>there is</i> not strength to bring forth.<br />
5 So the servants of king Hez-e-ki'-ah came to Isaiah.<br />
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hez-e-ki'-ah king of Judah. saying. Let not thy God.
in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saving, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand
of the king of Assyria.<br />
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall thou be
delivered?<br />
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, <i>as</i> Gozan, and Har-an. and Rezeph. and the children of Eden which <i>were</i>
in Te-las'-sar?<br />
14 And Hez-e-ki'-ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers,
and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the lord, and spread it
before the lord.<br />
15 And Hez-e-ki'-ah prayed unto the lord, saying,<br />
16 O lord of hosts. God of Israel.
that dwellest <i>between</i> the cher'-u-bims, thou <i>art</i> the God, <i>even</i>
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and
earth.<br />
37 So Sen-nach'-er-ib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned. and dwelt at Nin'-e-veh.<br />
38 And it came to pass. as he was worshipping in thc_house of Nis'-roch his god, that
A-dram'-me-lecb and Sha-rc'-zcr his sons smote him with the sword; and they
escaped into the land
of Armenia: and
E'-sar-had'-don his son reigned in his stead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">These verses are culled from the Authorised Version, but
you will find the same in every Version. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">NO VERBAL INSPIRATION</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(For a complete list of all the books of
the Bible and their authors, avail yourself of the "Collins'" R.S.V.
'with' its annotations). What have Christian scholars to say about the<b>
"Book of Isaiah?"</b> They say:<b> "MAINLY</b> CREDITED TO ISAIAH.
PARTS <b>MAY HAVE BEEN</b> WRITTEN BY<b> OTHERS"</b> In view of the
confessions of Bible scholars, we will not take poor Isaiah to task. Can we
then nail this<b> plagiarism</b> on the door of God? What blasphemy! Professor
Cumptsy confirmed at question time, at the end of the aforementioned symposium
that the<b> "Christians do not believe in a verbal inspiration of the
Bible"</b> So God Almighty had not absent-mindedly dictated the same tale
twice! Human hands, all too human, had played havoc with this so-called Word of
God — the Bible. Yet, Bible-thumpers will insist that "every word, comma
and full stop of the Bible is God's Word!" </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER
SEVEN</span></u><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE ACID
TEST</span></b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">How do we know that a book claimed to be
from God is really the Book of God? One of the tests, out of many such tests,
is — that a Message emanating from an Omniscient Being MUST be consistent with
itself. It ought to be free from all discrepancies and contradictions. This is
exactly what the<b> LAST</b> TESTAMENT, the Book of God says: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">GOD OR THE DEVIL?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If God Almighty wants us to verify the
authenticity of His Book (The Holy Qur-an) with this acid test, why should we
not apply the very same test to any other Book claiming to be from Him? We do
not want to bamboozle anybody with words as the Christians have been doing. It
would be readily agreed from the references, I have given from Christian
scholars, that they have been proving to us that the Bible is<b> NOT</b> the
Word of God, yet making us believe that they have actually convinced us to the
contrary. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">A classic example of this sickness was in
evidence again only "yesterday" The Anglican synod was in session in
Grahamstown. The Most. Rev. Bill Burnett, the Archbishop was preaching to his
flock. He created confusion in his Anglican community. An erudite Englishman,
addressing a group of learned English priests and bishops, in their own
mother-tongue — English, which his learned colleagues drastically misunderstood:
to such an extent that Mr. McMillan, perhaps also an Anglican, the Editor of an
English daily —<b> "The Natal Mercury"</b> dated December 11, 1979,
had this to say about the confusion the Archbishop had created among his own
learned clergy: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"ARCHBISHOP BURNETTS REMARKS AT THE
SYNOD WERE <b>HARDLY A MODEL OF CLARITY</b> AND WERE<b> WIDELY</b> AND <b>DRAMATICALLY
MISINTERPRETED</b> BY MANY OF THOSE PRESENT." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is nothing wrong with English as a
language, but can't you see that the Christian is trained in muddled thinking in
all matters religious. The "bread" in his Holy Communion is not
"bread" but "flesh?" The "wine" is
"blood?" "Three is one?" and "Human is Divine?"
But don't make a mistake, he is not that simple when dealing with the earthly
kingdom, he is then most precise. You will have to be doubly careful when
entering into a contract with him! He can have you sold out, without you
realising it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The examples that I shall furnish in
substantiating the points I have raised about the contradictions in the
so-called Book of God, would be found so easy even for a child to follow and
understand. See below. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">II SAMUEL
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Numbering</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 18.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">ND again the anger of the <b><u>LORD</u></b><u> </u>was kindled
against Israel,
and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">While the author of Samuel 24
above, makes God the boss of the situation, the author of Chronicles below
gives credit to the Devil.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
CHRONICLES 21</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Numbering</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 18.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">ND <b><u>SATAN</u></b> stood up against Israel, and
provoked David to number Israel.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Apart from showing allegiance to God as is
noted elsewhere, the <b>Devil</b> (Satan) is also given his due. This dichotomy
on the part of the author of Chronicles reminds one of the story of the old
woman who lit one candle to St. Michael and another to the devil. St. Michael
was trampling underfoot, so that whether she went to Heaven or Hell, she would
have a friend. This Chronicles fellow, made sure that he had a friend at court
Above, as well as a friend at court Below. He wanted to have it both ways, or
wanted to have his cake and eat it too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">You will observe that the authors of the
books of<b> "Chronicles" </b>and of<b> "Samuel"</b> are
telling us the same story about David taking a census of the Jews. Where did
David get his "inspiration" to do this novel deed? The author of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Samuel 24:1</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> says that it was the <b>"LORD"</b> God who MOVED (RSV:
"incited") David, but the author of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 Chronicles 21:1</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> says that it was "SATAN" who PROVOKED (RSV:
"incited") David to do such a dastardly thing! How could the Almighty
God have been the source of these contradictory<b> "INSPIRATIONS?"</b>
Is it God<b> or</b> is it Satan! In which religion is the DEVIL synonymous with
GOD? I am not talking about "Satanism" a recent fungus growth of
Christianity, in which ex-Christians worship the Devil. Christianity has been
most prolific of spawning isms. Atheism, Communism, Fascism, Totalitarianism,
Nazism, Mormonism, Moonism, Christian Scientism and now Satanism. What else
will Christianity give birth to? </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The "Holy Bible" lends itself to
all kinds of contradictory interpretations. This is the Christian boast!
"SOME CLAIM AND RIGHTLY SO, THAT BIBLICAL PASSAGES HAVE BEEN CONTINUOUSLY
MISUSED AND MISAPPROPRIATED TO JUSTIFY ALMOST EVERY EVIL KNOWN TO MAN"
(From:<b> "The Plain Truth"</b> an American-based Christian Journal
under the heading:<b> "THE BIBLE — World's Most Controversial Book."</b>
(July 1975). </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHO ARE THE REAL AUTHORS?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">As further evidence will be adduced from<b>
"Samuel"</b> and <b>"Chronicles"</b> I deem it advisable
first to determine their authors instead of suspecting God of those books'
incongruities. The Revisers of the RSV say: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(a) SAMUEL: Author<b> "Unknown"</b>
(Just one word) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(b) CHRONICLES: Author<b> "Unknown,</b>
probably collected and edited by Ezra." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We must admire the humility of these Bible
scholars, but their <b>"possiblys" "probablys"</b> and<b>
"likelys"</b> are always construed as ACTUALLY'S by their fleeced
sheep. Why make poor Ezra or Isaiah the scapegoats for these anonymous writers?
</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHAT DID THE LORD DECREE 3 YEARS FAMINE OR
7 YEARS FAMINE?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">13.</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him,
Shall <b><u>seven years of famine</u></b> come unto thee in thy land? Or wilt
thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue, thee? </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">11. </span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Choose thee<br />
<b>12.</b> Either <b><u>three years' famine</u></b>; or three months to be
destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh
thee; </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If God is the Author of every single word,
comma and full-stop in the Bible, as the Christians claim, then is He the
Author of the above arithmetical discrepancy as well?</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THREE OR SEVEN?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Note the reproduction of above. Compare
both the quotations. </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Samuel 24:13</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> tells us —<b> "So Gad came to David,
</b>AND TOLD HIM, and said unto him . . ." These words are repeated word
for word in </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 Chronicles 21:11</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">, except the redundant <b>"AND TOLD
HIM"</b> is removed! But while trimming the useless phrase, the author
also pruned the time factor from "SEVEN" years to "THREE"
years. What did God say to Gad<b> — Three</b> or<b> Seven</b> years plague —
"on both your houses?" </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">EIGHT OR EIGHTEEN? </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">See below. Compare the two quotations. </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Chronicles 36:9</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> tells us that JEHOIACHIN was<b> "eight"</b>
years old when he began to reign, while 2 Kings 24:8 says that he was<b>
"eighteen"</b> when he began to reign. The<b> "unknown"</b>
author of KINGS must have reasoned that what possible "evil" could a
child of eight do to deserve his abdication, so he generously added ten years
to make JEHOIACHIN mature enough to become liable to God's wrath. However, he
had to balance his tampering, so he cut short his reign by 10 days! Add<b> TEN</b>
years to age and deduct<b> TEN </b>days from rule? Could God Almighty say two
widely differing things on the same subject? </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">HOW OLD WAS JEHOIACHIN? 8 OR 18?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Between Eight and Eighteen years, there is
a gap or difference at a full 10 years. Can we say (God forbid!) that the
all-knowing Almighty could not count, and thus did not know the difference
between 8 and 18? If we are to believe in the Bible as the Word of God, then
the Dignity and Status of the Lord Almighty will hit an all-time low! </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">9. </span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">Jehoiachin was <b><u>eight years</u></b> old when he began
to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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24 </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">8.</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Jehoiachin was <b><u>eighteen years</u></b> old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem
three months. And his mothers name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">CAVALRY OR INFANTRY?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Compare the two quotations on page 40. How
many chariot riders did David slay? Seven<b> hundred</b> or seven<b> thousand?</b>
And further, did he slay 40000 "HORSEMEN" or 40000
"FOOTMEN?" The implication in the conflicting records between </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Samuel 10:18</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> and </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 Chronicles 19:18</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is not only that God could not discern
the difference between hundreds and thousands, but that He could not even
distinguish<b> "CAVALRY" </b>from<b> "INFANTRY!"</b> It is
obvious that blasphemy masquerades in the Christian dictionary as
"inspiration!"</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">700 or 7 000?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is certainly naught for Bible-lovers'
comfort that a whole nought (0) was either added to 700, or subtracted from 7
000, thus making the confused Biblical Mathematics even more confounded!</span><b><span style="color: magenta;">*</span></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">II
SAMUEL 10</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">18. </span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of
<b><u>seven hundred</u></b><u> </u>chariots of the Syrians, and forty
thousand <b><u>horsemen</u></b>, and smote Shobach the captain of their host,
who died there. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">18.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">But the Syrians fled before Israel: and
David slew of the Syrians <b><u>seven thousand</u></b><u> </u>men which
fought in chariots, and forty thousand <b><u>footmen</u></b>, and killed
Shophach the captain of the host.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">*</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">
The remarks on the Zero will be discussed soon. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">GOD CONFUSED BETWEEN "CAVALRY"
AND "INFANTRY" ?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">As for the "inspired writers" of
the Bible not knowing the difference between<b> "footmen" </b>and<b>
"horsemen,"</b> is all the more serious because God himself here
stands accused, as a source of that "inspiration" for not knowing the
difference between cavalry and infantry. Or is it possible that the Syrians who
fled before Israel
were centaurs (i.e. a race of creatures with the body and legs of a horse and
the torso, head and arms of a man), is it possible that these
"creatures" had suddenly stepped out of Classical Mythology to bemuse
the all too gullible authors.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">PRACTICAL HOMEWORK</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Solomon is his glory began building a
royal palace for himself which took him thirteen years. We learn this from the
1st Book of Kings, chapter 7. You remember Dr. Parker's boast (earlier on)
about<b> "whole pages being taken up by obscure names?"</b> Well, for
sheer puerility you cannot beat this chapter 7 and Ezekiel chapter 45. You owe
it to yourself to read it just once in your lifetime. After that, you will
really appreciate the Holy Qur'an!. Reproduced below, you will read the
passages for your <b>boring </b>pleasure. Obtain your own Bible and colour code
it for easy reference. You may colour the various references from this booklet
in your Bible:<b> "Yellow"</b> for all contradictions; use<b>
"Red"</b> for pornographic passages; and<b> "Green"</b> for
sensible, acceptable quotations as the ones I have mentioned at the beginning
of this essay — that is words that you can effortlessly recognize as being
those of God and His Holy Messengers. With just this preparation, you will be
ready to confute and confuse any missionary or Bible scholar that comes your
way! "IF WE PERSPIRE MORE IN TIMES OF PEACE, WE WILL BLEED LESS IN TIMES
OF WAR." (Chiang Kai-Shek) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">GOD, AS BUILDER, ENGINEER AND CRAFTSMAN </span><span style="color: black;">(IF YOU HAVE PATIENCE, READ<br />
THIS CHAPTER AND COMPLETE THE REST OF THE CHAPTER IN YOUR BIBLE)</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;">7</span></b><span style="color: black;"> But Solomon took "thirteen years to build his own
house; so he finished all his house. 2Chr 8:1 <b>2.</b> He also built the
"House of the Forest
of Lebanon; its length
was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits,
with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2 Chr 9:16 • About 150 feet</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
3.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> And it was paneled with cedar above
the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.<br />
<b>4</b>. <i>There</i> were windows with <i>beveled frames in</i> three rows,
and window was opposite window in three tiers.<br />
<b>5</b>. And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and
window was opposite window in three tiers.<br />
<b>6.</b> He also made the Hall of Pillars: its length was fifty cubits, and
its width thirty cubits; and in front of them was a portico with pillars, and
a canopy was in front of them.<br />
<b>7</b>. Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment. where he
might judge; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to<br />
ceiling. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lit. floor of the
upper level</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>8</b>. And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the hall, of
like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's
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<b><span style="color: black;">9.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> All these were of costly stones hewn to size, trimmed
with saws. inside and out. from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the
outside to the great court.<br />
<b>10.</b> The foundation was <i>of</i> costly stones, large stones, some ten
cubits and some eight cubits.<br />
<b>11.</b> And above <i>were</i> costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood.<br />
<b>12.</b> The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a
row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of the lord
"and the vestibule Of the temple. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1 Kin. 6:36
* John 10:23</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>13</b> Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.<br />
<b>14</b>. "He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and
"his father was a man of Tyre,
a bronze worker; he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in
working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all
his work.<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2 Chr. 2:14 • 2 Chr. 4:16</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
15.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> And he cast "two pillars of
bronze, each one eighteen
cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. <b><i><br />
</i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fashioned •</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jer
52:21</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
16</span></b><span style="color: black;">. Then he made two capitals of cast
bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five
cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">GOD, AS LAND SURVEYOR AND ARCHITECT</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(IF YOU HAVE PATIENCE, READ<br />
THIS CHAPTER AND COMPLETE THE REST OF THE CHAPTER IN YOUR BIBLE)</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">45</span></b><span style="color: black;"> "Moreover, when you "divide the land by lot
into inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the lord, a holy portion
of the land; its length <i>shall be</i> twenty-five thousand cubits, and the
width ten thousand. It <i>shall be</i> holy throughout its territory all
around. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek 47:22 -
Ezek 48:8,9<br />
</span><span style="color: black;">2</span></b><span style="color: black;">. <i>"</i>Of
this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, "five hundred by
five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek. 42.20</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>3. </b>"So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five
thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it shall be the sanctuary. The
Most Holy Place.<br />
<b>4 </b>"It shall be a holy portion of the land, belonging to the
priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the
lord; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the
sanctuary. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek.
48:10.11<br />
</span><span style="color: black;">5. </span></b><span style="color: black;">"An
area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to
the Levites, the ministers of the temple; they shall have twenty chambers as
a possession.<br />
<b>6.</b> "You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five
thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district
of the holy portion; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek. 48:25 </span></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">7.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> ""The prince shall have <i>a portion</i> on
one side and the other of the holy district and the city's property; and
bordering on the holy district and the city's property, extending westward on
the west side and eastward on the east side, the length <i>shall be</i> side
by side with one of the tribal Portions, from the west border to the east
border. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek. 48:21<br />
</span><span style="color: black;">8</span></b><span style="color: black;">.
"The land shall be his possession in Israel; and "My princes
shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to
the house of Israel,
according to their tribes."<br />
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek 22:27</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>9</b>. Thus says the Lord god: "Enough, O princes of Israel!
Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop
dispossessing My people." says the Lord god.<br />
<b>10</b>. "You shall have just "balances, a just ephah, and a just
bath.<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lev. 19:36</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>11</b>. "The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that
the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer;
their measure shall be according to the homer.<br />
<b>12</b>. "The shekel <i>shall be</i> twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ex. 30:13</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>13</b>. "This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give
one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a
homer of barley.. ""The prince shall have <i>a portion</i> on one
side and the other of the holy district and the city's property; and
bordering on the holy district and the city's property, extending westward on
the west side and eastward on the east side, the length <i>shall be</i> side
by side with one of the tribal Portions, from the west border to the east
border. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek. 48:21<br />
</span><span style="color: black;">8</span></b><span style="color: black;">.
"The land shall be his possession in Israel; and "My princes
shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to
the house of Israel,
according to their tribes."<br />
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezek 22:27</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>9</b>. Thus says the Lord god: "Enough, O princes of Israel!
Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop
dispossessing My people." says the Lord god.<br />
<b>10</b>. "You shall have just "balances, a just ephah, and a just
bath.<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lev. 19:36</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>11</b>. "The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that
the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer;
their measure shall be according to the homer.<br />
<b>12</b>. "The shekel <i>shall be</i> twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina. </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ex. 30:13</span></b><span style="color: black;"><br />
<b>13</b>. "This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give
one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a
homer of barley.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">HOW HYGIENIC? </span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, look below and note that the author
of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 Kings 7:26</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> has counted 2 000 baths in Solomon's
palace, but the author of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Chronicles
4:5</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> increases the
kingly count by 50% to 3 000! What extravagance and error in the "Book of
God?" Even if God Almighty had nothing else to do, would He occupy Himself
"inspiring" such trivial contradictory nonsense to the Jews? Is the
Bible God's Book? Is it the Word of God? </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE DIFFERENCE 2 000 and 3 000 IS ONLY 50%
EXAGGERATION!</span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">26.</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;"> And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof
was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained <b><u>two
thousand</u></b> baths.. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">5.</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;"> And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it
like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received
and held <b><u>three thousand</u></b> baths.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Whether it is witting or unwitting, the
"inspired" writer's singular inability to grasp the difference
between 2 000 and 3 000 is unforgivable. It is an obvious contradiction.
"AND NO MIRACLE WOULD PROVE THAT TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE, OR THAT A CIRCLE
HAS FOUR ANGELS; AND NO MIRACLES, HOWEVER NUMEROUS COULD REMOVE A CONTRADICTION
WHICH LIES ON THE SURFACE OF THE TEACHINGS AND RECORDS OF CHRISTIANITY." —
(Albert Schweizer), from his book:<b> "In Search of the Historical
Jesus."</b> Page 22. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">PILED CONTRADICTIONS</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Before I conclude this series of
contradictions, let me give you just one more example. There are hundreds of
others in the Bible. See below. It is Solomon again. He really does things in a
big way. The ex-Shah of Iran
was a nursery kid by comparison! The author of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">2 Chronicles 9:25</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> gives Solomon one thousand more stalls of
horses than the number of baths he had given him. <b>"And Solomon had FOUR
thousand</b> stalls for horses ..." But the author of </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">1 Kings 4:26</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> had real kingly thoughts about his royal
patron. He multiplied Solomon's stalls by 1 000% — from 4 000 to 40000 stalls
of horses! Before some glib evangelist draws the wool over your eyes that the
difference is only a nought, a zero — "0"; that some scribe or
copyist had inadvertently added a zero to 4 000 to make it 40 000, let me tell
you that the Jews in the time of Solomon knew nothing about the zero —
"O"! It was the Arabs who introduced the zero to the Middle East and to Europe
centuries later. The Jews spelt out their figures in words in their literary
works and did not write them in numerals. Our Question is — Who was the real
author of this staggering discrepency of 36000? Was it God or man? You will
find these references and many more allied facts in a very comprehensive book —<b>
"THE BIBLE — Word of God or Word of Man?"</b> by A. S. K. Joommal.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">25.</span></b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;"> And Solomon had <b><u>four thousand</u></b> stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the
chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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<b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">26</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: teal; font-size: 13.5pt;">And Solomon had <b><u>forty thousand</u></b>
stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Difference between 4 thousand<br />
and 40 thousand is only 36 OOO!<br />
The Jews did not use The "0" (Zero)</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER
EIGHT</span><span style="color: black;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">MOST
OBJECTIVE TESTIMONY</span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Christian propagandist is very fond of
quoting the following verse as proof that his Bible is the Word of God. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"All scripture <u>IS</u> given by
inspiration of God, and <u>IS</u> profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness."</span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: black;">(2
Timothy 3:16 — AV by
Scofield)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Note the "IS’s" in capitals.
Rev. Scofield is telling us silently that they do not occur in the original
Greek.<b> "THE</b> NEW <b>ENGLISH BIBLE,"</b> translated by a
committee representing the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, the
Methodist Church, the Congregational Church, the Baptist Union, the
Presbyterian Church of England, etc., etc.,<b> and</b> the BRITISH AND FOREIGN
BIBLE SOCIETY has produced the closest translation of the original Greek which
deserves to be reproduced here: </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"EVERY INSPIRED SCRIPTURE HAS ITS USE
FOR TEACHING THE TRUTH AND REFUTING ERROR, OR FOR REFORMATION OF MANNERS AND
DISCIPLINE IN RIGHT LIVING."</span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: black;">(2 Timothy 3:16) </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Roman Catholics in their "Douay" Version, are also more faithful to the text
than the Protestants in their Authorised Version (AV). They say: "ALL
SCRIPTURE, INSPIRED OF GOD, IS PROFITABLE TO TEACH, TO REPROVE, TO CORRECT . .
." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We will not quibble with words. Muslims
and Christians are agreed that whatever emanates from God, whether through in
inspiration or by revelation, must serve one of four purposes:- </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. It must either teach us<b> DOCTRINE;</b>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2.<b> REPROVE</b> us for our error; </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. Offer us<b> CORRECTION;</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Guide us into<b> RIGHTEOUSNESS.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been asking learned men of
Christianity for the past forty years, whether they can supply a<b> FIFTH</b>
"peg" to hang the Word of God on. They have failed signally. That
does not mean that I have improved upon their performance. Let us examine the<b>
"Holy Bible"</b> with these objective tests. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">NOT FAR TO SEEK </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The very first book of the Bible —<b>
Genesis</b> — provides us with many beautiful examples. Open chapter 38 and
read. We are given here the history</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of Judah, the father of the Jewish race,
from whom we derive the names<b> "judea"</b> and<b>
"Judaism."</b> This patriarch of the Jews got married and God granted
him three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. When the first-born was big enough, Judah had him
married to a lady called Tamar. "BUT ER, JUDAH'S FIRST-BORN<b> WAS WICKED</b>
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; AND THE<b> LORD SLEW HIM.''</b> </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Genesis 38:7)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Under what heading, from the above four principles of Timothy
will you place this sad news? The<b> second</b> — "REPROVE" is the
answer. Er was wicked so God killed him. A lesson for all, God will destroy us
for our wickedness.<b> REPROOF!</b> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Continuing with this Jewish history,
according to their custom, if a brother died and left no offspring, it was the
duty of the other brother to give "seed" to his sisters-in-law so
that the deceased's name might be perpetuated. Judah, in honour of this custom,
orders his second son Onan to do his duty. But Jealousy enters his heart. It
will be<b> his seed</b> but the name will be his brother's! So at the critical
moment "HE<b> SPILLED IT</b> ON THE GROUND . . . AND THE THING HE<b> DID
DISPLEASED THE LORD:</b> WHEREFORE HE<b> SLEW HIM ALSO."</b> </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Genesis 38:9-10)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Again, where does this slaying fit into Timothy's tests?
"REPROOF!" is the answer again. No prizes are offered for these easy
answers. They are so basic. Do wrong and bear the consequence! Onan is
forgotten in the "Book of God," but Christian sexologists have
immortalized him by referring to "coitus interruptus," as Onanism</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> in their "Books of Sex." </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now Judah tells his daughter-in-law,
Tamar, to return to her father's house until his third son Shelah attains
manhood, when she will be brought back so that he can do his duty.<br />
<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> You remember Dr. Kenneth Cragg in his<b>
"Call of the Minaret"</b> and his <b>"HISTORY."</b> See
full quotation on page one. <b>This is that "history." </b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2. </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">"ONANISM:" </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now immortalized in the Oxford Dictionary.</span><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">A WOMAN'S REVENGE </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Shelah grows up and is, perhaps, married
to another woman. But Judah
had not fulfilled his obligation to Tamar. Deep in his <b>heart</b> he is
terrified. He has already lost two sons on account of this "witch," —
"LEST PERADVENTURE HE (Shelah) DIE ALSO, AS HIS BRETHERN DID." </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Genesis 38:11)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. So Judah
conveniently forgets his promise. The aggrieved young lady resolves to take
revenge on her father-in-law for depriving her of her "seed" right.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Tamar
learned that Judah
is going to Timnath to sheer his sheep. She plans to get even with him on the
way. She forestalls him, and goes and sits in an open place en route to
Timnath. When Judah
sees her, he thinks she is a harlot because she has covered her face. He comes
up to her and proposes — "ALLOW ME TO COME IN UNTO THEE; AND SHE SAID WHAT
WILT THOU GIVE ME, THAT THOU MAYEST COME IN UNTO ME?" He promises that he
would send her a goat kid from his flock. What guarantee could she have that he
would send it? What guarantee did she require, Judah queried. "His ring, his
bracelet and his staff" is the ready answer. The old man hands these
possessions to her, and "CAME IN UNTO HER, AND SHE CONCEIVED BY HIM."
</span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Genesis 38:16-18)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE MORAL LESSON</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Before we seek the heading from </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">Timothy 3:16</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">, under which to categorize this filthy, dirty story from the
"Book of God," I am tempted to ask, as you would be tempted to ask:
what is the moral (?) lesson that our children will learn from Tamar's sweet
revenge? Of course we do tell our children, fables, not really for their
entertainment value, but that through them some moral may be imparted."The
Fox and the Grapes,'' "The Wolf and the Lamb,'' "The Dog and his
Shadow," etc. However simple or silly the story, a<b> moral</b> is aimed
at. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">'CHRISTIAN PARENTAL DILEMMAS'</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. Vernon Jones, an American psychologist
of repute, carried out experiments on groups of schoolchildren to whom certain
stories had been told. The heroes of the stories were the same in the case of
the different groups of children, but the heroes behaved contradictorily to
each group. To one group "St. George," slaving the dragon emerged a
very brave figure, but to another group, fleeing in terror and seeking shelter
in his mother's lap. "THESE STORIES MADE CERTAIN SLIGHT BUT PERMANENT
CHANGES IN CHARACTER, EVEN IN THE NARROW CLASSROOM SITUATION,'' concluded Dr.
Jones. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">How much more permanent damage the rapes
and murders, incests and beastialities of the "Holy Bible" has done
to the children of Christendom, can be measured from reports in our daily
newspapers. If such is the source of Western morality, it is no little wonder,
then, that Methodists and Roman Catholics have already solemnized marriages
between HOMOSEXUALS in their "Houses of God." And 8000
"gays" (an euphemistic term for sodomites) parade their
"wares" in London's
Hyde Park in July 1979, to the acclaim of the
news and TV media.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> </span><span style="color: red;">1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">You must get that "Holy Bible"
and read the whole chapter 38 of Genesis. Mark in<b> "red"</b> the
words and phrases deserving this adornment. We had reached verse 18 in our
moral (?) lesson — "AND SHE CONCEIVED BY HIM." </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Ever since then, the major cities of the Western World; be it
London, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Paris etc hold annual gay parades
(Mardi Gras), with now, public turnouts bringing in children as spectators. Australia,
prides itself in having Sydney
being declared the gay capital of the world. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">CAN'T HIDE FOR EVER </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three months later, as things were bound
to turn out, news reached Judah
that his daughter-in-law, Tamar, had played the "harlot" and that she
was with "CHILD BY WHOREDOM AND JUDAH SAID, BRING HER FORTH, AND LET HER
BE BURNT." </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Genesis 38:24)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Judah had deliberately spurned her
as a "witch" and now he sadistically wants to burn her. But this
wiley Jewess was one up on the old man. She sent the "ring," the
"bracelet," and the "staff'' with a servant, beseeching her
father-in-law to find the culprit responsible for her pregnancy. Judah was in a
fix. He confessed that his daughter-in-law was more "RIGHTEOUS" than
himself, and "HE KNEW HER AGAIN NO MORE." (verse 26). It is quite an
experience to compare the choice of language in which the different Versions
describe the same incident. The Jehovah's Witnesses in their <b>"New World Translation"</b> translate the last
quotation as — "HE HAD NO FURTHER INTERCOURSE WITH HER AFTER THAT."</span><b><sup><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> This is not the last we will hear about
in the "Book of God" of this Tamar whom the Gospel writers have
immortalized in their "Genealogy of their Lord." </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> The Jehovah's Witness Version is more explicit in its
choice of words. It does not hesitate to call a spade a spade! Compare Ezekiel
23 with any other Version, and see the difference.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">INCEST HONOURED</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">I do not want to bore you with details,
but the end verses of Genesis 38 deal with a duel in Tamar's womb: about the
twins struggling for ascendancy. The Jews were very meticulous about recording
their "first borns." The first born got the lion's share of their
father's patrimony. Who are the lucky winners in this prenatal race? There are
four in this unique contest. They are <b>"PHAREZ</b> and<b> ZARAH</b> of<b>
TAMAR</b> by<b> JUDAH.''</b>
How? You will see presently. But first, let us have the moral. What is the
moral in this episode? You remember Er and Onan: how God destroyed them for
their several sins? And the lessons we have learnt in each case was<b>
"REPROOF''</b> Under what category of Timothy will you place the incest of
Judah, and his illegitimate progeny? All these characters are honoured in the
"Book of God" for their bastardy. They become the great grandfathers
and great grandmothers of the<b> "only begotten son of God'(?)</b> See </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">Matthew 1:3</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. In every Version of the Bible, the Christians have varied the
spelling of these characters' names from those obtained in the Old Testament
(Genesis chapter 38) with those contained in the New Testament (Matthew chapter
1) to put the reader off the scent. From PHAREZ in the "Old" to PARES
in the "New,'' and ZARAH to ZARA and TAMAR to THAMAR, But what about the
moral? God blesses Judah
for his incestuous crime! So if you do "evil" (Er), God will slay
you; if you spill "seed" (Onan), God will kill you, but a
daughter-in-law (Lamat) who vengefully and guilefully collect her
father-in-law's (Judah's) "seed" is rewarded. Under what category
will the Christians place this "honour" in the "Book of
God?" Where does it fit? Is it Your ... </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. DOCTRINE?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. REPROOF?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. CORRECTION? or</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. INSTRUCTION INTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ask him who comes and knocks at your door
— that professional preacher, that hot-gospeller, that Bible-thumper. Here, he
deserves a prize if he can grant an explanation for the correct answer. There
is none born who can justify this filth, this pornography under any of the
above headings. But a heading has to be given. It can only be recorded under —
"PORNOGRAPHY!" </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">BAN THE BOOK! </span></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">George Bernard Shaw said that "THE
MOST DANGEROUS BOOK (the Bible) ON EARTH, KEEP IT UNDER LOCK AND KEY."
Keep the Bible out of your children's reach. But who will follow his advice? He
was not a "B.A.,</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> a "reborn" Christian. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">According to the high moral scruples of
the Christian rulers of South African, who have banned the book,<b> "Lady
Chatterley's Lover,''</b> because of a "tetragrammaton" — a
four-letter word, they would most assuredly have placed a ban on the "Holy
Bible" if it had been a Hindu religious Book, or a Muslim religious Book.
But they are utterly helpless against their own "Holy Book," their
"SALVATION" depends upon it! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Reading Bible
stories to children<br />
can also open up all sorts of<br />
opportunities to discuss the<br />
morality of sex. An unexpurgated<br />
Bible might get an X-rating <u>from<br />
some censors,</u> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The PLAIN TRUTH October 1977</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> "B.A." short for<b> "born again"</b>
it is a new sickness. It destroyed the "SUICIDE CULT" of Rev. Jim
Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">DAUGHTERS SEDUCE THEIR FATHER</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Read Genesis 19, verses 30 to the end and
mark again in<b> "red" </b>the words and phrases deserving this
honour. Do not hesitate and procrastinate. Your "coloured" Bible will
become a priceless heirloom for your children. I agree with Shaw, to keep the
Bible "under lock and key,'' but we need this weapon to meet the Christian
challenge. The Prophet of Islam said that "WAR IS STRATEGY,'' and strategy
demands that we use the weapons of our enemy. It is not what we like and what
we do not like. It is what we are forced to use against the "ONE
BOOK" (Bible) professors, who are knocking at our doors with<b> "the
Bible says this"</b> and<b> "the Bible says that."</b> They want
us to exchange our Holy Qur'an for their "Holy Bible." Show them the
holes in the "holiness" which they have not yet seen. At times these
zombies pretend to see the filth for the first time. They have been programmed
with selected verses for their propagation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">To continue: the "history" has
it that, night after night, the daughters of Lot
seduce their drunken father with the noble (?) motive of preserving their
father's<b> "seed."</b> "Seed" figures very prominently in
this "Holy Book": forty seven times in the little booklet of Genesis
alone! Out of this another incestuous relationship come the<b>
"Ammonites"</b> and the<b> "Moabites,"</b> for whom the God
of Israel was supposed to have had a special compassion. Later on in the Bible
we learn that the Jews are ordered by the same compassionate God to slaughter
the Philistines mercilessly — men, women and children. Even trees and animals
are not to be spared, but the Amonites and the Moabites are not to be<b>
"distressed"</b> or<b> "meddled"</b> with because they are
the seed of Lot! </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Deuteronomy 2:19)</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">No decent reader can read the seduction of
Lot to his mother, sister or daughter, not
even to his fiancee if she is a chaste and moral woman. Yet you will come
across perverted people who will gorge this filth. Tastes can be cultivated! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Read again and mark Ezekiel 23. You will
know what colour<b> to </b>choose. The "whoredoms" of the two
sisters, Aholah and Aholibah. The sexual details here puts to shame even the
unexpurgated edition of many banned books. Ask your "born again"
Christian visitors, under what category will they classify all this lewdness?
Such filth certainly has no place in any "Book of God." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Al-Haj A.D. Ajijola in his book —<b>
"The Myth of the Cross" </b>gives a masterly expose of the fallacy of
the Bible as well as of the crucifixion, in short, of the whole of
Christianity. No student of comparative religion can afford to be without this
publication and<b> "THE BIBLE: Word of God or Word of Man?"</b>
mentioned earlier on. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 24.0pt;">CHAPTER
NINE</span></u><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: olive; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Watch now how the Christian fathers have foisted
the incestuous progenies of the Old Testament upon their Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ, in the New Testament. For a man who had no genealogy, they have
manufactured one for him. And what a genealogy! Six adulterers and offsprings
of incest are imposed upon this holy man of God. Men and women deserving to be
stoned to death according to God's own law, as revealed through Moses, and
further to be ostracised and debarred from the House of God for generations.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> "The<b> bastard</b> shall not enter the congregation
of the Lord even unto the tenth generation." (Deut. 23:2 — AV). The
"Witnesses" have been hyper sensitive to this word. Swallowing the
camel and straining at the gnat!</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">IGNOBLE ANCESTRY</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Why should God give a "father"
(Joseph) to His "son" (Jesus)? And why such an ignoble ancestry?<b>
"This is the whole beauty of it"</b> says the pervert.<b> "God
loved the sinners so much that he disdaineth not to give such progenitors for
His 'son. "</b> </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">ONLY TWO COMMISSIONED</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Of the four Gospel writers, God
"inspired" only two of them to record the genealogy of His
"son." To make it easy for you to compare the "fathers and
grandfathers" of Jesus Christ in both the "inspired" lists, I
have culled the names only, minus the verbiage. See below. Between David and
Jesus, God "inspired" Matthew to record only 26 ancestors for His
"son." But Luke, also "inspired," gathered up 41
forefathers for Jesus. The only name common to these two lists between David
and Jesus is <b>JOSEPH</b> and that, too, a "supposed" father
according to Luke 3:23
(AV). This one name is glaring. You need no fine-tooth comb to catch him. It is
Joseph the carpenter. You will also easily observe that the lists are grossly
contradictory. Could both the lists have emanated from the same source, i.e.
God? </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 18.0pt;">GENEALOGY
FROM DAVID TO JESUS</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">FULFILLING PROPHECY?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Matthew and Luke are over-zealous in
making<b> DAVID</b> the King, the prime ancestor of Jesus, because of that
false notion that Jesus was to sit on the "THRONE OF HIS FATHER
DAVID" </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Acts 2:30)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">. The Gospels belie this prophecy, for they tell us that
instead of Jesus sitting on his father's (David's) throne, it was Pontious
Pilate, a Roman Governor, a pagan who sat on that very throne and condemned its
rightful (?) heir (Jesus) to death. "Never mind,'' says the evangelist,<b>
"if not in his first coming, then in his second coming he will fulfill
this prophecy and three hundred others beside"</b> But with their
extravagant enthusiasm to trace the ancestry of Jesus<b> physically</b> to
David, (for this is actually what the Bible says —<b> THAT OF THE FRUIT OF HIS </b>(David's)<b>
LOINS, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH"</b> (literally, not metaphorically </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">Acts 2:30</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">), both the "inspired" authors trip and fall on the very
first step. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Matthew 1:6 says that Jesus was the son of<b>
David</b> through SOLOMON, but Luke 3:31 says that he (Jesus) was the son of <b>David</b>
through NATHAN. One need not be a gynaecologist to tell that by no stretch of
the imagination could the seed of David reach the mother of Jesus both through
Solomon and Nathan at the same time! We know that both the authors are
confounded liars, because Jesus was conceived miraculously, without any male
intervention. Even if we concede a physical ancestry through David, both
authors would still be proved liars for the obvious reason. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">BREAKING PREJUDICE</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">As simple as the above logic is, the
Christian is so emotionally involved that it will not penetrate his prejudiced
mind. Let us give him an identical example, but one where he can afford to be
objective. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We know from history that Muhammed the
Prophet of Islam, was the son of Abraham through ISHMAEL, so if some
"inspired" writer came along and tried to palm off his
"revelation" to the effect that Muhummed was the son of Abraham
through ISAAC, we would, without any hesitation, brand such a writer as a liar,
because the seed of Abraham could never reach Amina (Muhummed's mother) through
Ishmael and through Isaac at the same time! The differences of lineage between
these two sons of Abraham is the difference between the JEWS and the ARABS. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the case of Muhummed, we would know
then that anyone who says that Isaac is his progenitor, was a liar. But in the
case of Jesus both Matthew and Luke are suspect. Until the Christians decide
which line of ancestors they prefer for their "god," both Gospels
will have to be rejected. Christendom has been battling</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">tooth
and nail with these genealogies for the past 2000 years, trying to unravel the
mystery. They have not given up yet. We admire their perseverance. They still
believe that<b> "TIME WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM." </b>Perhaps another
2000 years?! </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"THERE ARE CLAIMED CONTRADICTIONS
THAT THEOLOGIANS HAVE NOT RESOLVED TO EVERY ATHEIST'S SATISFACTION. THERE ARE
TEXTUAL DIFFICULTIES WITH WHICH SCHOLARS ARE<b> STILL WRESTLING.</b> ONLY A
BIBLE ILLITERATE WOULD DENY THESE AND OTHER PROBLEMS" <b>"The Plain
Truth," </b>July 1975. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE SOURCE OF LUKE'S
"INSPIRATION"</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We have already nailed 85% of Matthew and
Luke to Mark or that<b> "mysterious 'Q''’.</b></span><b><span style="color: black;"> </span><sup><span style="color: magenta;">1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Let us now allow Luke to tell us who
"inspired" him to tell his<b> "most excellent Theophilus"</b>
</span><b><i><span style="color: black;">(Luke 1:3)</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> the story of Jesus. See below for Luke's
preamble to his "Gospel." He tells us plainly that he was only
following in the footsteps of others who were less qualified than himself,
others who had the temerity to write accounts of his hero (Jesus). As a
physician, as against fishermen and tax collectors, he was no doubt better
equipped to create a literary masterpiece. This he did, because<b> "IT
SEEMED GOOD TO ME ALSO"</b> to<b> "PUT IN ORDER."</b> These are his
prominent Justifications over his predecessors. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 24.0pt;">F</span></u></b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ORASMUCH as many have taken in hand</span></u><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> to<br />
set forth in order a declaration of those things<br />
which are most surely believed among us,<br />
<b>2.</b> Even as they delivered them unto us, which<br />
from the beginning were eyewitnesses and<br />
ministers of the word;<br />
<b>3.</b> <u>It seemed good to me also</u>, having had<br />
perfect understanding of all things from the very<br />
first, <u>to write unto thee in order</u>, most excellent<br />
Theophilus,<br />
<b>4.</b> <u>That thou mightest know</u> the certainty of those<br />
things, wherein thou has been instructed. to<br />
set forth in order a declaration of those things<br />
which are most surely believed among us,<br />
<b>2.</b> Even as they delivered them unto us, which<br />
from the beginning were eyewitnesses and<br />
ministers of the word;<br />
<b>3.</b> <u>It seemed good to me also</u>, having had<br />
perfect understanding of all things from the very<br />
first, <u>to write unto thee in order</u>, most excellent<br />
Theophilus,<br />
<b>4.</b> <u>That thou mightest know</u> the certainty of those<br />
things, wherein thou has been instructed. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black;">Luke 1:1-4</span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the introduction to his translation of
the<b> "Gospel of St Luke"</b> A Christian scholar, J. B. Phillips,
has this to say — "ON HIS OWN ADMISSION LUKE HAS CAREFULLY COMPARED AND
EDITED EXISTING MATERIAL, BUT IT WOULD SEEM THAT HE HAD ACCESS TO A GOOD DEAL
OF ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, AND WE CAN REASONABLY GUESS AT SOME OF THE SOURCES FROM
WHICH HE DREW." And yet you call this the Word of God?! Obtain<b>
"The Gospels in Modern English"</b> in soft cover by 'FONTANA' publications. It
is a cheap edition. Get it quickly before the Christians decide to have
Phillips' invaluable notes expunged from his translation! And do not be
surprised if the authors of the RSV also decide to eliminate the
"Preface"</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> from their translation. It is an old, old
habit. As soon as those who have vested interests in Christianity realize that
they have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag, they quickly make amends.
They make my current references "past" history overnight! </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Refer to Chapter Six. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Refer to Chapter Three.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE REMAINING GOSPEL </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is the author of<b> "The Gospel
of St. John?"</b>
Neither God nor St. John!
See what "he" (?) says about it "himself" (?) on page 58 —
John 19:35 and 21:24-25. Who is his "HE"
and "HIS" and<b> "THIS?"</b> A-N-D, his<b> "WE</b>
KNOW" and "I SUPPOSE." Could it be the fickle one who left him
in the lurch in the garden, when he was most in need, or the fourteenth man at
the table, at the "last Super," the one that "Jesus loved?"
Both were Johns. It was a popular name among the Jews in the times of Jesus,
and among Christians even now. Neither of these two was the author of this
Gospel. That it was the product of an anonymous hand, is crystal clear. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;">WATCH THE PRONOUNS!</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ST.
JOHN</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">
19</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">35. And <u>he</u> that saw it bare record,<br />
and <u>his</u> record is true: and <u>he</u> knoweth<br />
that <u>he</u> saith true, that ye might believe.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: grey; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHO IS "HE" AND
"HIS"? </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; font-size: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr7f-OTwl7Uo157WuX5_UInbZU9qvm7zIp80alVl7Eb111R3PGKgvNC_zXmtdH0_lIpby0Khj4JqfP8MQv1mzxBShuPnC6EYYRnYNRxKdc246iE37V4VQ8jpUXnfaG5uhyphenhyphenJP71tESr_fw/s400/P017B110.JPG" width="400" /></span>ST.
JOHN</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">
21</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">24. This is the disciple which testifieth<br />
of these things, and wrote these things:<br />
and we know that his testimony is true. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: grey; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHO IS "WE"?</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Conclusion</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">25. And there are also many other things<br />
which Jesus did, the which, <u>if they should<br />
be written every one</u>, I suppose that <u>even<br />
the world itself could not contain the books<br />
that should be written</u>. Amen. </span><b><span style="color: grey; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHAT AN EXAGGERATION!</span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: grey; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHO IS "I"?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHORS IN A NUTSHELL </span></u></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; font-size: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">race long ago. In the RSV by "Collins," invaluable notes
on<b> "The Books of the Bible"</b> are to be found at the back of
their production. I am reproducing only a bit of that information on below. We
start with<b> "GENESIS"</b> — the first book of the Bible. The
scholars say about its "AUTHOR":<b> "One of the 'five books of
Moses'."</b> Note the words<b> "five books of Moses"</b> are
written in inverted commas — " " This is a subtle way of admitting
that this is what people say — that it is the book of Moses, that Moses was its
author, but we (the 32 scholars) who are better informed, do not subscribe to
that tittle-tattel. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Let me conclude this
"authorship" search with the verdict of those 32 scholars, backed by
their 50 co-operating denominations. God had been eliminated from this
authorship </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The next four books,<b> "EXODUS,
LEVITICUS, NUMBERS</b> and <b>DEUTERONOMY":</b> AUTHOR?<b> "Generally
credited to Moses."</b><br />
This is the same category as the book of<b> Genesis.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is the author of the book of<b>
"JUDGES?"</b> Answer: <b>"Possibly Samuel."</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is the author of the book of<b>
"JOSHUA?"</b> Answer:<b> "Major part credited to Joshua."</b>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is the author of<b> "RUTH?"</b>
Answer:<b> "Not definitely known"</b> AND </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who is the author of: </span></div>
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<a href="http://facebook.com/dbht1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1ST SAMUEL?............ Answer: Author <b>"Unknown"
</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2ND SAMUEL........... Answer: Author <b>"Unknown"</b>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1ST KING?................. Answer: Author <b>"Unknown"</b>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2ND KING?............... Answer: Author <b>"Unknown"
</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1<sup>st</sup> CHRONICLES? …. Answer:
Author "<b>Unknown, probably</b> …"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2<sup>st</sup> CHRONICLES? …. Answer:
Author "<b>Likely collected</b> …"</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt;">THE BOOKS
OF THE BIBLE</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">GENESIS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR One of the<b> "five<br />
books of Moses."</b> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">EXODUS </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR<b> Generally<br />
</b>credited to Moses. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">LEVITICUS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR <b>Generally</b><br />
credited to Moses. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">NUMBERS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR<b> Generally</b><br />
credited to Moses. <br />
<b><br />
DEUTERONOMY </b><br />
AUTHOR<b> Generally</b><br />
credited to Moses. <br />
<b><br />
JOSHUA </b><br />
AUTHOR.<b> Major part</b><br />
credited to Joshua. <br />
<b><br />
JUDGES<br />
</b>AUTHOR.<b> Possibly</b> Samuel, </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">RUTH<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR. Not definitely
known,<b> perhaps</b> Samuel. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">FIRST SAMUEL</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR.<b> Unknown.</b> <br />
<b><br />
SECOND SAMUEL<br />
</b>AUTHOR. <b>Unknown. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">FIRST KINGS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR. <b>Unknown.</b><br />
<b><br />
SECOND KINGS<br />
</b>AUTHOR.<b> Unknown.</b> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">FIRST
CHRONICLES<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR.<b> Unknown,</b><br />
probably collected and<br />
edited by Ezra. <br />
<b><br />
SECOND CHRONICLES </b><br />
AUTHOR.<b> Likely</b> collected<br />
and edited by Ezra. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">EZRA<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR.<b> Probably</b>
written<br />
or edited by Ezra. <br />
<b><br />
ESTHER </b><br />
AUTHOR. <b>Unknown.</b> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">JOB<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR.<b> Unknown.</b>
</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">PSALMS<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR. Principally
David,<br />
though there are<b> other writers.</b> <br />
<b><br />
ECCLESIASTES </b><br />
AUTHOR. Doubtful, but<br />
<b>commonly</b> assigned to Solomon. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ISAIAH<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">AUTHOR. Mainly credited<br />
to Isaiah. Parts<b> may</b> have been<br />
written<b> by others.</b> <br />
<b><br />
JONAH </b><br />
AUTHOR.<b> Unknown.</b> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">HABAKKUK</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
AUTHOR. Nothing<b> known of</b><br />
the place or time of his birth. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The above
facts are from Collins' R.S.V. 1971. Pages 12-17. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">And so the story goes. The authors of
these anonymous books are either <b>"UNKNOWN"</b> or are<b>
"PROBABLY"</b> or<b> "LIKELY"</b> or are of<b>
"DOUBTFUL"</b> origin. Why blame God for this fiasco? The Long-suffering
and Merciful God did not wait for two thousand years for Bible scholars to tell
us that He was not the Author of Jewish peccadilloes, prides and prejudices; of
their lusts, wranglings, jealousies and enormities. He said it openly what they
do:- </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We could have started the thesis of this
book with the above Qur'anic verse and ended with it, with the satisfaction
that God Almighty had Himself delivered His verdict on the subject —<b>
"Is the Bible God's Word?",</b> but we wished to afford our Christian
brethern an opportunity to study the subject as objectively as they wished.</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Allowing believing Christians, "reborn" Christians, and
their own Holy Book the Bible to testify against their "better"
judgement. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">What about the Holy Qur'an? Is the Qur'an
the Word of God? The author of this humble publication has endeavoured to
answer this question in a most scientific manner in his book <b>"AL'QUR'AN
— The Miracle of Miracles"</b> available absolutely free of charge from
the "Centre" on request. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> "THE BIBLE" - "The World's Best
Seller!"</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">the Publishers of the RSV made a net
profit of 15 000 000 dollars on the first edition alone'<b> "What a
miserable price in exchange for eternity!" </b></span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> See Dr</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Scroggie's plea in chapter 5. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">EPILOGUE
</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The reader must by now be convinced, that
is if he has an open mind, that the Bible is not what it is claimed to be by
the protagonists of Christianity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">For nearly four decades people have asked
me as to how I have such an "in depth" knowledge of the Bible and
Christianity. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Frankly speaking my present position as a
Muslim "expert" on Judaism and Christianity is not of my own
volition. I have been forced into being what I am. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">EARLY PROVOCATION</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was in 1939 when I was working as a
shop assistant at Adams Mission near a Christian seminary by that name;
producing preachers and priests, that I and my fellow Muslim workers were the
target of young aspiring men of the cloth. Not a day passed when these young
Christians did not harass me or my brothers-in-faith, through insults which
they piled on Islam, the Holy Prophet and the Qur'an. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Being a sensitive young man of 20, I spent
sleepless nights in tears for not being able to defend the one dearer to me
than my own life,<b> that mercy unto all mankind—</b> Muhummed P.B.U.H. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">I resolved to study the Qur'an, the Bible
and other literature. My discovery of the book —<b> "IZHARUL HAQ"</b>
was the turning point in my life. After a short while I was able to invite the
trainee missionaries of Adams
Mission College
and cause them to perspire under the collar until they developed a respect for
Islam and its Holy Apostle. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">MUSLIMS UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">It made me ponder as to how so many unwary
Muslims are being constantly assaulted by Christian evangelists who carry out a
door to door campaign, and being invited in by the proverbially hospitable
Muslim, I thought of how the merciless missionary munched the<b> samoosas</b>
and punched the wind out of the Muslim with snide remarks against his beliefs. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Determined to bring home to the Muslims
their right to defend themselves and to arm them with enough knowledge to
counter the hot gospeller, the door to door pedlar of Christianity and the
shameless insulter of Islam and its Holy Apostle; I humbly undertook to deliver
lectures to show the Muslim masses that they had nothing to fear from the
assaults of the Christians. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">My lectures were also an invitation to the
Christians to witness the truth of Islam and the fabrications which had
penetrated the true teachings of Jesus (P.B.U.H). </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">ATTACK NOT NEW</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Christian Missionaries in the past hundred
years and more have challenged Muslims on many aspects and quite a number of
these challenges have, to my knowledge, gone answered or have been partly
answered. Perhaps by the will of Allah my contribution in this field can also
be answers or part answers to the challenges of the detractors of Islam. It is
of supreme importance that we do not go by default. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">One such challenge comes to mind viz. Geo
G. Harris the author of<b> "How to lead Muslims to Christ".</b> This
missionary who tried to convert the Muslims of China says in the usual arrogant
and condecending manner of the Westerner on page 19 under the heading<b> —
"THE THEORY OR CHARGE OF CORRUPTION."</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"WE NOW COME TO THE MOST SERIOUS
CHARGE BY THE MOSLEM WORLD, AGAINST OUR CHRISIIAN SCRIPTURES. THERE ARE THREE
ASPECTS OF THIS CHARGE. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. That the Christian scriptures have been
so changed and altered that they bear little, if any, resemblance to the
glorious Injil praised in the Qur'an. This can be answered by the asking of one
of the following questions: Wherein have these been so changed or altered? Can
you obtain a copy of a true Injil and show it that I may compare it with mine?
At what date in past history was the unaltered Injil in circulation? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. That our Gospels have suffered
corruption. The following five questions are definite and we have a perfect
right to ask them; </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(a) Was such corruption or alteration
intentional? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(b) Can you point out in my Bible one such
passage? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(c) How did this passage read originally? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(d) When, by whom, how<b> or</b> why was
it corrupted or altered? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">(e) Was such, corruption of the text or of
the meaning? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. That our Gospels are "faked"
substitutes for the original Injil. Or that our Gospels are the handiwork of
men, not the noble Injil which descended upon Jesus. A little questioning will
usually reveal the true situation, that usually the Moslem making the charge is
woefully ignorant of the Bible or New Testament as it actually existed in the
past or exists today. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">BEFORE GOING ON TO THE LATTER HALF OF THIS
DISCUSSION, A REMINDER IS IMPORTANT THAT AS SOON AS THE OBJECTOR IS WILLING TO
SENSE THE FLIMSINESS OF SUCH A CHARGE WE SHOULD PRESS HOME SOME TEACHING FROM
OUR SCRIPIURES, THAT OUR EFFORT MAY BE POSITIVE AND NOT NEGATIVE." </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">HAVE MUSLIMS THE ANSWER?</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have we as Muslims no answers for these
questions?<b> If you, gentle reader have read this book you will admit that Ceo
G. Harris has no feet to stand on.</b> I have been able to give actual pages
from the Bible to disprove his assertions. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">MUSLIMS CHALLENGED</span></u></b><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">On page 16 of Geo G. Harris' book he
teaches his comrades a basic missionary rule in order to corner the Muslim
prospective: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">"In this chapter it is assumed that
the question of the authenticity and genuineness of our scriptures has been
raised by the Mohammedan. When this is the case, before we undertake defence of
our position we should bear in mind a basic rule. THE BURDEN OF PROOF RESTS
WITH THE MOSLEM."</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;"> 1</span></sup></b><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Praise be to Allah that in my 40 years of
disproving the authenticity of the Bible which the Christians have so boldly
asked for, I have been able to win the day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Remember, we Muslims do not go door to
door peddling our religion. Whereas Christians of different denominations
encroach upon our privacy and peace and take advantage of our hospitality to
harass the unwary Musalman. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Those who are afraid to project the truth
when they are provoked by these Christians, who even go to the extent of
insulting our beloved Nabee Muhummed (S.A.W.) should re-examine their Eemaan. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The lectures I hold are to sound out these
slinking missionaries who "attack" the home and hearth of the
unsuspecting Muslim who goes about minding his own business. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The lectures are also aimed at restoring
the damaged dignity of the Muslim who has been ruffled by the ruthless attacks
of the Christian pedlar. Ask the poor Muslims of Chatsworth, Hanover
Park or Riverlea</span><b><sup><span style="color: magenta;">2</span></sup></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> as to how they are subjected to the tyrany
of certain missionaries. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If this humble little contribution of mine<b>
"Is</b> the<b> Bible God's Word?"</b> finds a place in the Muslim
home as a bulwark against the missionary menace my effort would be amply
rewarded. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">A greater reward would be if even one sincere
disciple of Jesus (on whom be peace) were to be led to the truth and be removed
from fabrications and falsehood. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The greatest reward of course lies with
Allah Almighty whom I supplicate for guidance and mercy and pray and crave that
He accepts my effort which I dedicate to Him in all humility. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b>Alhamdo-lillah!</b> (Praise be to Allah), the reader
will agree that in this and our other publications listed on the back cover <a href="http://www.jamaat.net/deedat.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(MAIN
PAGE)</span></a>, we have been constantly meeting this Christian challenge.
(Praise be to Allah), the reader will agree that in this and our other
publications listed on the back cover <a href="http://www.jamaat.net/deedat.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(MAIN PAGE)</span></a>, we have been
constantly meeting this Christian challenge. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> These are Just a couple of the many townships in which the
poorer Muslim is made to live by law under the South African<b> "Group
Areas Act"</b> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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Islam honors all the prophets who were sent to mankind. Muslims respect all prophets in general, but Jesus in particular, because he was one of the prophets who foretold the coming of Muhammad. Muslims, too, await the second coming of Jesus. They consider him one of the greatest of Allah's prophets to mankind. A Muslim does not refer to him simply as "Jesus," but normally adds the phrase "peace be upon him" as a sign of respect. <br />
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No other religion in the world respects and dignifies Jesus as Islam does. The Quran confirms his virgin birth (a chapter of the Quran is entitled "Mary"), and Mary is considered to have been one of the purest women in all creation. The Quran describes Jesus' birth as follows: <br />
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{Behold!' the Angel said, God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and in the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and he shall be of the righteous. She said: "My Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: "Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, 'Be!' and it is} [Noble Quran 3:42-47].<br />
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Muslims believe that Jesus was born immaculately, and through the same power which had brought Eve to life and Adam into being without a father or a mother. <br />
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{Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was} [Noble Quran 3:59].<br />
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During his prophetic mission, Jesus performed many miracles. The Quran tells us that he said: <br />
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{I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave} [Noble Quran 3:49].<br />
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Muhammad and Jesus, as well as the other prophets, were sent to confirm the belief in one God. This is referred to in the Quran where Jesus is reported as saying that he came: <br />
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{To attest the law which was before me, and to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and obey me} [Noble Quran 3:50].<br />
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Prophet Muhammad emphasized the importance of Jesus by saying: «Whoever believes there is no god but Allah, alone without partner, that Muhammad is His messenger, that Jesus is a servant and messenger of God, His word breathed into Mary and a spirit emanating from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, shall be received by God into Heaven» [Bukhari].</div>
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<a href="http://www.alquranandmodernscience.wordpress.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRraPrHy0ZnPbti23lXEcFejZXvEiLfRxFnENc-F1mIuyk_E5jcm2nT1kgvcxndNo7xSCOUGPZijPpw1tuPWZHGRD6wJBfv8GJ3icnwQgNE3LEYS6v8SeMXrIYv0L83eZO0hBJSCgUn3o/s320/524001_10151406738666204_1929077399_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>Muslims respect and revere Jesus (peace be upon him) , and await his second coming. They consider him one of the greatest of God’s messengers to mankind....<br />
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A Muslim never refers to him simply as `Jesus', but always adds the phrase "peace be upon him." The Qur’aan confirms his virgin birth (a chapter of the Qur’aan is entitled `Mary') in her time, and Mary is considered the purest woman in all creation. The Qur’aan describes the creation of Jesus as follows (interpretation of the meaning):<br />
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"Behold! the Angel said, `God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you glad tidings of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter, and one that shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and shall be of the righteous.' She said: `O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: `Even so; God creates what He wills. When He decrees a thing, He but says to it, "Be!" and it is." [Quran 3:42-7]<br />
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Jesus (peace be upon him) was born miraculously through the same power which had brought Adam (peace be upon him) into being without a father:<br />
"Truly, the likeness of Jesus unto Allaah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, and then said to him, `Be!' and he was." [ Quran 3:59 ]<br />
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During his prophetic mission, Jesus (peace be upon him) was granted and performed many miracles. The Qur’aan tells us that he said (interpretation of meaning):<br />
"I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of the clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by Allaah’s leave. And I heal the blind and the lepers, and I raise the dead by Allaah’s leave." [Quran 3:49]<br />
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Other miracles include speaking soon after birth in defense of his mother's piety. God's other gifts to him included healing the blind and the sick, reviving the dead, and, most importantly, the message he was carrying. These miracles were granted to him by God to establish him as a prophet. According to the Qur’aan, he was not crucified, but only appeared so; instead, Allaah raised him unto Heaven. (Quraan, Chapter Maryam) <br />
Neither Muhammad (peace be upon him), nor Jesus (peace be upon him), came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in one God, brought by earlier prophets, but to confirm and renew it. In the Quran Jesus (peace be upon him), is reported as saying that he came: <br />
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" To attest the law which was before me. And to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden you; I have come to you with a sign form your Lord, so fear God and obey me." [Quran 3:50]</div>
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<a href="http://muslim-teacher.blogspot.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>(Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:136) <br />
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"We believe in One Creator, we believe in all His Prophets, we believe that Jesus (peace be upon him) was one of the mightiest Prophets of God, That he was the Messiah as well as the Word of God, that he was born miraculously - without any male intervention (which many modern-day Christians do not believe today), that he gave life to the deeds by God's Permission, and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God's Permission." <br />
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Islam respects all religions. Nevertheless, Muslims consider the view of Christendom to be a misguided one. The Qur'an highlights the important aspects of Jesus (peace be upon him) mother, his birth, his mission and his ascension to heaven. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Virgin Mary </b></span><br />
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The story of Jesus (peace be upon him) in the Qur'an starts with the conception of his mother, Mary, when the wife of Imran, Mary's mother, vowed to dedicate her child to the service of God in the temple. This is mentioned in the following verses (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"(Remember) when the wife of 'Imran said: "O my Lord! I have vowed to You what (the child that) is in my womb to be dedicated for Your services (free from all worldly work; to serve Your place of worship), so accept this, from me. Verily, You are the All-Hearer, the All-Knowing." <br />
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"Then when she delivered her child [Maryam (Mary)], she said: "O my Lord! I have delivered a female child," - and Allah knew better what she delivered, - "And the male is not like the female, and I have named her Maryam (Mary), and I seek refuge with You (Allah) for her and for her offspring from Shaytan (Satan), the outcast." <br />
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"So her Lord (Allah) accepted her with goodly acceptance, He made her grow in a good manner and put her under the care of Zakariya (Zachariya). Every time he entered Al-Mihrab (a praying place or private room) to (visit) her, he found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Maryam (Mary)! from where have you got this?" She said "This is from Allah" Verily, Allah provides sustenance to whom He wills, without limit." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-'Imran 3:35-37) <br />
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The Qur'an stated also that the Almighty Allah chose Mary, purified her and raised her above all other women of the world. This is mentioned in the following verses (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"And (remember) when the angels said: "O Maryam (Mary)! Verily, Allah has chosen you, purified you (from polytheism and disbelief), and chosen you above the women of the 'Alamin (Mankind and Jinns) (of her lifetime)." <br />
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"O Mary! "Submit yourself with obedience to your Lord (Allah, by worshipping none but Him Alone) and prostrate yourself, and Irkai (bow down etc.) along with Ar-Raki'un (those who bow etc.)" <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-'Imran 3:42-43) <br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Miraculous Birth Of Jesus </b></span><br />
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Concerning the birth of Jesus (peace be upon him), Allah says through chapter Mary in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"And mention in the Book (The Qur'an, O Muhammad, the story of) Maryam (Mary), when she withdrew in seclusion from her family to a place facing east." <br />
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"She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our Ruh [angel Jibrael (Gabriel)], and he appeared before her in the form of a man in all respects." <br />
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"She said: "Verily! I seek refuge with the Most Beneficent (Allah) from you, if you do fear Allah." <br />
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"(The angel) said: "I am only a Messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a righteous son." <br />
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"She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?" <br />
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"He said: "So (it will be), your Lord said: 'That is easy for Me (Allah): And (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (Allah), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by Allah)." <br />
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"So she conceived him, and she withdrew him to a far place (i.e. Bethlehem valley about 4-6 miles from Jerusalem)." <br />
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"And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the date-palm. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!" <br />
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"Then [the babe 'Isa (Jesus) cried unto her from below her, saying: "Grieve not! Your Lord has provided a water stream under you;" <br />
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"And shake the trunk of date-palm towards you, it will let fall fresh ripe dates upon you." <br />
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"So eat and drink and be glad, and if you see any human being, say: 'Verily! I have vowed a fast unto the Most Beneficent (Allah) so I shall not speak to any human being this day." <br />
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"Then she brought him (the baby) to her people, carrying him. They said: "O Mary! Indeed you have brought a thing Fariya (an unheard mighty thing)." <br />
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"O sister (i.e. the like) of Harun (Aaron) [not the brother of Musa (Moses), but he was another pious man at the time of Maryam (Mary)]! Your father was not a man who used to commit adultery, nor your mother was an unchaste woman." <br />
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"Then she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?" <br />
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"He ['Isa (Jesus)] said: Verily! I am a slave of Allah, He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet;" <br />
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"And He has made me blessed wherever I be, and has enjoined on me Salat (prayer), and Zakat (charity), as long as I live." <br />
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"And dutiful to my mother, and made me not arrogant, unblest." <br />
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"And Salaam (peace) be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!" <br />
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"Such is 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). (It is) a statement of truth, about which they doubt (or dispute)." <br />
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"It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son [this refers to the slander of Christians against Allah, by saying that 'Isa (Jesus) is the son of Allah]. Glorified (and Exalted be He above all that they associate with Him). When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, "Be!" - and it is." <br />
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['Isa (Jesus) said]: "And verily Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him (Alone). That is the Straight Path. (Allah's Religion of Islamic Monotheism which He did ordain for all of His Prophets)." <br />
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(Qur'an, Maryam 19:16-36) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jesus the Son of Mary </b></span><br />
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<a href="http://alquranobiggan.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqWMfREVg3SZrgRmmL4V0bjqf-y0LFoxkb6YgQiEOXO8ZGf_-ZDnM8E9LEk2aO7xC1BVODngsDGRqkbU9OjNnm2SkHKBfbOat2q5aTLDDeCo3oZjHzvO7GUQSW2K3CVEDwCMmJl5N474/s400/jesus_muslim_didem_rahvanci.jpg" width="400" /></a>The Church maintains that Jesus (peace be upon him) is the "Only-begotten Son" of God, and also God Himself, since the doctrine of Trinity considers God as the Son, as the Father and as the "Holy Ghost" all at the same time! Catholics further emphasize the divinity of Mary as the "Mother of God". Islam rejects all these concepts in totality. Allah says in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"Surely, they have disbelieved who say: "Allah is the Messiah ['Isa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary)", But the Messiah ['Isa (Jesus)] said; "O Children of Israel! worship Allah, My Lord and your Lord." Verily, whosoever set up partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Polytheist and wrongdoers there are no helpers." <br />
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"Surely, disbelievers are those who said: "Allah is the third of the three (in a Trinity)", But there is no Ilah (God) (none who has the right to be worshipped) but One Ilah (God - Allah). And if they cease not from what they say, verily, painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them." <br />
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"Will they not repent to Allah and ask His forgiveness? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." <br />
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"The Messiah ['Isa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary), was no more than a Messenger; Many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother [Maryam (Mary)] was a Siddiqah [i.e. she believed in the words of Allah and His Books]. They both used to eat food (as any other human being, while Allah does not eat). Look how We make the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lesson, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to them, yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth)." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-Maidah 5:72-75) <br />
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The Muslims rather contend that the miraculous birth of Jesus (peace be upon him) without a father does not make him a God or a "begotten" son of God. Allah said in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"And they (Jews, Christians and pagans) say: Allah has begotten a son (Children or offspring). Glory be to Him (Exalted be He above all that they associate with Him). Nay, to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth, and all surrender with obedience (in worship) to Him." <br />
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"The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be!" - and it is." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:116-117) <br />
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Further more Allah says in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"Say: (O Muhammad) "He is Allah, (the) One", "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks)", "He begets not, nor was He begotten", "And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-Ikhlas 112:1-4) <br />
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The birth of Jesus (peace be upon him) was not any more supernatural than the creation of our father Adam. Allah said in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"Verily, the likeness of 'Isa (Jesus) before Allah is the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" - and he was." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-'Imran 3:59) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Mission of Jesus </b></span><br />
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Our creator sent Prophets to set mankind on the right path. Jesus (peace be upon him) was similarly one of the Messengers of God, he was prepared by God to be sent to the Jews (children of Israel) who had deviated from the teachings of prophet Moses (peace be upon him) He (Allah) taught him the Book, the wisdom, the Torah, the Gospel and supported him with numerous miracles to prove that he was a Messenger from Allah. In the Qur'an Allah says (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"(Remember) when the angels said: "O Maryam (Mary)! Verily, Allah gives you the glad tidings of a Word ["Be!" - and he was! i.e. 'Isa (Jesus) the son of Maryam (Mary)] from him, his name will be the Messiah 'Isa (Jesus), the son of Maryam (Mary), held in honour in this world and in the Hereafter, and will be one of those who are near to Allah." <br />
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"He will speak to the people in the cradle and in manhood, and he will be one of the righteous." <br />
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"She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me", He said: "So (it will be) for Allah creates what He wills. When He has decreed something, He says to it only: "Be!" - and it is." <br />
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"And He (Allah) will teach him ['Isa (Jesus)] the Book and Al-Hikmah (i.e. the Sunnah, the faultless speech of the Prophets, wisdom, etc.), (and) the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)." <br />
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"And will make him ['Isa (Jesus)] a Messenger to the children of Israel (saying): "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave. And I inform you of what you eat, and what you store in your houses. Surely, therein is a sign for you, if you believe." <br />
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"And I have to confirm that which was before me of the Taurat (Torah), and to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden to you, and I have come to you with a proof from your Lord. So fear Allah and obey me." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-'Imran 3:45-50) <br />
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It should be mentioned that while Muslims believe that Jesus (peace be upon him) was given God's "Good news" they do not recognise the present "Four Gospels" as the utterances of Jesus (peace be upon him). <br />
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Even the church agrees that the "Four Gospels" were written by four different men, but they maintain that they were divinely inspired. This idea is rejected by us. It can be agreed that if the four writers were divinely inspired, then why are there so many serious discrepancies and omissions in their individual accounts of the life of Jesus (peace be upon him)? Another mission of Jesus (peace be upon him) was to tell the people about the coming of the final Prophet after him. The Almighty God said in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"And (remember) when 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), said: "O Children of Israel! I am the Messenger of Allah unto you confirming the Taurat [(Torah) which came] before me, and giving glad tidings of a Messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmed. But when he (Ahmed i.e. Muhammad) came to them with clear proofs, they said: "This is plain magic." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-Anam 6:61) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jesus was Raised to Heaven </b></span><br />
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Jesus (peace be upon him) was followed by a few disciples who were inspired by God to support him. Not only that, but the nonbelievers plotted to kill Jesus (peace be upon him), but God had a better plan for him and his followers as the Qur'an tells us in the following verses (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"Then when 'Isa (Jesus) came to know of their disbelief, he said: "Who will be my helpers in Allah's Cause?" Al-Hawariun (the disciples) said: "We are the helpers of Allah; we believe in Allah, and bear witness that we are Muslims (i.e. we submit to Allah)." <br />
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"Our Lord! We believed in what You have sent down, and we follow the Messenger ['Isa (Jesus)]; so write us down among those who bear witness (to the truth i.e. La Ilaha Ill-Allah - none has the right to be worshipped but Allah)." <br />
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"And they (disbelievers) plotted [to kill 'Isa (Jesus)], and Allah planned too. And Allah is the best of the planners." <br />
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"And (remember) when Allah said: "O 'Isa (Jesus)! I will take you and raise you to Myself and clear you [of the forged statement that 'Isa (Jesus) is Allah's son] of those who disbelieve, and I will make those who follow you (Monotheist, who worship none but Allah) superior to those who disbelieve [in the Oneness of Allah, or disbelieve in some of His Messengers, e.g. Muhammad, 'Isa (Jesus), Musa (Moses), etc. (peace be upon them), or in His Holy Books, e.g. the Taurat (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), The Qur'an] till the Day of Resurrection. Then you will return to Me and I will judge between you in the matters in which you used to dispute." <br />
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"As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-'Imran 3:52-56) <br />
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As the above verses indicate Jesus was raised to heaven before he died. This means that according to the Qur'an he was not crucified. It was the plan of the enemies of Jesus (peace be upon him) to put him to death on the cross, but God saved him and somebody else was crucified. This plot and the false accusation about Mary are considered by the Qur'an to be some of the sins of the non-believing Jews. All of this is made clear in the following verses (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"And because of their (Jews) disbelief and uttering against Maryam (Mary) a grave false charge (that she has committed illegal sexual intercourse);" <br />
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"And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allah," - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of 'Isa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam [Mary]:" <br />
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"But Allah raised him ['Isa (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he (peace be upon him) is in the heaven). And Allah is ever All-Powerful, All-Wise." <br />
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"And there is none of the people of the scripture (Jews and Christians), but must believe in him ['Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), as only a Messenger of Allah and a human being], before his ['Isa (Jesus) or a Jews or a Christian's] death (at the time of the appearance of the angel of death). And on the Day of Resurrection, he ['Isa (Jesus)] will be a witness against them." <br />
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(Qur'an, An-Nisa 4:156-159) <br />
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Finally, we testify that there is no God except Allah and there is none worthy of worship except Him, He has no partners, Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger, and that 'Isa (Jesus) son of Mary is Allah's slave, His Messenger, His word (Be! and he was) which he bestowed on Mary and a spirit created by Him. We believe that all Prophets are brothers no different between their religion, which is one religion "Al-Islam". We attest that the Paradise is true, the Hell-fire is true, and God will Resurrect mankind from graves. Allah says in The Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"He (Allah) has ordained for you the same religion (Islam) which He ordained for Nuh (Noah), and that which We have inspired in you (O Muhammad) and that which We ordained for Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses) and 'Isa (Jesus) saying you should establish religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no divisions in it (religion) (i.e. various sects in religion). Intolerable for the Polytheist, pagans and idolaters is that to which you (O Muhammad) call them. Allah chooses for Himself who He wills, and guides unto Himself who turns to Him in repentance and in obedience." <br />
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(Qur'an, Ash-Shura 42:13) <br />
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This is our message and we will be witnesses against you in the day of Judgement that we conveyed the message of truth and left it up to you, to follow the truth or stay in darkness. The Almighty Allah said in the Qur'an (which is translated as follows): <br />
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"Allah! La Ilaha Illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who Sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi (a footstool or chair) extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great." <br />
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"There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Right path has become distinct from the wrong path. Whoever disbelieves in worship other than the real God (Allah), and believes in Allah, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break. Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower." <br />
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(Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:255-256) </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>In Judaism, who is the Messiah?</b></span><br />
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The messiah is a G-d fearing, pious Jew, who is both a great Torah scholar and
a great leader as well. He is a direct descendent of King David, and will be
anointed as the new Jewish King. (In fact, the Hebrew word for messiah -
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When the messiah comes, there will be a universal recognition of the truth of
Torah and the G-d Who gave that Torah at Mount Sinai.
All Jews will return to the Land
of Israel, where they
will throw off the yoke of their enemies and undergo a complete spiritual
revival. They will embrace the faith of their forefathers and dedicate
themselves to G-d's service forever.<br />
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They will re-build the Holy
Temple, from where the
Divine presence will shine forth, spreading the light of truth, justice,
tolerance and peace throughout the world.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The Moshiach</b></span>
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The moshiach will be a great political leader descended from King David
(Jeremiah 23:5). The moshiach is often referred to as "moshiach ben
David" (moshiach, son of David). He will be well-versed in Jewish law, and
observant of its commandments. (Isaiah 11:2-5) He will be a charismatic leader,
inspiring others to follow his example. He will be a great military leader, who
will win battles for Israel.
He will be a great judge, who makes righteous decisions (Jeremiah 33:15). <b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">But above all, he will be a human being, not
a god, demi-god or other supernatural being. </span></u></b><br />
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It has been said that in every generation, a person is born with the potential
to be the moshiach. If the time is right for the messianic age within that
person's lifetime, then that person will be the moshiach. But if that person
dies before he completes the mission of the moshiach, then that person is not
the moshiach.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">8- Will you worship Jesus, or the
one Jesus worshiped? </span></b><br />
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One glaring problem the Christians have is that Jesus prayed, and had a God
himself. This logically lets us conclude that Jesus cannot be God. The logical
thing to do is worship and pray to the one Jesus prayed to. If Jesus told you
that he had a God, would you honestly take Jesus as God? The logical answer is
no, but Christians throw all logic out when it comes to their Bible.<br />
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<span style="color: seagreen;">Matthew 26:36-44<br />
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36. Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane,
and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."<br />
37. He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to
be sorrowful and troubled.<br />
38. Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point
of death. Stay here and keep watch with me."<br />
39. Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed,<u>
"My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I
will, but as you will." </u>40. Then he returned to his disciples and
found them sleeping. "Could you men not keep watch with me for one
hour?" he asked Peter.<br />
41. "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit
is willing, but the body is weak."<br />
<u>42. He went away a second time and prayed, "</u>My Father, if it is not
possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be
done."<br />
43. When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were
heavy.<br />
</span><u><span style="color: red;">44. So he left them and went away once more
and prayed the third time, SAYING THE SAME THING. </span></u></div>
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So are you going worship the one Jesus prayed to? Or are you going to worship
Jesus? Logically you worship the one Jesus prayed to.</div>
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Secondly just say you were alive at Jesus' time and you were with him, and you
knew he prayed to God and so on, would you honestly believe he is God? Off
course not! It gets worse as Jesus himself claims he has a God:</div>
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John 20:16-18 :</div>
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16 <b><span style="color: red;">Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself,
and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; </span></b><b><i><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">and to my God, and your God. </span></u></i><span style="color: red;">18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had
seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.</span></b></div>
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Now tell me, if a man came to you and told you he has a God, would you honestly
believe that man is God? No, you would not. Logic tells you if a man has a God
then that man is not God, however Christians throw logic out the window it
seems, Christians want to worship Jesus, not the one Jesus worshiped.
Christians want Jesus to be their God; they do not want Jesus' God to be their
God. What a shame.</div>
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So Jesus prays and has a God, how un-Godly is that?</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">9- God comes out of a woman? God is a helpless baby? </span></b></div>
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The very fact that Jesus was given birth, and came out as little helpless small
baby is enough to refute the claim that Jesus is God. It is utter blasphemy to
claim that God came out of a women like all people, it is utter blasphemy to
claim God came out crying and screaming and being helpless and weak. Such
nonsense is insulting to God; this itself is enough to prove Jesus is not God.
How can you claim that God came out of a woman? Are you mad? Are you insane?
How can you insult God in such a manner, you Christians should be ashamed of
yourselves for ascribing such rubbish to God.
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blasphemy.</div>
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Are you actually going to tell me this how God was once? How can you logically
claim that God was like this helpless baby at once?</div>
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Let us see what God's true word, the Noble Quran says on such blasphemies:</div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">002.116<br />
YUSUFALI: They say: "Allah hath begotten a son" :Glory be to
Him.-Nay, to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: everything
renders worship to Him.<br />
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019.035<br />
YUSUFALI: It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a
son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it,
"Be", and it is.<br />
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017.111<br />
YUSUFALI: Say: "Praise be to Allah, who begets no son, and has no partner
in (His) dominion: Nor (needs) He any to protect Him from humiliation: yea,
magnify Him for His greatness and glory!"<br /><br />
004.171<br />
YUSUFALI: O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of
Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a
messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit
proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not
"Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one
Allah: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong
all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of
affairs.<br />
<br />005.017<br />
YUSUFALI: In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son
of Mary. Say: "Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His will
were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every - one that is
on the earth? For to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth,
and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power
over all things."<br /><br />
005.076<br />
YUSUFALI: Say: "Will ye worship, besides Allah, something which hath no
power either to harm or benefit you? But Allah,- He it is that heareth and
knoweth all things."</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">10- The God of the Bible comes from incest! </span></b></div>
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It may come as a shocker to most, but the Bible claims that Jesus comes from
incest. Since Christians claim Jesus is God this means God came from incest,
all you have to do is go look at the family line of Jesus and see for yourself.
What makes this more sad is that Christians do not even know this information,
they claim that you are a liar if you bring it up, or that you are disgusting
etc.</div>
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Here is the proof for all to see:</div>
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Genesis 38:</div>
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1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and
turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there
a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and
went in unto her. 3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name
Er. 4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 5
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he
was at Chezib, when she bare him. 6 And Judah took a wife for Er his
firstborn, whose name was Tamar. 7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in
the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. 8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto
thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. 9 And Onan
knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto
his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give
seed to his brother. 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:
wherefore he slew him also. <b>11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law</b>,
Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said,
Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in
her father's house.</div>
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12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's
wife died; and Judah
was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend
Hirah the Adullamite.<b> 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in
law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 14 And she put her widow's garments
off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an
open place, which is by the way to Timnath;</b> for she saw that Shelah was
grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. <b>15 When Judah saw her,
he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. 16 And he
turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto
thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What
wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 17 And he said, I will
send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till
thou send it? 18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy
signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it
her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. 19 And she arose, and went
away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. </b>20
And Judah
sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge
from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 21 Then he asked the men of that
place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they
said, There was no harlot in this place. 22 And he returned to Judah, and
said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no
harlot in this place. 23 And Judah
said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and
thou hast not found her.</div>
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<b>24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying,
Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with
child by whoredom. And Judah
said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt</b>. 25 When she was brought forth,
she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with
child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff. 26 And Judah
acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that
I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. 27 And it came
to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the
midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out
first. 29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his
brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon
thee: therefore <b>his name was called Pharez. </b>30 And afterward came out
his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: <b>and his name was
called Zarah.</b></div>
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The names of the two kids who resulted out of this sexual encounter between
Judah and Tamar were Pharez and Zarah.</div>
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Here is Jesus' lineage according to Matthew 1:</div>
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1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas
and his brethren; <b>3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; </b>and
Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and
Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 5 And Salmon begat Booz of
Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; 6 And Jesse begat
David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife
of Urias; 7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat
Asa; 8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; 10
And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; 11
And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried
away to Babylon: 12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat
Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; 13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and
Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; 14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc
begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar
begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband
of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17 So all the
generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David
until the carrying away into Babylon are
fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.</div>
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So as you can see, Jesus' family line comes down from this sick act of incest
between father and daughter in law, this means the God of the Christians comes
from incest! Such blasphemy is disgusting and utterly degrading to the true God
and Christians should be ashamed of themselves.</div>
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So as we clearly saw, Jesus cannot be God,
if a Christian wants to continue believing Jesus is God, it is their own loss.</div>
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And Allah Knows Best!</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">please forgive me if I ever wronged
anyone</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">1- Jesus is not all knowing: </span></b><br />
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32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye
shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily
I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away. <b><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">36 But of that day and hour knoweth
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only</span></u></b><br />
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God is all knowing, Jesus fails this main qualification. This alone is enough
to prove that Jesus is not God. Also note the verse says ONLY the Father
meaning nobody else, including the divine Jesus.<br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">2- Jesus never said I am God. </span></b><br />
Is this a coincidence? I think not. If you make a claim on someone, then you
would expect that someone to back your claim up. If I claim somebody is a king,
you would expect that king to say he is a king, at least once. In the OT God
says he is God several times, why not once with Jesus in the NT? Did God change
his ways? I think not, since the OT says God does not change. Here are the
passages from the OT where God says he is God:<br />
Gen 35:11 And <b>God</b> said unto him, <b>I [am] God Almighty:</b> be fruitful
and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings
shall come out of thy loins<br />
Gen 46:3 And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down
into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:<br />
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Exd 16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto
them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled
with bread; and ye shall <b>know that I [am] the LORD your God. </b><br />
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Exd 20:2 <b>I [am] the LORD thy God</b>, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.<br />
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Psa 46:10 Be still, <b>and know that I [am] God</b>: I will be exalted among
the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.<br />
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Psa 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.<br />
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Psa 81:10 <b>I [am] the LORD thy God, </b>which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will
fill it.<br />
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Isa 41:10 Fear thou not; for <b>I [am] </b>with thee: be not dismayed; <b>for I
[am] thy God:</b> I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will
uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.<br />
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Isa 45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy
name,<b> [am] the God of Israel.
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Isa 45:5 I <b>[am]</b> the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no <b>God</b>
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:<br />
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Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: <b>for I [am] God,</b> and [there
is] none else; <b>[I am] God</b>, and [there is] none like me,<br />
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Jer 32:27 <b>Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh</b>: is there any
thing too hard for me?<br />
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Eze 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that
divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they
be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into
the land of Israel; <b>and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD. </b><br />
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Eze 20:19 I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and do them;<br />
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Eze 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
that ye may know that <b>I [am] the LORD your God.</b><br />
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Eze 23:49 And they shall
recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols:
and ye shall know that <b>I [am] the Lord GOD. </b><br />
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So as we can see, God is not shy to say I am God. SO if Jesus is God, then how
come he never said it once like the God of the OT? This is not a coincidence.<br />
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3- Jesus is the son of man, the OT tells us not to trust the son of man: </span></b><br />
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The New Testament makes it very clear that Jesus is the son of man:<br />
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air [have] nests; but <b>the Son of man</b> hath not where to lay [his] head.<br />
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Mat 9:6 But that <b>ye may know that the Son of man </b>hath power on earth to
forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed,
and go unto thine house<br />
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Mat 12:8 For the <b>Son of man</b> is Lord even of the sabbath day.<br />
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Luk 9:44 Let these sayings
sink down into your ears: for the <b>Son of man</b> shall be delivered into the
hands of men.<br />
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Luk 9:22 Saying, The <b>Son
of man </b>must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.<br />
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Jhn 5:27 And hath given
him authority to execute judgment also, <b>because he is the Son of man. </b><br />
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The Old Testament tells us not to put our trust in the son of man:<br />
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Psalms 146:<br />
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1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.<br />
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I
have any being.<br />
3 <b><u>Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is
no help.</u></b><br />
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So note, Jesus is the son of man, the OT tells us not to put our trust in the
son of man; therefore we cannot place our trust in Jesus so he cannot be God.
The OT is basically saying that you shouldn't put your trust in men as you do
with God, so hence we cannot put our trust in Jesus in the same way we do with
God since Jesus is just a man, and he cannot really save us. So hence Jesus
cannot be God.<br />
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1- Jesus is the son of man<br />
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2- The OT tells us not to put our trust in the son of man<br />
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3- we cannot put our trust in Jesus as we do with God<br />
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4- Jesus is not God<br />
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The OT also tells us that there is no help in the son of man, therefore this
means Jesus cannot help anybody, therefore he is not God since God can help
all. So we cannot place our trust in Jesus, nor can he help us, therefore he
cannot be God according to the OT.<br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">4- Jesus was GIVEN power and authority, he did not own it. </span></b><br />
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As we all know, God is all-powerful and is independent, he needs no help from
anybody. However so this is not the case with Jesus, unlike God, Jesus needs
help from God, unlike God, Jesus does not own any power or any authority,
rather it is given to him from God.<br />
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Jhn 13:3 Jesus knowing that the <b>Father had given all things</b> into his
hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;<br />
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John 17:6-8: 6 <b><span style="color: red;">I have manifested thy name unto the
men which</span><u><span style="color: green;"> thou gavest me </span></u><span style="color: red;">out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known</span><u><span style="color: green;"> that ALL THINGS whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
</span></u><span style="color: red;">8 For<u> I have given unto them the words
which thou gavest me;</u> and they have received them, and have known surely
that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me </span></b><br />
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So as we can see, Jesus GIVEN everything he had! This all included miracle,
doctrine etc. Basically Jesus did not do anything of his own, he never
performed a miracle by his own power, he was given the miracle. He never taught
anything of his own, rather he was taught by God and spoke what God told him to
speak.<br />
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Jhn 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, <b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My
doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me </span></b><br />
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Jhn 12:49 <b>For I have not spoken of myself;</b> but the Father which <b>sent
me,</b> <b>he gave me a commandment, </b>what <u>I should </u>say, and what <u>I
should </u>speak.<br />
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Jhn 8:26 I have many things
to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; <b><u>and I speak to
the world those things which I have heard of him. </u></b><br />
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Jhn 14:24 He that loveth
me not keepeth <b>not my sayings:</b> and the word <b>which ye hear<u> is not
mine, </u>but the Father's which sent me. </b><br />
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So everything Jesus had was from God, from the Gospel to his miracles. God
needs no one to give him power, God needs no one to tell him what to do,
therefore Jesus is not God.<br />
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I challenge any Christian to bring me one single miracle Jesus performed on his
own, just one. The Christian will never be able to meet this challenge.<br />
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5- Jesus was sent to a specific nation only, not to mankind </span></b><br />
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It is very strange that when we read the Bible, we find that Jesus was sent to
preach to a specific nation only, not mankind. One would expect to find Jesus
being sent to all of mankind if he was God, rather what we find is that Jesus
just like all the other prophets, was sent to a specific nation only:<br />
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Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.<br />
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So as we see, Jesus was sent only for the lost sheep of Israel. His main duty was for them,
not the gentiles or the world. Christians often like to say Jesus told his
disciples to go preach to the gentiles, however so this doesn't change
anything. Jesus' real mission as we see was for the children of Israel,
not the gentiles, the verse I posted cannot be refuted. The verse is very
clear, Jesus is SENT for the lost sheep of Israel, not the Gentiles, Jesus
saying go preach to Gentiles does not mean he was sent for gentiles.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">1- 5- Jesus denied being good in the sense that God is good.</span><br />
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If Jesus is God one would expect him to admit he is good in the sense that God
is good, meaning perfect. However when we read the Bible we see that Jesus
denies being good in the sense that God is good which is perfect. Here are the
passages:<br />
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Mat 19:16 And, behold, one
came and said unto him, <b>Good </b>Master, what<b> good </b>thing shall I do,
that I may have eternal life?<br />
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Mat 19:17 And he said unto
him, Why callest thou me <b>good?</b> [there is] none <b>good </b>but one,
[that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.<br />
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So note, the man calls Jesus good, Jesus tells the man there is no good but
God. Obviously Jesus referred to God as someone else, which also proves Jesus
isn't God. However the main importance of the passages is that Jesus denies
being Good in the way God is good, which is to be perfect.<br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">6- Jesus could not save anyone </span></b><br />
The Bible also claims that Jesus cannot save anyone! Here is the passage:<br />
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Hebrews 5:1-8: 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men
in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of
the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason
hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as
was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest;
but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 6 As
he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec. <span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">7 </span><b>Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save him from death</b>, and was heard in that
he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which
he suffered<br />
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So Jesus cried to the one who could save him from death, this means Jesus could
not save himself from death, therefore this also means Jesus cannot save anyone
else from death. How can Jesus be God when he cannot save anyone? This also
shows that Jesus is not in control of life and death, God however is in control
of everything, including life and death:<br />
<br />
And they have taken besides Him gods, who do not create anything while they are
themselves created, and they control not for themselves any harm or profit, and
<u>they control not death nor life, nor raising (the dead) to life. S. 25:3
Shakir</u><br />
This verse is from the Noble Quran, I guess this sums it all up doesn't it?<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">7- Jesus' believers did NOT believe
he was God neither </span></b><br />
<br />
One of the greatest Christian myths is that Jesus' followers believed he was
God. However so, this is not true, the Bible says otherwise:<br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Matthew<br />
Chapter 16<br />
13-14 </span><br />
<br />
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, <b><u><span style="color: red;">Whom do men say that I the Son
of man am? </span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 7.5pt;">14</span><span style="color: red;"> And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist:
some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets</span></u></b><br />
<br />
So as we can see, the believers out of the population did not take Jesus as
God, they took him for a great man, such as John the Baptist, or Elias, or some
others. None of them said he is God. Now let us read on and see what his own
disciples took him for:<br />
<br />
15-20<br />
<br />
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 <u>And Simon Peter
answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.</u> 17 And
Jesus answered and said unto him, <b><span style="color: red;">Blessed art thou,
Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my
Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</span></b> <u>20
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus
the Christ.</u><br />
<br />
So note, now Jesus asks his disciples about what they take him to be for, they
respond by saying he is the SON OF GOD, Jesus agrees with them and tells them
tell no man I am the Christ. So note, Jesus' disciples do not say you are God,
Jesus himself does not say he is God.<br />
<br />
Now both the son of God and the term Christ do not mean God. They never have,
and never will. The term Christ means Messiah, the definition of Messiah is not
God, and the Jews who were awaiting their Messiah did not believe the Messiah
would be God:<br />
<br />
The predominant Jewish understanding of moshiach ("the messiah") is
based on the writings of Maimonides, (the Rambam). His views on the messiah are
discussed in his Mishneh Torah, his 14 volume compendium of Jewish law, in the
section Hilkhot Melakhim Umilchamoteihem, chapter 11. Maimonides writes:<br />
<br />
"The anointed King ("HaMelekh HaMoshiach") is destined to stand
up and restore the Davidic
Kingdom to its antiquity,
to the first sovereignty. He will build the Temple
in Jerusalem and gather the strayed ones of Israel
together. All laws will return in his days as they were before: Sacrificial
offerings are offered and the Sabbatical years and Jubilees are kept, according
to all its precepts that are mentioned in the Torah. Whoever does not believe
in him, or whoever does not wait for his coming, not only does he defy the
other prophets, but also the Torah and our Rabbi Moses. For the Torah testifies
about him, thus: "And the Lord Your God will return your returned ones and
will show you mercy and will return and gather you... If your strayed one shall
be at the edge of Heaven... And He shall bring you" etc."
(Deuteronomy 30:3-5).<br />
<br />
"These words that are explicitly stated in the Torah, encompass and
include all the words spoken by all the prophets. In the section of Torah
referring to Bala'am, too, it is stated, and there he prophesied about the two
anointed ones: The first anointed one is David, who saved Israel from all their
oppressors; and the last anointed one will stand up from among his descendants
and saves Israel in the end. This is what he says (Numbers 24:17-18): "I
see him but not now" - this is David; "I behold him but not
near" - this is the Anointed King. "A star has shot forth from
Jacob" - this is David; "And a brand will rise up from Israel"
- this is the Anointed King. "And he will smash the edges of Moab" - This is David, as it states:
"...And he struck Moab
and measured them by rope" (II Samuel 8:2); "And he will uproot all
Children of Seth" - this is the Anointed King, of whom it is stated:
"And his reign shall be from sea to sea" (Zechariah 9:10). "And Edom
shall be possessed" - this is David, thus: "And Edom became David's as slaves
etc." (II Samuel 8:6); "And Se'ir shall be possessed by its
enemy" - this is the Anointed King, thus: "And saviors shall go up Mount Zion
to judge Mount Esau, and the Kingdom shall be the
Lord's" (Obadiah 1:21)."<br />
<br />
"And by the Towns of Refuge it states: "And if the Lord your God will
widen up your territory... you shall add on for you another three towns"
etc. (Deuteronomy 19:8-9). Now this thing never happened; and the Holy One does
not command in vain. But as for the words of the prophets, this matter needs no
proof, as all their books are full with this issue."<br />
<br />
"Do not imagine that the anointed King must perform miracles and signs and
create new things in the world or resurrect the dead and so on. The matter is
not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he
was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba, and claimed that he was the
anointed king. He and all the Sages of his generation deemed him the anointed
king, until he was killed by sins; only since he was killed, they knew that he
was not. The Sages asked him neither a miracle nor a sign..."<br />
<br />
"And if a king shall stand up from among the House of David, studying
Torah and indulging in commandments like his father David, according to the
written and oral Torah, and he will coerce all Israel to follow it and to
strengthen its weak points, and will fight Hashem's wars, this one is to be
treated as if he were the anointed one. If he succeeded {and won all nations
surrounding him. Old prints and mss.} and built a Holy Temple in its proper place
and gathered the strayed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed
one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord
together, as it is stated: "For then I shall turn for the nations a clear
tongue, to call all in the Name of the Lord and to worship Him with one
shoulder" (Zephaniah 3:9)."<br />
<br />
"But if he did not succeed until now, or if he was killed, it becomes
known that he is not this one of whom the Torah had promised us, and he is
indeed like all proper and wholesome kings of the House of David who died. The
Holy One, Blessed Be He, only set him up to try the public by him, thus:
"And from the seekers of wisdom there shall stumble, to purify among them
and to clarify and to brighten until the time of the ending, for there is yet
to the set time" (Daniel 11:35)."</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Truth about Jesus</span></span></i> </b></span><br />
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The Qur'aan is the last version of God's revelation and
what it says is the ultimate truth. This might not mean much for those who do
not believe in the Qur'aan as such. However, the history <a href="http://islamk-janun.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsusTj-Wg8pV8VkffXXaL56kODLWSZns_xnJGslUVqg8qfi1DhQGknvnCKNTXzY2DJD-6n7cWv14TFPoZcPsZ3pfFcyJbE1j5LIPAo_UvJepZlgdvE-4m2MoDQShCfkp_0QWhq16C6kQ/s400/stock-photo-islamic-prayer-104822201.jpg" width="400" /></a>of the Qur'aan, modern
textual criticism and scientific research of the content of this scripture
leave no doubt about the truth it contains. The frequently made statements that
the Qur'aan is the word of Muhammad who copied his information from Jewish and
Christian sources is made by people who do not know the history of the world,
the Qur'aan or Muhammad. The first Arabic translation of the Bible appeared two
centuries AFTER Muhammad's mission. If we add to this Muhammad's illiteracy and
the scarcity of religious books in any language outside churches and temples in
the sixth century we can understand the absurdity of these allegations.
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>2. </b></span>The oneness and universality of God's message requires
that people accept all the messengers of God. Rejecting one of them amounts to
rejecting them all. The Jews reject Jesus' mission and Muhammad's mission; the
Christian reject Muhammad's mission; whereas the Muslims accept them all, but
reject incorrect historical interpretations and human elements in these
missions.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>3.</b></span> Because of the Qur'aan, Muslims love and respect Jesus as
they love and respect the Prophet Muhammad. Moreover, the Qur'aan reports some
of Jesus' miracles which are not reported in the present gospel. For example,
the Qur'aan tells us that Jesus spoke in the cradle and was able to tell people
what they ate or treasured in their houses, to mention a few.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>4.</b></span> It is common knowledge that the divinity of Jesus was
introduced by Saint Paul
and his followers and was established on the dead bodies of millions of
Christians through history which evoked the Castillo's well known remark, 'To
burn a man is not to prove a doctrine'.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>5.</b></span> The choice of the present four gospels was imposed in the
conference of Nicea 325 CE under <a href="http://muslim-teacher.blogspot.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>the auspices of the pagan Emperor Constantine
for political purposes. Literally hundreds of gospels and religious writings
were considered apocrypha i.e. books of doubtful authenticity. Some of those
books were written by Jesus' disciples. If they were not more authentic than
the four gospels they were of equal authenticity. Some of them still are available
such as the GOSPEL OF BARNABAS and the SHEPHERD OF HERMAS which agree with the
Qur'aan.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>6.</b></span> The Unitarian concept and the humanness of Jesus is not
only held by Muslims but also by Jews and by some early groups of Christianity
such as the EBIONITES, the CERINTHIANS, the BASILIDIANS, the CAPOCRATIANS and
the HYPISISTARIANS to name several early sects. The Arians, Paulicians and
Goths also accepted Jesus as a Prophet of God. Even in the modern age there are
churches in Asia, in Africa, the Unitarian church,
and Jehovah Witnesses who do not worship Jesus as God.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>7.</b></span> Most serious studies of the Bible have shown that it
contains a large portion of additions which neither Jesus nor the writers of
the gospels said. The church, as Heinz Zahrnt said, 'PUT WORDS INTO THE MOUTH
OF JESUS WHICH HE NEVER SPOKE AND ATTRIBUTED ACTIONS TO HIM WHICH HE
NEVER PERFORMED'. Those conclusions were arrived at by some members of the
church. However, they are kept secret or available only to the specialists. One
of those who has shown that most of what the church says about Jesus is Rudolf
Augestein in his book JESUS SON OF MAN (published in Germany in 1972 and translated into
English in 1977).</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>8.</b></span> The problem with present Christianity is the personality
of Jesus which is completely misunderstood. Jesus's nature, mission and claimed
death are resurrection, are all challenged by studies in the field. One of
those is a book entitles, THE MYTH OF GOD INCARNATE which appeared in 1977
(edited by John Hick) and written by seven theologian scholars in England. Their
conclusion is that Jesus was 'A MAN APPROVED BY GOD, FOR SPECIAL ROLE WITHIN
THE DIVINE PURPOSE, AND. THE LATER CONCEPTION OF HIM AS GOD INCARNATE IS A
MYTHOLOGICAL OR POETIC WAY OF EXPRESSING HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR US'. The best
George Carey could say in his attempt to refute the findings of those
theologian is that unless one takes Jesus as God incarnate one wont be able to
understand Jesus's mission or explain its impact on people. This definitely is
a very weak argument because all great Prophets such as Abraham, Moses and
Muhammad have had tremendous impact on people and none of them claimed that he
was God or a son of God.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>9.</b></span> The concept of the Trinity is not, of course, available
even in the present Bible. There are statements which negate it such as 'The
Lord our God is one Lord (Matthew 12:29) and many others</div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">10.</span></b> It is worth noting that Jesus never claims divinity even
in the present text of the Bible. The expression 'SON OF GOD' cannot be said to
have come from Jesus himself. Hasting in the DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE says,
'WHETHER Jesus USED IT OF HIMSELF IS DOUBTFUL'. In my reading of the Bible, I
found only two instances in John Chapter5 and 11 where Jesus uses 'son of God'
to refer to himself. Other instances were used by others. Even those are very
limited. However, even if the title 'son of God' was used by Jesus himself one
should remember the following points:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(A) </span>As a biblical scholar said, 'Semitic language would
never have been allowed literal sense even though such an expression would be
interpreted literally in the Hellenistic word of Jesus followers'</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(B) </span>The New Testament Greek words used for 'SON' are PIAS
and PAIDA, which means 'servant' or 'son in the sense of servant', are
translated as 'son' in reference to Jesus and 'servant' in reference to others
in some translations of the Bible (Mufassir, p15)</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(C)</span> The title 'son of man' which is a self designation of
Jesus and occurs 81 times in the gospels is the clearest description and
emphasis by Jesus on his humanity. The classical interpretation given to this
title is that it is used to emphasize the human side of Jesus. Now the question
which suggests itself is: Do contemporary Christians emphasize this aspect of
Jesus?</div>
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THE POPE CONTRADICTS THE BIBLE</div>
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The traditional Biblical account of Jesus' crucifixion is
that he was arrested and crucified by the orders and plans of the chief priest
and Jewish elders. This account was denied in the 1960's by the highest
Catholic Christian authority, the Pope. He issued a statement in which he said
the Jews had nothing to do with Jesus' crucifixion. This definitely does
contradict the Biblical account. You might say: This is a political decree.
This agrees with what Muslims are saying: the church had introduced many
elements into Christianity and was influences by many factors which made its
view of Christianity not only changeable but, by and large, contradict the
early forms of Christianity.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>EVIDENCES FOR THE QUR'AANIC ACCOUNT</b></span></div>
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This implicit assumption is one of the causes of hesitation
and unwillingness of many people to accept the Qur'aanic view of Jesus. This is
in spite of the fact that this point of view is supported by:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(A)</span> The early history of Christianity which continued for
three decades after Jesus's disappearance as a sect within Judaism.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(B)</span> The practise of many Christian sects and scholars
throughout the history of Christianity</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(C)</span> The findings of many Biblical scholars and scientific
research which was applied to the Bible</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(D)</span> The instinct of many people (some of whom think they are
Christians) who believe in the One God, but can't accept Jesus as God or the
Son of God.</div>
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It is worth nothing that the main differences between the
Qur'aanic account and what modern research and scholars have found is that the
Qur'aan said what it says now about Jesus and his mission fourteen centuries
ago and never changed its stand.</div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">REASONS HOLDING PEOPLE FROM ISLAM</span></b></div>
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Some of the reasons which might account for the rejection of
the Qur'aan is account include:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(A) </span>The time honoured bias against Islam which was partly
the product of the Crusades and partly of the Arab Israeli conflict in the Middle East</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(B) </span>Confusion. Man people although they do not accept
Christianity, do not know where the truth is</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">(C)</span> Social pressure and Academic reputation. Many people
were afraid to accept Islam because they felt they would be mocked, alienated
from their relatives and peers if they openly criticised Christianity and
accepted Islam. At the academic level, especially among orientalists, if one
writes favourably about Islam and the Qur'aan nobody will review his work,
quote from it or even consider it a scholarly work. He would have been
destroyed professionally. The Washington Post (January 5th 1978) reported that
university of Richmond Professor, Dr Robert Alley lost the chairmanship of the
Department of Religion there because he holds the view that Jesus never
claimed to be the Son of God. After considerable research into newly found
ancient documents, Dr Alley concluded:</div>
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"The (Bible) passages where Jesus talks about the son
of God are later additions...what the church said about him. Such a claim of
deity for himself would not have been consistent with his entire lifestyle as
we can reconstruct. For the first three decades after Jesus' death Christianity
continued as a sect within Judaism. The first three decades of its existence of
the church were within the synagogue. That would have been beyond belief if
they (the followers) had boldly proclaimed the deity of Jesus"</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The True Narrative of
Jesus the Son of Mary as Revealed in the Qur'an</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>First mention of Jesus (may the peace and blessings of Allâh be upon
him) in the Qur'an </b></span></div>
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"And indeed, We gave Mûsa (Moses) the Book and followed him up with a
succession of Messengers. And We gave 'Iesa (Jesus), the son of Maryam (Mary),
clear signs and supported him with Rûh-ul-Qudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)]. Is it that
whenever there came to you a Messenger with what you yourselves desired not,
you grew arrogant? Some, you disbelieved and some, you killed." [The Noble
Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Baqarah (no.2), Verse 87] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Mention made of some of the Prophets of Allâh </span> </b></div>
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"And that was Our Proof which We gave Ibrâhim (Abraham) against his
people. We raise whom We will in degrees. Certainly your Lord is AllWise, AllKnowing.
And We bestowed upon him Ishâque (Isaac) and Ya'qûb (Jacob), each of
them We guided, and before him, We guided Nûh (Noah), and among his progeny
Dawûd (David), Sulaimân (Solomon), Ayub (Job), Yûsuf (Joseph), Mûsa (Moses),
and Hârûn (Aaron). Thus do We reward the gooddoers. And Zakariyâ
(Zachariya), and Yahya (John) and 'Iesa (Jesus) and Iliyâs (Elias), each one of
them was of the righteous. And Ismâ'il (Ishmael) and Al-Yas'â
(Elisha), and Yûnus (Jonah) and Lout (Lot),
and each one of them We preferred above the 'Alamîn (mankind and jinns) (of
their times)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-An’âm (no.6), Verse
83-86] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The religion followed by the Messengers was one and the same. </span> </b></div>
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"He (Allâh) has ordained for you the same religion (Islâm) which He
ordained for Nûh (Noah), and that which We have inspired in you (O Muhammad
(may the peace and blessings of Allâh be upon him)), and that which We ordained
for Ibrahîm (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses) and 'Iesa (Jesus) saying you should establish
religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no
divisions in it (religion) (i.e. various sects in religion). Intolerable for
the Mushrikûn [Those who worship others along with Allâh], is that to which you
(O Muhammad) call them. Allâh chooses for Himself whom He wills, and guides
unto Himself (he) who turns to Him in repentance and in obedience." [The
Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Ash-Shûra (no.42), Verse 13] </div>
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"Say (O Muhammad): "We believe in Allâh and in what has been sent
down to us, and what was sent down to Ibrâhim (Abraham), Ismâ'il (Ishmael),
Ishâque (Isaac), Ya'qûb (Jacob) and Al-Asbât [the twelve sons of Ya'qûb
(Jacob)] and what was given to Mûsa (Moses), 'Iesa (Jesus) and the Prophets
from their Lord. We make no distinction between one another among them and to
Him (Allâh) we have submitted (in Islâm)." And whoever seeks
a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the
Hereafter he will be one of the losers. How shall Allâh guide a
people who disbelieved after their belief and after they bore witness that the
Messenger (Muhammad) is true and after clear proofs had come unto them? And
Allâh guides not the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists and
wrong-doers)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Âl-‘Imrân (no.3), Verse
84-86] </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>What was this message? </b></span></div>
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"And verily, We have sent among every Ummah (community, nation) a
Messenger (proclaiming): "Worship Allâh (Alone), and avoid (or keep away
from) Tâghût (all false deities, etc. i.e. do not worship Tâghût besides Allâh)."
Then of them were some whom Allâh guided and of them were some upon whom the
straying was justified. So travel through the land and see what was the end of
those who denied (the truth)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter An-Nahl (no.16),
Verse 36] </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Summary of Allâh's message sent first to the Jews then to the
Christians and then to the Muslims </b></span></div>
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"Indeed Allâh took the covenant from the Children of Israel (Jews), and
We appointed twelve leaders among them. And Allâh said: "I am with you if
you perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât [establish the prayer]) and give Zakât
[compulsory religious charity] and believe in My Messengers; honour and assist
them, and lend to Allâh a good loan. Verily, I will remit your sins and admit
you to Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise).
But if any of you after this, disbelieved, he has indeed gone astray from the
Straight Path." So because of their breach of their covenant,
We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard. They change the words from
their (right) places and have abandoned a good part of the Message that was
sent to them. And you will not cease to discover deceit in them, except a few
of them. But forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds). Verily, Allâh loves
AlMuhsinûn (gooddoers - see V.2:112). And from those who call
themselves Christians, We took their covenant, but they have abandoned a good
part of the Message that was sent to them. So We planted amongst them enmity
and hatred till the Day of Resurrection (when they discarded Allâh's Book, disobeyed
Allâh's Messengers and His Orders and transgressed beyond bounds in Allâh's
disobedience), and Allâh will inform them of what they used to do.
O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Now has come to you Our
Messenger (Muhammad) explaining to you much of that which you used to hide from
the Scripture and passing over (i.e. leaving out without explaining) much.
Indeed, there has come to you from Allâh a light (Prophet Muhammad) and a plain
Book (this Qur'ân). Wherewith Allâh guides all those who seek His
Good Pleasure to ways of peace, and He brings them out of darkness by His Will
unto light and guides them to a Straight
Way (Islâmic Monotheism). Surely, in
disbelief are they who say that Allâh is the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary). Say
(O Muhammad): "Who then has the least power against Allâh, if He were to
destroy the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), his mother, and all those who are on
the earth together?" And to Allâh belongs the dominion of the heavens and
the earth, and all that is between them. He creates what He wills. And Allâh is
Able to do all things. And (both) the Jews and the Christians
say: "We are the children of Allâh and His loved ones." Say:
"Why then does He punish you for your sins?" Nay, you are but human
beings, of those He has created, He forgives whom He wills and He punishes whom
He wills. And to Allâh belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and
all that is between them, and to Him is the return (of all). O
people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Now has come to you Our
Messenger (Muhammad) making (things) clear unto you, after a break in (the
series of) Messengers, lest you say: "There came unto us no bringer of
glad tidings and no warner." But now has come unto you a bringer of glad
tidings and a warner. And Allâh is Able to do all things." [The Noble
Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse 12-19] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Allâh's covenant with his Prophets </span> </b></div>
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"And (remember) when We took from the Prophets their covenant, and from
you (O Muhammad), and from Nûh (Noah), Ibrâhim (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses), and
'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). We took from them a strong covenant.
That He may ask the truthfuls (Allâh's Messengers and His
Prophets) about their truth (i.e. the conveyance of Allâh's Message that which they
were charged with). And He has prepared for the disbelievers a painful torment
(Hell-fire)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Ahzâb (no.33), Verse
7-8] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The ones who truly believe in Allâh and his Messengers, strive to
obey him. While those who reject belief are deceived by the wealth and the
possessions of this short life. </span> </b></div>
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"O (you) Messengers! Eat of the Taiyibât [all kinds of Halâl (legal)
foods which Allâh has made legal (meat of slaughtered eatable animals, milk
products, fats, vegetables, fruits, etc.], and do righteous deeds. Verily! I am
Well-Acquainted with what you do. And verily! This your religion
(of Islâmic Monotheism) is one religion, and I am your Lord, so keep your duty
to Me. But they (men) have broken their religion among them into
sects, each group rejoicing in its belief. So leave them in their
error for a time. Do they think that We enlarge them in wealth
and children, We hasten unto them with good things (in this
worldly life so that they will have no share of good things in the Hereafter)?
Nay, but they perceive not. Verily! Those who live in awe for fear
of their Lord; And those who believe in the Ayât (proofs,
evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of their Lord,
And those who join not anyone (in worship) as partners with their Lord;
And those who give that (their charity) which they give (and also do
other good deeds) with their hearts full of fear (whether their alms and
charities, etc., have been accepted or not), because they are sure to return to
their Lord (for reckoning). It is these who race for the good
deeds, and they are foremost in them [e.g. offering the compulsory Salât
(prayers) in their (early) stated, fixed times and so on]. And We
tax not any person except according to his capacity, and with Us is a Record
which speaks the truth, and they will not be wronged. Nay, but
their hearts are covered (blind) from understanding this (the Qur'ân), and they
have other (evil) deeds, besides, which they are doing. Until, when
We grasp those of them who lead a luxurious life with punishment, behold! They
make humble invocation with a loud voice. Invoke not loudly this
day! Certainly, you shall not be helped by Us. Indeed My Verses
used to be recited to you, but you used to turn back on your heels (denying
them, and with hatred to listen to them). In pride (they Quraish
pagans and polytheists of Makkah used to feel proud that they are the dwellers
of Makkah sanctuary Haram), talking evil about it (the Qur'ân) by night."
[The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mu’minûn (no.23), Verse 51-67] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The mission of Jesus </span> </b></div>
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"And in their footsteps, We sent 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary),
confirming the Taurât (Torah) that had come before him, and We gave him the
Injeel (Gospel), in which was guidance and light and confirmation of the Taurât
(Torah) that had come before it, a guidance and an admonition for Al-Muttaqûn
(the pious)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse
46] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The endurance of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad </span> </b></div>
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"And (remember) when Mûsa (Moses) said to his people: "O my
people! Why do you hurt me while you know certainly that I am the Messenger of
Allâh to you? So when they turned away (from the Path of Allâh), Allâh turned
their hearts away (from the Right Path). And Allâh guides not the people who
are Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to Allâh). And (remember)
when 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), said: "O Children of Israel! I
am the Messenger of Allâh unto you confirming the Taurât [(Torah) which came]
before me, and giving glad tidings of a Messenger to come after me, whose name
shall be Ahmed. But when he (Ahmed i.e. Muhammad) came to them with clear
proofs, they said: "This is plain magic." And who does
more wrong than the one who invents a lie against Allâh, while he is being
invited to Islâm? And Allâh guides not the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists,
wrong-doers and disbelievers) folk. They intend to put out the
Light of Allâh (i.e. the religion of Islâm, this Qur'ân, and Prophet Muhammad)
with their mouths. But Allâh will complete His Light even though the
disbelievers hate (it). He it is Who has sent His Messenger
(Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islâmic Monotheism) to make
it victorious over all (other) religions even though the Mushrikûn
(polytheists, pagans, idolaters, and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh and
in His Messenger Muhammed) hate (it). O You who believe! Shall I
guide you to a commerce that will save you from a painful torment.
That you believe in Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad), and that you strive
hard and fight in the Cause of Allâh with your wealth and your lives, that will
be better for you, if you but know! (If you do so) He will forgive
you your sins, and admit you into Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant
dwelling in Gardens of 'Adn Eternity ['Adn (Edn) Paradise], that is indeed
the great success." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter As-Saff (no.61), Verse
5-12] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The upbringing of Maryam (Mary) and the blessing she received due to
the supplication of her mother </span> </b></div>
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"(Remember) when the wife of 'Imrân said: "O my Lord! I have vowed
to You what (the child that) is in my womb to be dedicated for Your services
(free from all worldly work; to serve Your Place of worship), so accept this,
from me. Verily, You are the All-Hearer, the All-Knowing."
Then when she delivered her [child Maryam (Mary)], she said: "O my Lord! I
have delivered a female child," - and Allâh knew better what she
delivered, - "And the male is not like the female, and I have named her
Maryam (Mary), and I seek refuge with You (Allâh) for her and for her offspring
from Shaitan (Satan), the outcast." So her Lord (Allâh)
accepted her with goodly acceptance. He made her grow in a good manner and put
her under the care of Zakariyâ (Zachariya). Every time he entered Al-Mihrâb to
(visit) her , he found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Maryam
(Mary)! From where have you got this?" She said, "This is from
Allâh." Verily, Allâh provides sustenance to whom He wills, without
limit." At that time Zakariyâ (Zachariya) invoked his Lord,
saying: "O my Lord! Grant me from You, a good offspring. You are indeed
the All-Hearer of invocation." Then the angels called him,
while he was standing in prayer in Al-Mihrâb (a praying place or a private
room), (saying): "Allâh gives you glad tidings of Yahya (John), confirming
(believing in) the Word from Allâh [i.e. the creation of 'Iesa (Jesus), the
Word from Allâh ("Be!" - and he was!)], noble, keeping away from sexual
relations with women, a Prophet, from among the righteous."
He said: "O my Lord! How can I have a son when I am very old, and my wife
is barren?" Allâh said: "Thus Allâh does what He wills."
He said: "O my Lord! Make a sign for me." Allâh said:
"Your sign is that you shall not speak to mankind for three days except
with signals. And remember your Lord much (by praising Him again and again),
and glorify (Him) in the afternoon and in the morning." And
(remember) when the angels said: "O Maryam (Mary)! Verily, Allâh has
chosen you, purified you (from polytheism and disbelief), and chosen you above
the women of the 'Alamîn (mankind and jinns) (of her lifetime)."
O Mary! "Submit yourself with obedience to your Lord (Allâh, by
worshipping none but Him Alone) and prostrate yourself, and Irkâ'i (bow down
etc.) along with Ar-Râki'ûn (those who bow down etc.)." This
is a part of the news of the Ghaib (unseen, i.e. the news of the past nations
of which you have no knowledge) which We inspire you with (O Muhammad). You
were not with them (the angels), when they cast lots with their pens as to
which of them should be charged with the care of Maryam (Mary); nor were you
with them when they disputed. (Remember) when the angels said:
"O Maryam (Mary)! Verily, Allâh gives you the glad tidings of a Word
["Be!" - and he was! i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus) the son of Maryam (Mary)]
from Him, his name will be the Messiah 'Iesa (Jesus), the son of Maryam (Mary),
held in honour in this world and in the Hereafter, and will be one of those who
are near to Allâh." "He will speak to the people in the
cradle and in manhood, and he will be one of the righteous."
She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched
me." He said: "So (it will be) for Allâh creates what He wills. When
He has decreed something, He says to it only: "Be!" and it is.
And He (Allâh) will teach him ['Iesa (Jesus)] the Book and Al-Hikmah
(i.e. the Sunnah, the faultless speech of the Prophets, wisdom, etc.), (and)
the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel). And will make him
['Iesa (Jesus)] a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): "I have
come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, as
it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by
Allâh's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring
the dead to life by Allâh's Leave. And I inform you of what you eat, and what
you store in your houses. Surely, therein is a sign for you, if you
believe. And I have come confirming that which was before me of
the Taurât (Torah), and to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden to
you, and I have come to you with a proof from your Lord. So fear Allâh and obey
me. Truly! Allâh is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him (Alone).
This is the Straight Path. Then when 'Iesa (Jesus) came to know of
their disbelief, he said: "Who will be my helpers in Allâh's Cause?"
Al-Hawâriûn (the disciples) said: "We are the helpers of Allâh; we believe
in Allâh, and bear witness that we are Muslims (i.e. we submit to
Allâh)." Our Lord! We believe in what You have sent down, and
we follow the Messenger ['Iesa (Jesus)]; so write us down among those who bear
witness (to the truth i.e. Lâ ilâha ill-Allâh - none has the right to be
worshipped but Allâh). And they (disbelievers) plotted [to kill
'Iesa (Jesus)], and Allâh planned too. And Allâh is the Best of the
planners." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Âl-‘Imrân (no.3), Verse 35-54] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">The creation of Jesus, his birth and the first miracle of defending
his mother, Mary, from slander </span> </b></div>
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"And mention in the Book (the Qur'ân, O Muhammad), the story of) Maryam
(Mary), when she withdrew in seclusion from her family to a place facing
east. She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent
to her Our Ruh [angel Jibrael (Gabriel)], and he appeared before her in the
form of a man in all respects. She said: "Verily! I seek
refuge with the Most Beneficent (Allâh) from you, if you do fear
Allâh." (The angel) said: "I am only a Messenger from
your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a righteous son."
She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I
unchaste?" He said: "So (it will be), your Lord said:
'That is easy for Me (Allâh): And (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind
and a mercy from Us (Allâh), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by
Allâh).'" So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to
a far place (i.e. Bethlehem valley about 4-6 miles from Jerusalem).
And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She
said: "Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out
of sight!" Then [the babe 'Iesa (Jesus) or Jibrael (Gabriel)]
cried unto her from below her, saying: "Grieve not! Your Lord has provided
a water stream under you; "And shake the trunk of date-palm
towards you, it will let fall fresh ripe-dates upon you."
"So eat and drink and be glad, and if you see any human being, say:
'Verily! I have vowed a fast unto the Most Beneficent (Allâh) so I shall not
speak to any human being this day.'" Then she brought him
(the baby) to her people, carrying him. They said: "O Mary! Indeed you
have brought a thing Fariya (an unheard mighty thing). "O
sister (i.e. the like) of Hârûn (Aaron) [not the brother of Mûsa (Moses), but
he was another pious man at the time of Maryam (Mary)]! Your father was not a
man who used to commit adultery, nor your mother was an unchaste woman."
Then she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to one
who is a child in the cradle?" "He ['Iesa (Jesus)] said:
Verily! I am a slave of Allâh, He has given me the Scripture and made me a
Prophet;" "And He has made me blessed wheresoever I be,
and has enjoined on me Salât (prayer), and Zakât (charity), as long as I
live." "And dutiful to my mother, and made me not
arrogant, unblest. "And Salâm (peace) be upon me the day I
was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!"
Such is 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). (it is) a statement of truth,
about which they doubt (or dispute). It befits not (the Majesty
of) Allâh that He should beget a son [this refers to the slander of Christians
against Allâh, by saying that 'Iesa (Jesus) is the son of Allâh]. Glorified
(and Exalted be He above all that they associate with Him). When He decrees a
thing, He only says to it, "Be!" and it is. ['Iesa
(Jesus) said]: "And verily Allâh is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him
(Alone). That is the Straight Path. (Allâh's Religion of Islâmic Monotheism which
He did ordain for all of His Prophets)." [Tafsir At-Tabarî]Then the sects
differed [i.e. the Christians about 'Iesa (Jesus)], so woe unto the
disbelievers [those who gave false witness by saying that 'Iesa (Jesus) is the
son of Allâh] from the meeting of a great Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection,
when they will be thrown in the blazing Fire). How clearly will
they (polytheists and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh) see and hear, the
Day when they will appear before Us! But the Zalimûn (polytheists and
wrong-doers) today are in plain error. And warn them (O Muhammad)
of the Day of grief and regrets, when the case has been decided, while (now)
they are in a state of carelessness, and they believe not. Verily!
We will inherit the earth and whatsoever is thereon. And to Us they all shall
be returned," [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Maryam (no.19), Verse 16-40]
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">A severe admonition to those who changed the Message of Jesus after
his ascension </span> </b></div>
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"And when 'Iesa (Jesus) came with (Our) clear Proofs, he said: "I
have come to you with Al-Hikmah (Prophethood), and in order to make clear to
you some of the (points) in which you differ, therefore fear Allâh and obey me,
"Verily, Allâh! He is my Lord (God) and your Lord (God). So
worship Him (Alone). This is the (only) Straight Path (i.e. Allâh's religion of
true Islâmic Monotheism)." But the sects from among
themselves differed. So woe to those who do wrong (by ascribing things to 'Iesa
(Jesus) that are not true) from the torment of a painful Day (i.e. the Day of
Resurrection)! Do they only wait for the Hour that it shall come
upon them suddenly, while they perceive not? Friends on that Day
will be foes one to another except Al-Muttaqûn (pious - see V.2:2). (It
will be said to the true believers of Islâmic Monotheism): My worshippers! No
fear shall be on you this Day, nor shall you grieve, (You) who
believed in Our Ayât (proofs, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and
were Muslims (i.e. who submit totally to Allâh's Will, and believe in the
Oneness of Allâh - Islâmic Monotheism). Enter Paradise, you and
your wives, in happiness. Trays of gold and cups will be passed
round them, (there will be) therein all that the one's inner-selves could
desire, all that the eyes could delight in, and you will abide therein
forever. This is the Paradise which you have been made to inherit
because of your deeds which you used to do (in the life of the world).
Therein for you will be fruits in plenty, of which you will eat (as you
desire). Verily, the Mujrimûn (criminals, sinners, disbelievers,
etc.) will be in the torment of Hell to abide therein forever.
(The torment) will not be lightened for them, and they will be plunged into
destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair therein. We
wronged them not, but they were the Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers,
etc.). And they will cry: "O Malik (Keeper of Hell)! Let your
Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily you shall abide
forever." Indeed We have brought the truth (Muhammad with the
Qur'ân), to you, but most of you have a hatred for the truth." [The Noble
Qur’ân, Chapter Az-Zukhruf (no.43), Verse 63-78] </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Some of the miracles of Jesus mentioned again </b></span></div>
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"(Remember) when Allâh will say (on the Day of Resurrection). "O
'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Remember My Favour to you and to your
mother when I supported you with RûhulQudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)] so that you
spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and when I taught you
writing, AlHikmah (the power of understanding), the Taurât (Torah) and the
Injeel (Gospel); and when you made out of the clay, as it were, the figure of a
bird, by My Permission, and you breathed into it, and it became a bird by My
Permission, and you healed those born blind, and the lepers by My Permission,
and when you brought forth the dead by My Permission; and when I restrained the
Children of Israel from you (when they resolved to kill you) since you came
unto them with clear proofs, and the disbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing
but evident magic.'"" [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5),
Verse 110] </div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">How Allâh, the Most High, saved Jesus from crucifixion by
ascension </span> </b></div>
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"And they (disbelievers) plotted [to kill 'Iesa (Jesus)], and Allâh
planned too. And Allâh is the Best of the planners. And (remember) when
Allâh said: "O 'Iesa (Jesus)! I will take you and raise you to Myself and
clear you [of the forged statement that 'Iesa (Jesus) is Allâh's son] of those
who disbelieve, and I will make those who follow you (Monotheists, who worship
none but Allâh) superior to those who disbelieve [in the Oneness of Allâh, or
disbelieve in some of His Messengers, e.g. Muhammad, 'Iesa (Jesus), Mûsa
(Moses), etc., or in His Holy Books, e.g. the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel
(Gospel), the Qur'ân] till the Day of Resurrection. Then you will return to Me
and I will judge between you in the matters in which you used to
dispute." "As to those who disbelieve, I will punish
them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will
have no helpers." And as for those who believe (in the
Oneness of Allâh) and do righteous good deeds, Allâh will pay them their reward
in full. And Allâh does not like the Zâlimûn (polytheists and
wrong-doers). This is what We recite to you (O Muhammad) of the
Verses and the Wise Reminder (i.e. the Qur'ân). Verily, the
likeness of 'Iesa (Jesus) before Allâh is the likeness of Adam. He created him
from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" - and he was.
(This is) the truth from your Lord, so be not of those who doubt." [The
Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Âl-‘Imrân (no.3), Verse 54-60] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Iesa
(Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allâh," - but they killed
him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of 'Iesa (Jesus) was put over
another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full
of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but
conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam
(Mary)]: But Allâh raised him ['Iesa (Jesus)] up (with his body
and soul) unto Himself (and he is in the heavens). And Allâh is Ever AllPowerful,
AllWise." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter An-Nisâ’ (no.4), Verse
157-158] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: yellow;">The fallacy of the attribution of divinity to Jesus and his
Mother </span> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Surely, they have disbelieved who say: "Allâh is the Messiah
['Iesa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary)." But the Messiah ['Iesa (Jesus)]
said: "O Children of Israel! Worship Allâh, my Lord and your Lord."
Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allâh, then Allâh has
forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zâlimûn
(polytheists and wrongdoers) there are no helpers. Surely,
disbelievers are those who said: "Allâh is the third of the three (in a
Trinity)." But there is no ilâh (god) (none who has the right to be
worshipped) but One Ilâh (God -Allâh). And if they cease not from what they
say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them.
Will they not repent to Allâh and ask His Forgiveness? For Allâh is OftForgiving,
Most Merciful. The Messiah ['Iesa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary),
was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before
him. His mother [Maryam (Mary)] was a Siddiqah [i.e. she believed in the words
of Allâh and His Books]. They both used to eat food (as any other human being,
while Allâh does not eat). Look how We make the Ayât (proofs, evidences,
verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to them, yet look how they are
deluded away (from the truth)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah
(no.5), Verse 72-75] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jesus is not the son of God but instead is His creation (like
Adam) </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Verily, the likeness of 'Iesa (Jesus) before Allâh is the likeness of
Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" - and he
was. (This is) the truth from your Lord, so be not of those who
doubt. Then whoever disputes with you concerning him ['Iesa
(Jesus)] after (all this) knowledge that has come to you, [i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus)]
being a slave of Allâh, and having no share in Divinity) say: (O Muhammad)
"Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women,
ourselves and yourselves - then we pray and invoke (sincerely) the Curse of Allâh
upon those who lie." Verily! This is the true narrative
[about the story of 'Iesa (Jesus)], and, Lâ ilâha ill-Allâh (none has the right
to be worshipped but Allâh, the One and the Only True God, Who has neither a
wife nor a son). And indeed, Allâh is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
And if they turn away (and do not accept these true proofs and
evidences), then surely, Allâh is All-Aware of those who do mischief.
Say (O Muhammad): "O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians):
Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allâh,
and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take
others as lords besides Allâh. Then, if they turn away, say: "Bear witness
that we are Muslims."" [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Âl-‘Imrân (no.3),
Verse 59-64] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jesus did not teach the people to worship him, but the people
deified him after his ascension </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And (remember) when Allâh will say (on the Day of Resurrection):
"O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: 'Worship me
and my mother as two gods besides Allâh?' " He will say: "Glory be to
You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a
thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my innerself though
I do not know what is in Yours, truly, You, only You, are the AllKnower of all
that is hidden and unseen. "Never did I say to them aught
except what You (Allâh) did command me to say: 'Worship Allâh, my Lord and your
Lord.' And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, but when You
took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all
things. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole
world). "If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if You
forgive them, verily You, only You are the AllMighty, the AllWise."
Allâh will say: "This is a Day on which the truthful will profit
from their truth: theirs are Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise) -
they shall abide therein forever. Allâh is pleased with them and they with Him.
That is the great success (Paradise). To Allâh belongs the
dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is therein, and He is Able
to do all things." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse
116-120] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: yellow;">The lies of the people who tampered with the scriptures after the
ascension of Jesus</span> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"They (Jews, Christians and pagans) say: "Allâh has begotten a son
(children)." Glory be to Him! He is Rich (Free of all wants). His is all
that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. No warrant you have for
this. Do you say against Allâh what you know not. Say:
"Verily, those who invent a lie against Allâh will never be
successful" A brief enjoyment in this world! - and then unto
Us will be their return, then We shall make them taste the severest torment
because they used to disbelieve [in Allâh, belie His Messengers, deny and
challenge His Ayât (proofs, signs, verses, etc.)]." [The Noble Qur’ân,
Chapter Yûnus (no.10), Verse 68-70] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And they (Jews, Christians and pagans) say: Allâh has begotten a
son (children or offspring).<b> </b>Glory be to Him (Exalted be He
above all that they associate with Him). Nay, to Him belongs all that is in the
heavens and on earth, and all surrender with obedience (in worship) to
Him. The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees
a matter, He only says to it : "Be!" - and it is." [The Noble
Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Baqarah (no.2), Verse 116-117] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And they say: "The Most Beneficent (Allâh) has begotten a son (or
children)." Glory to Him! They [those whom they call children of Allâh
i.e. the angels, 'Iesa (Jesus) son of Maryam (Mary), 'Uzair (Ezra), etc.], are
but honoured slaves. They speak not until He has spoken, and they
act on His Command. He knows what is before them, and what is
behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him with whom He is pleased.
And they stand in awe for fear of Him. And if any of them should
say: "Verily, I am an ilâh (a god) besides Him (Allâh)," such a one
We should recompense with Hell. Thus We recompense the Zâlimûn (polytheists and
wrong-doers, etc.)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Anbiyâ (no.21), Verse
26-29] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And they say: "The Most Beneficent (Allâh) has begotten a son (or
offspring or children) [as the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allâh, and
the Christians say that He has begotten a son ['Iesa (Christ)], and the pagan
Arabs say that He has begotten daughters (angels, etc.)]."
Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing. Whereby
the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder, and the mountains
fall in ruins, That they ascribe a son (or offspring or children)
to the Most Beneficent (Allâh). But it is not suitable for (the
Majesty of) the Most Beneficent (Allâh) that He should beget a son (or
offspring or children). There is none in the heavens and the earth
but comes unto the Most Beneficent (Allâh) as a slave. Verily, He
knows each one of them, and has counted them a full counting. And
everyone of them will come to Him alone on the Day of Resurrection (without any
helper, or protector or defender). Verily, those who believe [in
the Oneness of Allâh and in His Messenger (Muhammad)] and work deeds of
righteousness, the Most Beneficent (Allâh) will bestow love for them (in the
hearts of the believers)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Maryam (no.19),
Verse 88-96] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Surely, in disbelief are they who say that Allâh is the Messiah, son
of Maryam (Mary). Say (O Muhammad): "Who then has the least power against
Allâh, if He were to destroy the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), his mother, and
all those who are on the earth together?" And to Allâh belongs the
dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them. He creates
what He wills. And Allâh is Able to do all things." [The Noble Qur’ân,
Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse 17] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allâh, and the
Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allâh. That is a saying from their
mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers of old. Allâh's Curse be on
them, how they are deluded away from the truth! They (Jews and
Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allâh
(by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful according to
their own desires without being ordered by Allâh), and (they also took as their
Lord) Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), while they (Jews and Christians) were
commanded [in the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] to worship none but
One Ilâh (God - Allâh) Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped
but He). Praise and glory be to Him, (far above is He) from having the partners
they associate (with Him)." They (the disbelievers, the Jews
and the Christians) want to extinguish Allâh's Light (with which Muhammad has been
sent - Islâmic Monotheism) with their mouths, but Allâh will not allow except
that His Light should be perfected even though the Kâfirûn (disbelievers) hate
(it). It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance
and the religion of truth (Islâm), to make it superior over all religions even
though the Mushrikûn (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the
Oneness of Allâh) hate (it)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter At-Taubah (no.9),
Verse 30-33] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: yellow;">A severe warning from the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, Allâh,
against the concept of 'Trinity' </span> </b></div>
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"O mankind! Verily, there has come to you the Messenger (Muhammad) with
the truth from your Lord, so believe in him, it is better for you. But if you
disbelieve, then certainly to Allâh belongs all that is in the heavens and the
earth. And Allâh is Ever AllKnowing, AllWise. O people of the
Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor
say of Allâh aught but the truth. The Messiah 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam
(Mary), was (no more than) a Messenger of Allâh and His Word, ("Be!"
- and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam (Mary) and a spirit (Rûh)<b> </b>created
by Him; so believe in Allâh and His Messengers. Say not: "Three
(trinity)!" Cease! (it is) better for you. For Allâh is (the only) One
Ilâh (God), Glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him
belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allâh is
AllSufficient as a Disposer of affairs. The Messiah will never be
proud to reject to be a slave to Allâh, nor the angels who are near (to Allâh).
And whosoever rejects His worship and is proud, then He will gather them all
together unto Himself. So, as for those who believed (in the
Oneness of Allâh - Islâmic Monotheism) and did deeds of righteousness, He will
give their (due) rewards, and more out of His Bounty. But as for those who
refuse His worship and were proud, He will punish them with a painful torment.
And they will not find for themselves besides Allâh any protector or
helper." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter An-Nisâ’ (no.4), Verse 170-173] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: yellow;">The miraculous birth of Prophet John (Yahyah) (the
Baptist)</span> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"(This is) a mention of the mercy of your Lord to His slave Zakariya
(Zachariah). When he called out to his Lord (Allâh) a call in
secret, Saying: "My Lord! Indeed my bones have grown feeble,
and grey hair has spread on my head, And I have never been unblest in my
invocation to You, O my Lord! "And Verily! I fear my
relatives after me, since my wife is barren. So give me from Yourself an
heir, "Who shall inherit me, and inherit (also) the posterity
of Ya'qûb (Jacob) (inheritance of the religious knowledge and Prophethood, not
the wealth, etc.). And make him, my Lord, one with whom You are Well-pleased!"
(Allâh said) "O Zakariya (Zachariah)! Verily, We give you the glad
tidings of a son, His name will be Yahya (John). We have given that name to
none before (him)." He said: "My Lord! How can I have a
son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached the extreme old
age." He said: "So (it will be). Your Lord says; It is
easy for Me. Certainly I have created you before, when you had been
nothing!" [Zakariya (Zachariah)] said: "My Lord! Appoint
for me a sign." He said: "Your sign is that you shall not speak unto
mankind for three nights, though having no bodily defect."
Then he came out to his people from Al-Mihrâb (a praying place or a private
room, etc.), he told them by signs to glorify Allâh's Praises in the morning
and in the afternoon. (It was said to his son): "O Yahya
(John)! Hold fast the Scripture [the Taurât (Torah)]." And We gave him
wisdom while yet a child. ( ) And (made him) sympathetic to
men as a mercy (or a grant) from Us, and pure from sins [i.e. Yahya (John)] and
he was righteous, And dutiful towards his parents, and he was
neither an arrogant nor disobedient (to Allâh or to his parents)." [The
Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Maryam (no.19), Verse 2-14] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The table spread with food from Heaven </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And when I (Allâh) put in the hearts of Al-Hawârîeen (the disciples)
[of 'Iesa (Jesus)] to believe in Me and My Messenger, they said: "We
believe. And bear witness that we are Muslims." (Remember)
when Al-Hawârîûn (the disciples) said: "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam
(Mary)! Can your Lord send down to us a table spread (with food) from
heaven?" 'Iesa (Jesus) said: "Fear Allâh, if you are indeed
believers." They said: "We wish to eat thereof and to be
stronger in Faith, and to know that you have indeed told us the truth and that
we ourselves be its witnesses." ( ) 'Iesa (Jesus), son
of Maryam (Mary), said: "O Allâh, our Lord! Send us from heaven a table
spread (with food) that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us
- a festival and a sign from You; and provide us sustenance, for You are the
Best of sustainers." Allâh said: "I am going to send it
down unto you, but if any of you after that disbelieves, then I will punish him
with a torment such as I have not inflicted on anyone among (all) the 'Alamîn
(mankind and jinns)."" [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Mâ’idah (no.5),
Verse 111-115] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>The invention of Monasticism long after the ascension of Jesus
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And indeed, We sent Nûh (Noah) and Ibrahîm (Abraham), and placed in
their offspring Prophethood and Scripture, and among them there is he who is
guided, but many of them are Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to Allâh).
Then, We sent after them, Our Messengers, and We sent 'Iesa (Jesus)
son of Maryam (Mary), and gave him the Injeel (Gospel). And We ordained in the
hearts of those who followed him, compassion and mercy. But the Monasticism
which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them, but (they
sought it) only to please Allâh therewith, but that they did not observe it
with the right observance. So We gave those among them who believed, their
(due) reward, but many of them are Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to
Allâh). O you who believe [in Mûsa (Moses) (i.e. Jews) and 'Iesa
(Jesus) (i.e. Christians)]! Fear Allâh, and believe too in His Messenger (Muhammad),
He will give you a double portion of His Mercy, and He will give you a light by
which you shall walk (straight), and He will forgive you. And Allâh is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. So that the people of the Scripture
(Jews and Christians) may know that they have no power whatsoever over the
Grace of Allâh, and that (His) Grace is (entirely) in His Hand to bestow it on
whomsoever He wills. And Allâh is the Owner of Great Bounty." [The Noble
Qur’ân, Chapter Al-Hadîd (no.57), Verse 26-29] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And when the son of Maryam (Mary) is quoted as an example [i.e.
'Iesa (Jesus) is worshipped like their idols), behold! Your people cry aloud
(laugh out at the example). And say: "Are our âliha (gods)
better or is he ['Iesa (Jesus)]?" They quoted not the above example except
for argument. Nay! But they are a quarrelsome people. [(See V. 21:97-101) - The
Qur'ân.] He ['Iesa (Jesus)] was not more than a slave. We granted
Our Favour to him, and We made him an example to the Children of Israel (i.e.
his creation without a father)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter Az-Zukhruf
(no.43), Verse 57-59] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: yellow;">Jews, Christians and Islâm </span> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the
believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikûn [polytheists,
pagans etc.], and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims)
those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are
priests and monks, and they are not proud. And when they (who call
themselves Christians) listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger
(Muhammad), you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of the truth they
have recognised. They say: "Our Lord! We believe; so write us down among
the witnesses. "And why should we not believe in Allâh and in
that which has come to us of the truth (Islâmic Monotheism)? And we wish that
our Lord will admit us (in Paradise on the Day of Resurrection) along with the
righteous people (Prophet Muhammad and his Companions)." So
because of what they said, Allâh rewarded them Gardens under which rivers flow
(in Paradise)[i.e. they became true Muslims], they will abide therein forever.
Such is the reward of gooddoers. But those who disbelieved and
belied Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.),
they shall be the dwellers of the (Hell) Fire." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter
Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse 82-86] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Relationship of Islâm and the Qur'ân to the previous
scriptures </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And We have sent down to you (O Muhammad) the Book (this Qur'ân) in
truth, confirming the Scripture that came before it and Mohayminan (trustworthy
in highness and a witness) over it (old Scriptures). So judge between them by
what Allâh has revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging away from
the truth that has come to you. To each among you, We have prescribed a law and
a clear way. If Allâh willed, He would have made you one nation, but that (He)
may test you in what He has given you; so strive as in a race in good deeds.
The return of you (all) is to Allâh; then He will inform you about that in
which you used to differ. And so judge (you O Muhammad) between
them by what Allâh has revealed and follow not their vain desires, but beware
of them lest they turn you (O Muhammad) far away from some of that which Allâh
has sent down to you. And if they turn away, then know that Allâh's Will is to
punish them for some sins of theirs. And truly, most of men are Fâsiqûn
(rebellious and disobedient to Allâh)." [The Noble Qur’ân, Chapter
Al-Mâ’idah (no.5), Verse 48-49] </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Why Prophets were sent to Mankind </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ever since people innovated the dogma of Shirk, (i.e. joining others in
worship along with Allâh), Allâh had been sending Prophets and Messengers to
His devotees in order to invite them to the worship of Allâh and Allâh Alone, to
order them not to ascribe partners unto Him and bring them out of the darkness
of polytheism into the light of Monotheism. All the Prophets preached Tauhîd
(i.e. Pure Monotheism, the Belief in the Oneness of Allâh, the Glorious, the
Elevated). The following Verses from the Noble Qur'ân illustrate this
fact:<br />
"Indeed We sent Noah to his people, and he said: ‘O my people! Worship
Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him. (Lâ ilaha ill Allâh, none has the
right to be worshipped but Allâh). Certainly, I fear for you the torment of a
great Day!’" (V. 7:59). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And to ‘Ad (people, We sent) their brother Hûd. He said: ‘O my people!
Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him. (Lâ ilâha ill Allâh, none
has the right to be worshipped but Allâh). Will you not fear (Allâh)?’"
(V. 7:65). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And to (the people of) Madyan (Midian), (We sent) their brother
Shu’aib. He said: ‘O my people! Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but
Him. (Lâ ilâha ill Allâh, none has the right to be worshipped but Allâh). Verily,
a clear proof (sign) from your Lord has come unto you, so give full measure and
full weight and wrong not men in their things, and do not make mischief on the
earth after it has been set in order, that will be better for you, if you are
believers.’" (V.7:85) </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And to Thamûd (people, We sent) their brother Salih. He said: ‘O my
people! Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him. (Lâ ilâha ill
Allâh, none has the right to be worshipped but Allâh).’" (V. 7:73). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"And verily, We have sent among every Ummah (community, nation) a
Messenger (proclaiming): Worship Allâh (Alone) and avoid (or keep away from)
Tâghût (all false deities etc. i.e. do not worship Tâghûts besides
Allâh)." (V. 16:36). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Every Prophet was sent unto his own nation for their guidance, but the
Message of Prophet Muhammad SAW was general for all mankind and jinns. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Say (O Muhammad SAW ): ‘O mankind: Verily, I am sent to you all as the
Messenger of Allâh.’" (V. 7:158). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
So the aim of sending these Prophets and Messengers to men and jinns was
only that they should worship Allâh Alone, as Allâh; said: "And I (Allâh)
created not the jinns and men except they should worship Me (Alone)" The
Qur’ân (V. 51:56). </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And to worship Allâh means to obey Him and to do all He has ordained, and to
fear Him by abstaining from all He has forbidden. Then those who will obey
Allâh will be rewarded inParadise, and those who will disobey Him, and rebel
against his commands after He has ordered them to believe in Islâm and the
Final Messenger, will be punished in the Hell-Fire. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"O mankind! Verily, there has come to you the Messenger (Muhammad) with
the truth from your Lord, so believe in him, it is better for you. But if you
disbelieve, then certainly to Allâh belongs all that is in the heavens and the
earth. And Allâh is Ever AllKnowing, AllWise." [The Noble Qur’ân,
An-Nisâ’, 170]</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"O you who believe! Be you helpers (in the Cause) of Allâh as said
'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), to AlHawârîûn (the disciples): "Who
are my helpers (in the Cause) of Allâh?" AlHawârîeen (the disciples)
said: "We are Allâh's helpers" (i.e. we will strive in His Cause!).
Then a group of the Children of Israel believed and a group disbelieved. So We
gave power to those who believed against their enemies, and they became the uppermost."
[The Noble Qur’ân, As-Saff, 14]</div>
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"Verily, AllÂh forgives not that partners should be set up with Him in
worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases, and
whoever sets up partners with AllÂh in worship, he has indeed invented a
tremendous sin." [The Noble Qur’ân, An-Nisâ’, 48]</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Descent of Isa<br />
Glad Tiding for Muslims</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prophet Isa (as) son of
Maryam was raised up to heaven when the Jews wanted to crucify him. His
ascension to Heaven and his future return to earth are mentioned in the Qur'an:</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"That they say
(in boast): 'We killed the Messiah Isa, son of Maryam, the Messenger of Allah,
but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of Isa was put
over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are
full of doubts. They have no certain knowledge, they follow nothing but
conjecture. For surely, they killed him not, but Allah raised him up unto
Himself. And Allah is ever All-Powerful, All-Wise. And there is none of the
people of the scripture but must believe in him before his death. And on the
Day of Resurrection, he (Isa) will be a witness against them." (</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Qur'an 4:157-159)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prophet Isa (as) will
return at the end of time, as stated in the Qur'an:</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"And he (Jesus),
shall be a Sign of the Hour"</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Qur'an 43:61)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prophet Isa (as) will
descend at the time when Muslims are experiencing the greatest of hardships. He
will come to their help and make the religion of Allah prevail on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Muslims will recognise
him by the features that the Prophet Muhammad (saws) described him:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">He said:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"I am the closest of
all the people to Isa, son of Maryam, for there is no Prophet between him and
myself. He will come again and when you see him, you will recognise him. He is
of medium height and his complexion is reddish-white, he will be wearing two
garments, and his hair will look wet, although no water had got to it."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Related by Ahmad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Time Prophet Isa (as)
Will Descend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The coming of Isa (as)
will be a glad tiding to the Muslims who stood firm and fought for the cause of
Allah and did not succumb to the temptations of the Dajjal. At that time, the
only two options for humanity will be to embrace Islam or die:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Allah will send the
Messiah, son of Maryam, and he will descend to the white minaret in the East of
Damascus, wearing two garments dyed with saffron, placing his hands on the
wings of two angels. When he lowers his head, beads of perspiration will fall
from it, and when he raises his head, beads like pearls will scatter from it.
Every Kaffir (unbeliever) who smells the fragrance (of his breath) will die,
and his breath will reach as far as he can see. He will search for the Dajjal
until he finds him at the gate of Ludd where he will kill him. Then a group of
people whom Allah has protected will come to Isa (as), son of Maryam, and he
will wipe the traces of hardship from their faces and tell them of their place
in Paradise. At that point, Allah will reveal
to Isa (as): 'I have brought forth some of My servants whom no-one will be able
to fight. Take my servants safely to Al-Tur.'"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Muslim)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">He will descend when the
Muslims gather to fight the Dajjal when they are preparing their ranks for the
Fajr prayer, and their Imam had advanced to lead them. The Imam will then step
back and ask Isa (as) to advance and lead the prayer, but he will refuse.
Prophet Muhammad (saws) informed us:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"....While their
Imam is going forward to lead them in Fajr prayer, Isa (as) will descend. The
Imam will step back to let Isa (as) lead people in prayer but Isa (as) will
place his hands between the mans shoulders and say: 'Go forward and lead the
prayer for the iqamah (call to commence prayer) was made for you, and so the
Imam will lead the people in prayer.'"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Ibn Majah)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The symbolic gesture from
Isa (as) to let the Imam lead the prayer will be to show that he will be
following the true religion, Islam, and will not bring forth any different
rules different from the Shari'ah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">References: Al-Jumuah
Magazine - article written by Dr. Alia Amer<br />
Riyadh-us-Saleheen</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Consequence of Attributing Lineages to a Man who had No
Lineage </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://facebook.com/dbht1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAE8hoKowQYEi01rgJYBf-sF4w1FfBB43vrueulkSSrsCN3hEUNosTnZeUKKzmN-QH-mlm8vxJLPRYPNGZUeKzcScwj7bAoxBACWDJ2jqYFn0HakS-hvCnXbv1WtdumDrgJNX8a9J_Yk/s400/Untitled-1.jpg" width="280" /></a>The uniqueness of Jesus
(Peace be upon him) as the Muslims see it is his miraculous birth, being born
of the Virgin Mary. This was a greater miracle than arising out of Royal
descent. But Mathew and Luke for some reason couldn't just see it that way,
they were hell bent on fulfilling Old Testament prophecies, so what did they
do; they manufactured one for him. The story begins at the annunciation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Luke 1:34-35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then said Mary to the
angel,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"How shall this be,
since I don't know any men?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">And the angel said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"The Holy Spirit shall
come on you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">and the potency of the
Highest shall cover you..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jesus's followers claimed
that he was GOD's illegitimate son, conceived out of wedlock and without a
biological father. But, regardless, they say Jesus's mother's husband, Joseph,
adopted him, so he had a real father after that.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">BLUNDER: GUESS WHO ENTERS
INTO THE DIVINE LINEAGE OF JESUS</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The book of Genesis records
in chapter 38 a story in which Judas (the father of the Jewish race) commits
incest. He is tricked into sleeping with a harlot; who turns out to be his
daughter-in-law. And word went around that she had a child by whoredom. Tamar,
the prostitute was to give birth to twins whom would be named Pharez and Zarah.
This clear act of illegitimacy and incest conception was in blatant violation
of the Law. So when we read at Mathew 1:3 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">And Judas begat Phares and
Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A prostitute and the
product of incest becomes honoured in the lineage of Jesus. Despite the many
injunctions in Bible ostracising sinners from the house of God for generations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A bastard shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not
enter into the<br />
congregation of the LORD.<br />
Deuteronomy 23:2 </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">ANOTHER BLUNDER, THE
MESSIAH IS GIVEN A CURSED LINEAGE</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But, St. Matthew felt that
if the Messiah was to come, he had to be specifically descended through the
bloodlines of kings David, Solomon, and Asa (see below), just to prove to the
Jews that he was the specific Messiah mentioned in several prophecies. Being so
eager to present Jesus as fulfilling this requirement, St. Matthew presents his
readers with a lineage for Jesus going through his adopted father, Joseph, and
through kings Asa and Solomon, all the way back to king David (Matt 1:1).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But, this presents him with
a Trilemma, a Trinity of problems:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">According to early
Christian-Paulian doctrine regarding his birth to a virgin mother, Jesus is not
really related to Joseph's (and therefore king David's) lineage, even todays
Bible we read in Luke 3:23 "As was supposed".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The lineage Matthew
presents conflicts flatly with the lineage that St. Luke came up with decades
later (Luke 3:23). Luke's version has many more generations than Matthew's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In trying to adopt Jesus
into David's lineage (Matt 1:12), Matthew presents a family line that goes
straight through the Cursed Branch of kings Jehoiakim and his son, Jeconiah
(who is also known as Coniah/Jehoiachin). Matthew either intentionally or
unintentionally omits king Jehoiakim in the list, which may confuse some
Christians. But Jehoiakim (not Jeconiah) is undeniably the son of Josiah, and
Jeconiah is the son of Jehoiakim.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jehoiachin/Jeconiah/Coniah
are all names for the same king, son of Jehoiakim, who was carried away into
captivity/exile in Babylon, and succeeded by his uncle, king Zedekiah (who was
the brother of Jehoiakim). See</span><br />
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1st Chronicles 3:15-19,<br />
2nd Kings 24:6-17,<br />
Esther 2:6,<br />
Jer 22:24-30, 24:1, 27:20, 37:1.<br />
Jeconiah is the father of Shealtiel, and the grandfather of Zerubbabel, etc.<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In Jeremiah 22, both kings
Jehoiakim and Jeconiah are damned and their descendents forbidden to succeed on
the throne of David. (see also Isaiah 14:18 for references to the Abominable
Branch)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jeremiah 22:24,28-30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"As I live, saith the
LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right
hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;"<br />
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no
pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his<br />
seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?<br />
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.<br />
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper
in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of
David, and ruling any more in Judah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In modern translations of
the Bible such as the NIV, we read<br />
"Surely as I live," says GOD, "You, Jeconiah, the son of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, even if you were a signet ring upon my right hand, I
would cast you off!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Is this man Jeconiah a
broken, abominable idol, an object for which no one cares?...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Write this man off as if
childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days, because no one descended
from him shall find success in sitting in the Kingship of David or ruling any
more in Judah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Branch of Jeconiah is
damned forever. Jeconiah was carried away into exile and died there. His
grandson, Zerub'babel, returned, but, true to the curse, never returned to the
throne. And, none from their lineage has ever since.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In a confused attempt to
graft Jesus into a messianic line, the overeager Matthew ended up grafting
Jesus into the cursed lineage branch. Ironically, for all their discrepancies,
this is one of the few points at which Matthew's version of the genealogy and
Luke's actually agree. Both gospel tales list Jesus's lineage as running
through Zerub'babel and Sheal'tiel, two of the cursed descendents of Jeconiah.
Also see Isaiah 14:18 for more Abominable Branch references.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Suspiciously, Matthew has
omitted the name of King Jehoiakim in his list. He left Jeconiah in, though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Genealogy: Matthew and
Luke Contradict</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The fact of Jeconiah being
in Jesus's adopted genealogy has caused an enormous headache for
Christian-Paulian theologians over the past centuries, and still does till this
day. Although the average person never learns of this because they rarely address
this topic. This and the fact that Luke and Matthew contradict one another in
the names of Joseph's ancestors has caused some frantic apologisers, in
desperation, to claim that Luke's version of the lineage was "really"
Mary's side of the family despite the fact that Luke states flatly that it is
Joseph's, and that there is no evidence to support their suggestion (Luke
3:23):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">And Jesus himself began to
be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which
was the son of Heli,<br />
There is no support for the notion that it is Mary's line. It is merely wishful
thinking. But, deceptively, some bibles add a bit of misleading editorial
commentary at the top of Luke 3:23 saying the genealogy is the "line of
Mary". That's quite an assertion to make considering it has no scriptural
support. The casual reader may accept this charade as if it's really part of
the Bible, and moves on without question.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Still, pretending that the
lineage that Luke gives is Mary's makes no difference. As we have already
pointed out, it is part of the Cursed Branch of Jeconiah (remember, it runs
through Jeconiah's son and grandson, Shealtiel and Zerubbabel), and thus makes
Jesus an invalid candidate for being the messiah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Others have tried to
explain the contradictions between Luke's version of the line and Matthew's by
speculating that perhaps the two men listed as Jesus' paternal grandfathers
might have been brothers, and that a levirate marriage (a custom of having
engaging in sexual intercourse with your dead brother's wife when he dies
childless; the child was then considered to be the legal offspring of the dead
man) may have been what gave us Joseph, the supposed father of Jesus. There is
no biblical support for this speculation in this case, and this combined with
the fact that it cuts Jesus off from the lineage from kings Solomon and Asa,
has led most Christian theologians to abandon it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But, there are other
problems with the lineage Luke gives Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Messiah's Throne Line:
David, Solomon, Asa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Besides contradicting
Matthew's version, and besides running through the Cursed Branch, the lineage
that St. Luke gives for Jesus is problematic because it does not go through
kings Solomon and Asa. The messiah's lineage must run through these kings too,
as we see in GOD's throne promise:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">For your servant David's
sake, turn not away the face of your messiah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Lord has sworn in truth
to David, and he will not change his mind: "I will set the offspring of
your body upon your throne.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"If your descendents
keep my covenant and my law that I shall teach them, their descendents shall
also sit upon your throne forever".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Psalms 132:10-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here, GOD is granting the
same promise he made to David to David's descendents. The promise states that
if David's descendents follow GOD, then the descendents of their line will have
the right to David's throne. King Asa qualified because he was wholly true to
GOD.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">King Asa: A Man after King
David's Heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">And Asa did that which was
right in the eyes of the LORD, just as did David his father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Although the high places
were not removed, Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">1st Kings 15:11-14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">King Solomon wasn't as
good, but for the sake of the promise GOD had made to David, his descendents
were assured too:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">And when your days are done,
and you lie with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who
shall come directly from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">He shall build a house for
my name, and I will establish the throne of HIS kingdom FOREVER.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">I will be his father, and
he shall be my son. WHEN HE SINS, I will spank him with the whips of men, and
with the wounds of the children of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But I shall not withdraw my
favour from him, in the way I took it from Saul, whom I cut off from you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Therefore your house and
your kingdom shall be established forever your throne shall be established
forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">2nd Samuel 7:12-16</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Here, "offspring"
is the Hebrew word, ZERA', which is always used in a physical sense, and often
has a collective sense. However, the appended qualifier, "zaraka ... aser
yese mimiika", or "who shall come directly from your own body",
specifies that the offspring is one of the immediate sons of David (this is the
same use of the word as in Genesis 15:4, and 2nd Samuel 16:11). And we see
confirmation of this in 1 Chron 22:9-10. And, as it turns out, this son whose
kingdom shall be eternal is Solomon:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Solomon Builds the House of
GOD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Who is this house-building
son, this immediate son of David? See 1st Chronicles 17:11 and 22:9-10, which
both say this son will be David's own son, Solomon:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Behold, a son shall be born
to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">who shall be a man of
peace,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">for I will give him peace
from all his enemies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">for his name shall be
Solomon...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">He shall build the HOUSE
for my name,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">and he shall be my son, and
I will be his father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">and I WILL establish the
throne of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">HIS kingdom over Israel
FOREVER.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">1 Chron 22:9-10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In this instance, GOD
unconditionally declares that Solomon's throne will be established forever. It
is a statement of fact. Later, he also makes similar promises as a reward for
Solomon's good behaviour. However, he has already promised David that when
Solomon (his house-building, directly-from-your-body son) sins, GOD will punish
him but not revoke his right to the Throne line (2nd Sam 7:12, above), and Solomon's
Throne will indeed be established forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Whatever may be said of
Solomon (he did not live up to the role model of his father, David), king Asa's
throne lineage is undeniably eternal too, just as David's is. So, simply said,
the lineage of the messiah must go through kings David, Solomon, and Asa,
undeniably. The genealogy that Luke gives in his tale does not. And, both his
version and Matthew's list Jesus as being part of the Cursed Branch of
Jeconiah. All of this presents serious problems for those wishing to attach
Jesus to the royal Davidic Throne. It would have been better for them to have
left the lineages out of the Gospels. Not because it would hide the
discrepancies and confusion. But because the lineage is irrelevant to Jesus; as
he was born miraculously. And attempting to foster a lineage upon him has only
created more problems that it solved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Some Thoughts on the 'Proofs' of the Alleged Divinity of
Jesus</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Based on a lecture by Dr.
Gary Miller</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">One of the crucial issues
which separates Islam and Christianity is their beliefs concerning the nature
of Jesus - peace be upon him. The majority of Christians believe that Jesus is
"Divine", i.e. they believe him to be God incarnate. Muslims, on the
other hand, beleive that Jesus was only a great Prophet of God and a faultless
human being.</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Approach to a
Muslim--Christian Dialogue</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The doctrine of the
Trinity says that the three distinct co-equals are altogether God -- or that
God is made up of three co-equal "persons". In particular, Jesus is
said to be "God the Son", or the "Son of God". In a
Muslim-Christian dialogue, inevitably the Muslim will question the details
regarding this theology. The Christian, on the other hand, will usually form a
common explanation by complaining that Muslims simply do not understand the
Trinity, and that what the Muslim accuses the Christians of is one thing which
Christians don't really believe. In short Muslims do not understand how the
Christians understood the Trinity. The Muslim seeks to find clarifications of
the teachings of this doctrine by asking for explanations as to how that would
be so, because the term Son of God cannot have a literal interpretation:
Sonship and divine nature would be two attributes which are incomparable,
because sonship describes someone who receives life while divine nature
describes someone who receives life from no one. To be a son is to be less than
divine and to be divine is to be no one's son. Eventually the Christians would
seek refuge in the response of "these are things which we cannot
understand."</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Verification and
Understanding</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Christians seem to be
confusing two concepts -- the concept of verification and the concept of
understanding. This can be illustrated in the example of hydrogen combining
with oxygen to make water. We can verify this statement in a laboratory to see
whether this statement is a statement of fact. But after verification, that
does not mean what we have understood the nature of atoms. Verification and
understanding are two different concepts. Thus, what Muslims should do is to
re-direct the discussions because the first issue is more basic than simply
resolving all the difficult points of Trinitarian doctrines. It is <b>not</b>
the explanation of how to understand the concept of the Trinitarian doctrine
that we seek, but rather, to seek verifications of their belief, that is, <b>why</b>
in the first place must we believe that Jesus is divine (not how but why).</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Trinity -- A Church
Doctrine</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">If Muslims pursue this
approach, ultimately many Christians will usually say that "the Church
says so", that is, it is the Church's doctrine. Thus many Christians'
arguments stop short of questioning the Church's authority. They will not
challenge it to find out the basis for their claim or their teaching. Although
many Christians in fact concede that this is the case on the subject of
Trinitarian doctrine, there are also others who insist that Jesus did talk
about the Trinity himself.</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Let them produce
proof"</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">We have been told in the
Qur'an to tell the Christians "Let them produce proof". Thus we
demand them to provide documentation that Jesus himself claimed unqualified
divinity for himself, and that he said in so many words: "I am God".
The Muslims are advised by another Qur'anic verse to tell the Christians:
"Say: O people of the Book you have no ground to stand upon unless you
stand fast by the Law, the Gospel and all the Revelation that has come to you
from your Lord." This demand is reasonable, for Muslims are also told in
another verse that Jesus never claimed to be God. Therefore if the Christians
were to look into their own scripture they would not be able to find any saying
of Jesus, that should him clearly claiming to be equal with God.</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Explicit and implicit
statements</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">From the Biblical record,
the sayings accredited to Jesus are very small because after allowing for
duplications in the Four Gospels' account of his -life, these sayings could be
reprinted in two columns of a typical newspaper. And none of these texts is a
clear claim to divinity, because nowhere does he explicitly claim to be God.
All the quotations are implicit. The difference is, an explicit statement is
one which requires no explanation. The meaning is right on the surface of the
word. For example, when your gas gauge in your car shows empty, you do not need
to ask your passenger to interpret it for you. it is very clear. An implicit
statement is a statement where the meaning is carried just beneath the surface
of the word. It requires some thought before we determine what was meant by the
words. And all quotations that are cited by Christians in order to put in the
mouth of Jesus the claim of deity are implicit -- which means interpretation is
required. Thus what happens is, when we are told what Jesus said, we are then
told what he meant. In other words, they interpret the meaning for us.</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Christians' claim</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Christians' claim of
Jesus to be God through his Virgin birth (The Immaculate Conception) is cited
as one case of insufficient evidence. But, the Bible also tells us about the
Creation of Adam -- i.e. without father or mother; and the account of the
miracle associated with the prophet Elisha. Also, the case of Melchizekdek can
be cited: "without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither
beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God" - <b>Hebrews
7:3</b>. For these men, no Christian will say he was divine. Yet each has the
qualifications in common with Jesus. Another claim is that Jesus was God
because the Hebrew Scripture predicted his coming before he was born. Yet the
Christians seem to betray a selective or forgetful recall of the Scriptures
because in places where they predict the coming of John the Baptist they quote
prophecies from the Book of Malachi.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Son of Man, Son of God,
Messiah, Savior</span></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Another argument of
Christians that Jesus claimed to be God is that Jesus constantly used the
terms, "Son of God", "Son of Man" and "Messiah"
and "Savior". Since he uses these terms, they argued, therefore he
was claiming to be God. These terms were also applied to other individuals as
well, in the Bible. For example, Ezekiel was addressed as "Son of
Man". Jesus himself speaks of the peace makers as "sons of God".
It is interesting to note that even though Jesus is called the "Son of
God" in the Bible, he is never called "God the Son", which is
what the Christians have made him into due to their Trinitarian theology. Even
Cyrus the Persian is called "Messiah", or "the anointed",
in Isaiah Chapter 45. This verse has been translated in a misleading way. The
meaning of the Hebrew word "Messiah" is "God's anointed".
Here, when it refers to Cyrus, they translated the Hebrew word "Messiah"
with "God's anointed". But in places where- the Bible is talking
about Jesus, when the term "Messiah" appears, instead of translating
it as "anointed", they simply transliterate it (i.e. they write the
Hebrew words with the Roman Alphabet without translating it) so that it reads
"Messiah". Interestingly this word "Messiah" is in the
Greek equivalent written as "Christ". Thus there seems to be a
conspiracy to give us the impression that there is only one Messiah, one Christ
and no other. As for the term "Savior", the word is clearly applied
to other individuals besides Jesus, for example the Book of II Kings, Chapter
13, Verse 5, says: "And the Lord gave Israel
a Savior, so they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children
of Israel
dwelt in their tents as beforetime."</span></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"I and My Father
are One"</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Our Beloved ISA (Jesus), the prophet of ALLAH</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Introduction</b></span><br />
<a href="http://facebook.com/dbht1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdIlscregfIvRihwHWPxbtDRouIJknCkjmsnPIDPfA-LvPyKn2DxNSmqG2zwLAyi4_fFO-9O8cDobVf-jgseHefsUL7lszihyb8lasHtt6tLfYOZqqjHGoiq0kvBMr0mSwkHujh3ncgA/s320/i+love+isa.jpg" width="212" /></a>Allah sent many messengers to the humans as a mercy from Him. Allah sent them all to teach the people what is the correct and acceptable worship of Allah--their Creator and the Creator of everything. All the prophets of Allah, the first of whom was Adam and the last of whom is Muhammad, came with one Religion--Islam, one creed--the belief in the Oneness of Allah. They all taught that Allah is attributed with all the perfect attributes and that He does not resemble any of His creations. They taught what Allah ordered us to perform with and refrain from in this life. They taught there is the Judgment Day in which each one of us will be judged as to whether or not we fulfilled our obligations in this life. None of them taught their people what contradicts the belief in the Oneness of Allah. Each one of them ordered their followers to believe in the rest of the prophets. Imam al-Bukhariyy related that Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, said: <br />
<br />
<<The prophets are like brothers from the same father with different mothers. Their Religion is one although their Shari^ah (rules of the Religion) differed. I am the most deserving of Prophet ^Isa. There was no other prophet between us.>> <br />
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Allah revealed Prophet ^Isa (Jesus) as the messenger before Prophet Muhammad. He was one of the five best messengers of Allah, called Ulul-^Azm, those with the highest status, who were the most patient. He was ^Isa, the son of Maryam, the daughter of ^Imran, from the sons of Israel. Prophet ^Isa, as all the prophets, was truthful in what he conveyed from Allah, and although today we follow the Shari^ah of Prophet Muhammad, Muslims respect, love, and believe in ^Isa and in his prophethood. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>MARYAM, THE MOTHER OF ^ISA</b></span><br />
Maryam (Mary), the mother of ^Isa, was a pious Muslim woman from the offspring of Israel during the time of Prophet Zakariyya. Prophet Zakariyya was a prophet of Allah revealed to convey to the people to follow the Shari^ah revealed to Prophet Musa. In the Qur'an there is a chapter named Maryam referring to Maryam <br />
(Mary), the mother of ^Isa. This chapter talks about Maryam: her birth, her story, and the birth of Prophet ^Isa, and other things. <br />
<br />
Maryam's mother conceived and delivered Maryam when she was an old woman, at an age when women usually can no longer have babies. One day Maryam's mother saw a bird feeding its young and she longed for a baby herself. She made a supplication to Allah to bless her with a child and vowed that she would make him a servant for the Holy House in Jerusalem, dedicated for worship, because she thought the child would be male. Allah answered her supplication and Maryam's mother conceived and delivered a baby girl. She named her "Maryam" and asked Allah to protect her and her offspring from evil. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Since Maryam's father had died, Prophet Zakariyya (who was the husband of Maryam's sister) became Maryam's guardian. From him, Maryam learned the Religion. She grew up as a righteous, pure, and pious Muslim woman worshipping Allah and endeavoring greatly in performing obedience to Him. Before she turned <br />
fourteen (14) years old, Maryam was a waliyyah (a very pious woman with a special status). She became the best of the women in the world. It is mentioned in the Qur'an that the angels said Allah chose Maryam and preferred her to the other women of the world. (Al ^Imran, 42-43). <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE BIRTH OF ^ISA</b></span><br />
Ibn Jarir and others narrated that one day Maryam ran out of water. She asked her cousin, Yusuf, the son of Ya^qub to go with her to get some. He declined, saying he had his sufficiency for that day, so Maryam went to fetch water alone. There, she found Jibril, whom Allah had sent to her in the shape of a man. Thinking he was a human who might harm her, she asked refuge with Allah from him. Jibril told her, "I am the Messenger of your Lord to you. I was sent to give you a pious child who is pure from sins." Maryam told him, "How would I have a son? I have no husband, and I am not an adulterer or a fornicator." Jibril told her, "Creating a son without a father is an easy matter to Allah. Allah will make him a sign for the people and an indication of the Power of Allah. He will send him as a mercy from Him and an endowment to the one who follows him and believes in him. Creating him is a matter Allah willed and destined, so it will not be blocked or changed." <br />
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Jibril blew the soul of ^Isa into Maryam and ^Isa's soul entered into her womb. Maryam became pregnant with ^Isa, peace be upon him. There is a difference of opinion as to the term of her pregnancy, some said nine months, some said eight, and some said other than that. However, when the signs of pregnancy became apparent on her, her cousin, Yusuf the Carpenter, was disturbed and did not know how to interpret that matter. If he wanted to accuse her he would remember how pious she was. If he wanted to declare her innocence, he would see the signs of pregnancy. So he decided to open the subject with her. He asked her, "Tell me, would plants grow without seeds? Would trees grow without rainfall? Would there be a child without a male?" To all these questions Maryam said "Yes." Then she asked him, "Did you not know Allah made the <a href="http://facebook.com/alquranscience" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYj6ZjiBAz1iWqPmx37rHCHggOn7wrFSePB9SB-xUoqxJQQrAcvY-KH_jV0onoyE28HEVHEi-z9R-bFsaGtehVyrce-50d7vtqN3i1oXGmcqiWtLFt7J0MJzytJTuo1H7IEVPxb9H8oJE/s400/Love-Jesus.jpg" width="266" /></a>plants emerge without seeds the day He created them? Did you not know Allah created the trees the first time without rain? Did you not know Allah created Adam and Hawwa' (Eve) without a father or a mother?" Yusuf knew all these things and when she responded in this way, he felt assured of her innocence and that this was something special given to her by Allah. <br />
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When the signs of her pregnancy became apparent, Maryam went away from her people. The pangs of birth led her to the trunk of a dead palm tree. Out of her shyness from the people, and fearing they would accuse her of having done something ugly, she wished she was dead and not a trace of her could be found. Jibril called to her, comforting her. He told her Allah made a small river run under her from which she could drink, and should she shake the trunk of the dead palm tree next to her, it would turn green and moist dates would fall down from which she could eat and be nourished. Jibril told her when she faces her people with her son to tell anyone who questions her about him that she had made a vow not to talk to any human for that day. That day, Maryam gave birth to her son, ^Isa, peace be upon him. Forty (40) days later she carried him back to her people. They accused her of having fornicated. In response, Maryam pointed to her son, meaning to tell them to talk to him. They were angered at this and thought she was mocking them by asking them to speak with a 40-day old baby lying in a small cradle. At this, Allah made ^Isa speak. He said: <br />
verseses 30-33 of Surat Maryam which mean: [I am a slave of Allah. He will reveal the Book to me and make me a prophet. He blessed me wherever I am. In the rules revealed to me there will be a special attention given to Prayers and Zakat. Allah predestined that I will be kind to my mother and not a tyrant with a bad ending. <br />
Peace was on me the day I was born. Peace will be on me on the day I will die and on the day I am raised alive again.] <br />
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When Maryam's people heard that, they refrained from harming her or Prophet Zakariyya, about whom they had made ugly accusations. After Baby ^Isa spoke these words, he did not speak again until he became at an age when children normally begin to speak. ^Isa's speaking from the cradle was a preparation and a sign of his <br />
creed and coming prophethood, when he would call the people to believe in Allah, the One Who does not have a partner and to believe in the message of ^Isa--that he was the slave and messenger of Allah. The first words he spoke were, "I am a slave of Allah." <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>EARLY LIFE OF PROPHET ^ISA</b></span><br />
Lady Maryam took ^Isa to Egypt where they stayed for a period of time. Then they returned to the countries of ash-Sham--to a city known as an-Nasirah. ^Isa, peace be upon him, studied the Torah in the schools and memorized it. He spoke Syriac, the language of the people of Palestine at that time, and the language in which the Heavenly Book, called the Injil, was revealed to him. He was a pious worshipper of Allah, following the rules of the Torah revealed to Prophet Musa. </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE REVELATION OF PROPHETHOOD</b></span></div>
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Allah sent the Revelation of Prophethood to ^Isa when he was thirty years old. Allah revealed to him new laws which abrogated some of the laws revealed to Prophet Musa. Prophet ^Isa conveyed the revelation to the people and called them to believe in his message. <br />
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Prophet ^Isa, like all the prophets of Allah, performed miracles. Allah sent all the prophets with miracles as a proof to their prophethood, so the people would witness, know about them, and believe in their prophethood. Many of Prophet ^Isa's miracles were in curing illnesses, to be a stronger proof of his truthfulness, since the people at his time were famous for being knowledgeable in the field of medicine. Prophet ^Isa cured those with seemingly incurable illnesses. Prophet ^Isa cured a man inflicted with leprosy. He put his honorable hand on the face of a man who was born blind and cured his sight. Once Prophet ^Isa supplicated to Allah to bring back to life one person who had died and was being carried to the burial place, and Allah brought this <br />
person back to life. <br />
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Prophet ^Isa had other kinds of miracles also. He formed the shape of bats from clay and then they would fly away a distance. One of the miracles of ^Isa is mentioned in the Qur'an in Surat al-Ma'idah, Verses 112-114, which tells about one time when Prophet ^Isa and the people who were with him reached to a place where there was not enough food for all the people with him. The students of ^Isa asked him to supplicate Allah for food which would come down on them from the sky. ^Isa made supplication to Allah and the angels brought down the food on a piece of material before the eyes of the people. Hundreds and hundreds of people ate from that food, and there was no sign the food had diminished in quantity. This miracle increased the belief of the believers. The blasphemers however, claimed ^Isa had performer sorcery on their eyes. <br />
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After his revelation, Prophet ^Isa lived on earth for about three years. He used to travel from place to place calling people to the proper worship of Allah. He was so detached from the worldly matters that he did not worry that he did not have a house to return to at night. He used to sleep wherever the night would fall on him, whether he was in an open land or in a sheltered place. He wore clothing made out of unwoven wool. He ate from the raw plants of the earth, without desiring to cook them. He did not marry or have children. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE INJIL</b></span><br />
^Isa received a Heavenly Book, the Injil, which contained the Shari^ah, (rules of the Religion) revealed to him. In it was the prohibition of associating partners with Allah. In it was the prohibition to consume the usurious gain (riba), pig meat, blood, and the meat of animals not slaughtered properly. It contained the order to perform the Prayer (with bowing and prostration) twice a day. It had the order to fast (but other than the month of Ramadan), and the order to perform taharah. Prophet ^Isa came with a Shari^ah that contained making permissible some of the things which had been forbidden upon the children of Israel in the Torah. Although what is called "The Bible" today contains some true stories of Prophet ^Isa, it does not contain the true Injil which was revealed to him. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>THE ASCENSION OF PROPHET ^ISA</b></span><br />
When Prophet ^Isa was 33 years old, the blasphemers among the offspring of Israel plotted to kill him, but Allah saved him from their harm. Ibn Abi Hatim and an-Nasa'iyy narrated from the route of Ibn ^Abbas that he said: <br />
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Prophet ^Isa was in session with twelve of his elite companions in a house. He told them that among them would be who would blaspheme in the future. Then he asked them, "Who among you would want to be made to look like me, be killed in my place, and be my companion in Paradise." The youngest among them stood up and said, "Me." Prophet ^Isa told him to sit, then repeated his same question. Again, the same young man said, "Me." Again, Prophet ^Isa told him to sit, then again asked the same question. After the same young man volunteered for the third time, Prophet ^Isa received the Revelation that this young man would be the one who would be made to look like him and killed instead of him. Prophet ^Isa was raised to the sky from an opening in the ceiling of the house. When the Jews came after Prophet ^Isa, they saw that young man, whom Allah made to look like ^Isa. They took him, thinking he was Prophet ^Isa, and crucified him.<br />
It should be noted here there are two widespread false stories about this matter. In one, it is claimed that one of ^Isa's students was paid a great sum of money to lead those Jews to ^Isa however Allah made him look like ^Isa, so they though he was ^Isa and they crucified him. In another, it is said that the person killed in place of ^Isa was the leader of the Jews. Both of these stories are false. <br />
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After Prophet ^Isa was raised to the sky, his nation lived following his guidance, teaching, and methodology for two hundred (200) years. However, the nation of Prophet ^Isa did not remain steadfast to Islam. Three hundred (300) years after Prophet ^Isa was raised to the sky, those who were following the ones who had <br />
perverted the teachings of Prophet ^Isa became very numerous, and those who were truly following the Religion of Islam were few and weak. After some five hundred (500) years, none of the believing Muslims of ^Isa's nation were left. When Prophet Muhammad was revealed, he was the only Muslim worshipping only Allah from among the people of the earth. <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>PROPHET ^ISA'S DESCENT TO EARTH</b></span><br />
Prophet ^Isa, peace be upon him, is still alive--in the second sky--worshipping Allah. He will descend to earth before the Day of Judgment and his descent will be one of the great signs of the nearing of that Day. Prophet Muhammad informed us ^Isa will descend to earth at a place on the eastern side of Damascus, with his hands on the wings of two angels. He will meet a group of Muslims getting ready to perform the Prayer with the Mahdiyy as their Imam. The Mahdiyy will ask Prophet ^Isa to lead them in that prayer, however, ^Isa will ask the Mahdiyy to stand imam for them--as a sign that Prophet ^Isa will rule with the rules revealed to Prophet Muhammad. After this one time, ^Isa will lead the people in prayers because he has a higher status than <br />
the Mahdiyy. <br />
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After he descends, Prophet ^Isa will rule the earth with the Shari^ah of Prophet Muhammad, the Shari^ah Muslims are ordered to follow until the Judgment Day. He will break the cross, kill the pig, and abolish the jizyah (compulsory payment by the People of the Book to the Muslim state), because in the rules of Prophet <br />
Muhammad the jizyah is only applicable until the descent of ^Isa. He will kill the Dajjal, an ugly, evil blasphemer who claims himself as God, and who misleads many people to blaspheme. Prophet ^Isa will perform Hajj and travel to visit the grave of the Prophet to salute him, and to greet him by saying, "As-salamu ^alaykum ya rasul Allah", as narrated by Abu Dawud at-Tayalisiyy and others. <br />
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During his time, the people of Ya'juj and Ma'juj will appear and cause great destruction to the earth and devastation to the Muslims. Prophet ^Isa will take the believers to Mount at-Tur to supplicate Allah there to relieve them from these people. Allah will answer their du^a' and destroy all the people of Ya'juj and Ma'juj. <br />
After that, Prophet ^Isa will rule the Muslims and there will be a time when peace, comfort, and safety will prevail. Prophet ^Isa will live for forty (40) years on earth after he descends. He will marry and have children. Then, he will die and be buried. ^Adullah Ibn Salam said, "It is written in the original Torah that Prophet ^Isa will be buried next to Prophet Muhammad" (in the chamber of Lady ^A'ishah.) <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>CONCLUSION</b></span><br />
Prophet ^Isa was a messenger of Allah revealed to convey to the people the religion of Islam and to call them to worship Allah, their Creator. Muslims believe in his prophethood and in his truthfulness in conveying that message. Prophet ^Isa is alive now, living in the second heaven, worshipping Allah. He will return to earth before the Day of Judgment and will rule the Muslims with the Shari^ah of Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon this respected, honored and beloved Messenger of Allah. <br />
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Praise be to Allah, and Allah knows best. <br />
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Verse #33 of Surat Maryam:: <br />
[Peace was on me the day I was born. Peace will be on me on the day I will die and on the day I am raised alive again.]</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Jesus, a Muslim, was Neither Killed, nor Crucified. </b></span><br />
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We have seen that Jesus (pbuh) greeted his disciples like a Muslim, by saying: “Peace be unto you”, when he appeared before them after his so-called ‘resurrection’ (John 20:19). Muslims use the same words to greet, (but in Arabic): Assalaamu Alaikum. <br />
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We have also seen that the utterances of Jesus have been supportive of and predicting about the rise of Muhammad (pbuh), and through him the belief Islam and the believing nation of Muslims, to which his followers are required to join. <br />
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In John 16: 12 & 13, Jesus says: <br />
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“I have yet many things to say unto you, <br />
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but you cannot bear them now. <br />
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Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, <br />
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He will guide you into all truth; ” <br />
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In an , we have seen that this prophecy by Prophet Jesus (pbuh) refers to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), whose arrival his followers were directed to await. The many things that Jesus would have liked to tell his followers have not been told to them, not because Jesus did not know them, but only because his followers were not ready to bear them at that time: “..... but you cannot bear them now.” <br />
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When Jesus (pbuh) states “you cannot bear them now”, it only refers to his followers and does not include himself, because he did not say: “WE cannot bear them now”. <br />
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Since Jesus didn't count himself among them in this matter, it means he was ready to bear them: the guidance that the expected prophet will bring. He was aware of them and he was ready to bear them. But did he follow in action what he knew and was ready for? Yes. He did much of what a Muslim would do and is expected to do. In fact, this begins to happen even while he anticipates arrest by the Roman rulers. <br />
<a name='more'></a>He comes to know that he will be betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas, into the hands of the Jews, who intended to kill him. Apart from this, the other thing that makes him sorrowful is that he was expecting to do many things that a Muslim does. He was looking forward to the joy of doing all those things; but now his end is staring on the face. He tells his disciples: <br />
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“My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.” (Mark 14:34) <br />
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The one thing that he can surely do, before he is arrested, is to pray to the Lord as a Muslim prays. So he prays like a Muslim and does prostration (Sajda), touching his forehead to the ground: <br />
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“And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed....” (Matthew 26:39) What is his prayer to the Lord? The verse (Matthew 26:39) continues: “...saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.” <br />
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Mark 14:36 says about his prayer: “And he said, Abba, Father, all things [are] possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.” <br />
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Luke 22:42 says about Jesus’ prayer: “Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but your, be done.” <br />
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The common thing observed from the above verses is: Jesus (peace be upon him) prays to the Lord to save him from the anticipated persecution at the hands of the Jews; yet not as Jesus wishes but as the Lord wills. Do you realize what Jesus is stating at this moment? He subdues his wishes and submits himself to the will of Allah. In other words, Jesus declares his Islam, submission, at that moment. <br />
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As already explained in Article 1 in this series: A Muslim is one who has submitted to the will of Allah. Islam means submission (to the will of Allah), while it also means Peace. Thus, by declaring his submission to the will of Allah, Jesus declared himself to be a Muslim. <br />
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It was also mentioned in Chapter 2 that Jesus (pbuh), as also the other prophets before him, called themselves ‘Muslims’. <br />
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But, then, why their followers were not named as ‘Muslims’, too? <br />
<a href="http://alquranobiggan.blogspot.com/"> </a>If the followers of the different other prophets were also to be called as ‘Muslims’, then there would have been confusion in distinguishing between the true Muslims (who believe in all the prophets) and the followers of other prophets (who believe in some prophets and disbelieve in the rest). Belief in all the messengers of Allah is a basic requirement to be called a Muslim. Allah tells the Muslims in Qur'an: <br />
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“ Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered. ” (2:136) <br />
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Thus, Jesus (pbuh) practiced Islam, i.e., Submission and he got Islam, i.e., Peace. How? <br />
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The Bible tells us in Luke 22:43 <br />
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“ And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.” <br />
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So, Jesus the Muslim (peace be upon him) had prayed in ARABIC: “Yaa Ilaahi, Yaa Ilaahi, Lima Sabaqtanee? ”. Does the phrase sound familiar? Yes, this is what he asked the Lord at that moment. “O my Lord, O my Lord, Why have you advanced me (in my end)? ” <br />
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Since he wished to do important things which a Muslim must do while he is still alive, the threatened end troubles him. So his prayer: “ O my Lord, O my Lord, Why have you ADVANCED ME? ” <br />
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Having not understood what he said, but actually having misunderstood what he said, the writers of the Gospel shifted these words into a situation where it fitted according to their understanding and scheme. The prayer has thus been misunderstood and then quoted out of context. <br />
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He did not utter such words at the cross, where he was never taken. They say that Jesus said: "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachtani? That is to say: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? "(Matthew 27:46) <br />
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The above statement attributed to Jesus is totally wrong, because: <br />
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1. God will never forsake His messenger. <br />
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2. Jesus, who submits himself to the will of the Lord, will never utter such a <br />
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(Please refer to the three verses quoted above: Matthew 26:39, Mark 14:36 and Luke 22:42) <br />
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The prayer of Jesus (pbuh) did not go unanswered, but was answered through the angel, which appeared, in order to strengthen him. Luke 22:43: “ And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.” <br />
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What message did the angel carry from the Lord, in reply to Jesus’ question: “ O my Lord, O my Lord, Why have you advanced me? ” <br />
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Let us turn to Qur'an, 3:55: <br />
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“When Allah said: O Jesus! I will complete you(r term) <br />
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and cause you to ascend unto Me <br />
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and cleanse you of those who disbelieve...” <br />
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Allah assures that Jesus will be saved from the Jews and that his term and what is destined for him is guaranteed for him and that Allah will cause Jesus to ascend unto Him. The Bible agrees that Jesus ascended unto heaven (Luke 24:51), but the main dispute is about what happened in between: the alleged crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus (pbuh). <br />
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Allah says in Qur'an that they neither killed him nor crucified him, but it was made to appear so unto them. In many places in Qur'an, it has been mentioned that Jews used to kill the prophets unjustly. But in the case of Jesus (pbuh) it vehemently denies that they killed him or that they crucified him. This is because Qur'an will not contain anything except truth. <br />
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Surah 4, Verses 157 & 158: <br />
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“and their saying : we killed Christ Jesus, son of Mary, The messenger of Allah - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it was made to appear to them so; and those who disagree concerning it are full of doubts; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; For surely they killed him not; but Allah took him up unto Himself; and Allah is ever mighty, wise.” <br />
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From the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), we get a more detailed account. The Muslim belief is that Allah changed the face of the person who betrayed Jesus, showing to the rulers the place where he was hiding, into a face resembling Jesus. So, they crucified that betrayer instead of Jesus. <br />
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Let us now do a deeper study of the above verses of Qur'an, so that we may be rightly guided into the truth. Allah says in Qur'an not only that Jesus was not killed, but also that he was not crucified, either. Those who do not accept the truth or those who accept only a part of the truth will never get at the truth. <br />
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As a result, <br />
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1. those who wish to prove that Jesus was crucified, but did not die at the cross; and <br />
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2. those who believe that Jesus was crucified and killed at the cross, <br />
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have equally failed to convince and provide clear-cut answers to the many points that beg a solution. Allah has said: “......and those who disagree concerning it are full of doubts.” <br />
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Those who disagree that he was neither killed nor crucified, are full of doubts. <br />
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So, before proceeding with our study, let us not disagree and let us not be in doubt any more. But let us fully believe in what Allah, The Exalted, says, so that we may be correctly guided. Allah says to Muhammad (pbuh), about Qur'an: “And We sent down the Book to you for the express purpose, that you should make clear to them those things in which they differ, and that it should be a guide and a mercy to those who believe.” (Qur'an 16:64) <br />
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Allah has said three things about the alleged crucifixion of Jesus: <br />
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1. They didn't kill him. <br />
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2. They didn't crucify him. <br />
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3. But it was made to appear to them so. <br />
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In the case of an affirmative sentence, like: “They killed him” , there is no doubt. Everything is clear. 1. The Offender 2. The Offence 3. The Offended. But once the word “NOT” comes in and makes it a negative sentence, like: “They DID NOT kill him”, there is a possibility to vary the meaning in three ways by shifting the stress alternatingly on the rest of the three words: <br />
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1. “They did not kill him” would mean that somebody else killed him. <br />
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2. “They did not kill him” in this context would mean that they just tortured him but did not kill him. <br />
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3. “They did not kill him” would mean that they killed somebody else. <br />
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We should remember that Qur'an is not denying the events wholesale by saying: “No. Nothing happened. Nobody did anything to anybody.” It is not saying so. Therefore, let us study further and consider for elimination, two out of the three possible variations of the sentence “They did not kill him” mentioned above. <br />
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There is no doubt as to The Offender. The Jews themselves claim to have done the deed and we all know of their complicity. Now the doubt remains about Two Things: The Offence and The Offended. About the second possibility that “They did not kill him” would mean that they crucified him but he escaped death, Allah denies that too. The next part of the verse eliminates that possibility by saying: They did not crucify him. Having eliminated the first two possibilities, only the third one survives: “They did not kill him.” Yes, it was not him that they crucified and killed, but someone else. So, let us write that part of the verse, by putting the stress on the right word: <br />
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they did not crucify him; <br />
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but it was made to appear to them so. <br />
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It was made to appear to them that they crucified Jesus and killed him. They did not kill nor crucified Jesus (pbuh). <br />
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Having fully believed in Allah’s words, let us now move on to find evidence of the truth in The Bible in support of it. <br />
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1. First of all, while Jesus was awaiting arrest by the soldiers, what he tells his disciples is that <br />
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a) “sleep on now, and take rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the son of man is betrayed into the hands of the sinners.” (Mark 14:41) <br />
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b) “the son of man is betrayed to be crucified” (Matthew 26:2) <br />
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Jesus never said he will be crucified, but only reveals the intention with which he will be betrayed: “betrayed to be crucified”. <br />
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2. Jesus says in Matthew 26:24: “The son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born”. <br />
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a) About himself, Jesus (pbuh) says: “The son of man goes as it is written of him ” ; goes and not dies. <br />
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b) About the betrayer he says: “it had been good for that man if he had not been born”, a nice way of wishing death for the betrayer. <br />
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Even after this curse by the messenger of Allah, is there a way that the betrayer will continue to live ? Thus, in the above verse, it has been determined as to who is destined to go and who is destined to die. <br />
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3. The betrayer Judas comes in to identify Jesus, when it is dark, along with a large number of soldiers , carrying lanterns, torches and weapons. The stage is perfect for the change of form of the betrayer and the betrayed, as more confusion follows: From Mark 14:44, Matthew 26:48 and Luke 22:47, which are quoted below, it is proved that Judas drew near unto Jesus to kiss him, so as to identify him. <br />
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Mark 14:44 : And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead [him] away safely. <br />
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Matt 26:48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. <br />
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Luke 22:47: And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. <br />
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From John 18:3 to 18:6 which is mentioned below, we come to know of another enabling factor: <br />
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18:3. Judas, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests, comes inside with lanterns and torches and weapons. <br />
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18:4. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should happen to him, went forth, and said unto them, whom do you seek? <br />
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18:5. They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus says unto them, I am [he]. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. <br />
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18:6. As soon as he had said unto them, I am [he], they went backward, and fell to the ground. <br />
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From verse 6 above, we notice one strange thing: as soon as Jesus identifies himself, “I am (he)”, the great crowd that had come in falls to the ground. As Judas stood near Jesus (after kissing him) and as the crowd fell to the ground along with the lanterns they brought, the situation was perfect for the exchange of faces, so that those who came to arrest him do not notice it. Then the soldiers, who came to arrest Jesus, take away Judas instead, while Jesus escapes along with his other disciples, who all fled the scene. <br />
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Mark 14:50: And they all forsook him, and fled. <br />
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(The readers of Bible normally take it to mean that the disciples forsook Jesus and fled. It is shameful to think that all the disciples of Jesus forsook him at the most crucial hour of his life. Qur'an testifies that the disciples expressed their belief and loyalty: <br />
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“ But when Jesus sensed disbelief from them, he said: Who will be my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We will be Allah’s helpers. We believe in Allah, and bear you witness that we have surrendered (unto Him). ” (3:52) <br />
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Therefore, it was Judas whom the disciples rightly forsook and all of them fled with Jesus.) <br />
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4. Now Judas is caught in an unbelievable situation, which nobody else would have experienced. Even if he tells the truth, nobody will believe it, but only think him to be Jesus trying to escape death. So it is better for him that he endures whatever happens. Some verses from the Bible are quoted below, to show how Judas behaves at the trials at the high priest's place. Whenever you encounter below the name Jesus, in the biblical verses, you have to take it as Judas, so that you may understand what the people on the scene and people in the past 2000 years have failed to comprehend. <br />
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John 18:19 to 18:23 <br />
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18:19 “ The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching. <br />
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18:20 Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet; and in secret have I said nothing. <br />
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18:21 Why ask you me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. <br />
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18:22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand (or with a rod), saying, Answer you the high priest so? <br />
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18:23 Jesus answered him, if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smite you me? ” <br />
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Thus the betrayer-in-a-dilemma Judas speaks evasively. He cannot preach what Jesus used to preach in the temple and in the synagogue. He neither has the authority nor the ability to repeat what Jesus used to preach. Anyway, he certainly cannot answer them if they question him further in religious matters. Had it really been Jesus, he would not have missed the opportunity to tell the priests of his teachings. But here, Judas evades the issue by saying: “I always spoke openly; I said nothing in secret; Ask them which heard me; they know what I said; If I spoke well, why you smite me.” etc. <br />
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<a href="http://www.alquranandmodernscience.wordpress.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0ObCzHElz_IdiZrp3ZtsmfPjNSB5AW0U85cbtZZaj411dVLu5cOTRsrC1rXHgrEgKh28bB0mHHIUigkRg2hRGxzVv-JaE-yhRxBO1zHB5Vwvlyd_cVj2n-9DxmEsqWtwbKkpmBupdWM/s400/alquranandmodernscience.wordpress.com(1401).jpeg" width="400" /></a>Matthew 26: <br />
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26:62 “And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? What is it, which these witness against you? <br />
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26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” <br />
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When some false witnesses testify against Jesus (Judas), the high priest begs Judas for an answer. But Judas remains quite. Then what the priest presses Judas to answer is not whether he is guilty or not but “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ”. <br />
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So the main question raking their brains is whether this person really is Jesus. <br />
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26:64 “Jesus said unto him, You have said: nevertheless I say unto you, Henceforth you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” <br />
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Judas does not say “I am Jesus”, but lets the priest take as true what he thinks, by saying: “You have said” and then continues “Henceforth you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power” instead of speaking in the first person “henceforth I shall sit at the right hand of Power.” <br />
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Then they condemn him to death by holding him guilty of blasphemy. One more thing you must note now is that in this session, the process of disfiguring Judas’ face has slowly begun. <br />
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26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands (or rods). This is quoted also in Luke 22:64. <br />
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5. Peter, who apparently witnessed what happened at the time of arrest, follows Judas to the priest's hall, so as to see what happens to Judas. The priest's servants come and question Peter three times whether he is a disciple of that person, (deeming Judas to be Jesus), but he, naturally, denies all the three times, as predicted by Jesus. Peter who was very loyal to Jesus and had told Jesus (in Matthew 26:35) “Even if I must die with you, [yet] will I not deny thee.” had to deny the person thrice because he cannot affirm to be the disciple of Judas, whom they deem to be Jesus. <br />
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6. Another account of the second session with the priests that took place on the day after the arrest, is given in Luke 22:66 to 68 : <br />
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22:66 : And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying, <br />
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22:67 Are you the Christ? Tell us. And he said unto them, if I tell you, you will not believe: <br />
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22:68 And if I also ask [you], you will not answer me, nor let [me] go. <br />
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Again, they want to know if he is Jesus. And he tells them: If I tell you (that I am Judas), you will not believe. And if I ask you (what happened to Jesus), you will not answer me, nor let me go. <br />
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7. In the trial that takes place before the governor Pilate, again the dominant question is: Are you the Christ? And most of the time Judas says: YOU say it. (That is YOUR statement, NOT MINE.) On other occasions, he remains silent like a stone. Please refer Luke 23:3, Mark 15:2, Mark 15:5, Matthew 27:11, Matthew 27:12. Matthew 27:14. <br />
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8. Jesus is brought for trial before another official Herod: <br />
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Luke 23:8 and Luke 23:9: <br />
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23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. <br />
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23:9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing. <br />
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Poor Herod, he has been longing to witness some of the miracles that he had heard Jesus performing. But can Judas perform those miracles? On the other hand, he avoids talking straight to even somebody who is sympathetic and glad to see him, because he is not what Herod deems him to be: he is not Jesus. <br />
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9. By talking evasively and at times refusing to talk, Judas somehow managed to avoid being found guilty by the Governor and other officials. But the Jews do not wish to lose face by retreating from the actions already taken to have Jesus killed. Hence, upon their stubborn insistence, he is condemned to be crucified. Before they take him to the cross, more injury is done to him: <br />
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Mark 15:19: And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him. <br />
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Matthew 27:30: And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. <br />
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Please note that after first injuring his FACE, now it is the turn of his HEAD to be injured. Judas is killed at the cross and later on buried. John does not add dramatic words to this scene of crucifixion, but quotes what could be reasonable words from the betrayer, while he dies: <br />
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1. “ I thirst! ” (John 19:28) <br />
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2. “ It is finished! ” ... and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30) <br />
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(not the “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit ” kind of stuff! See Luke 23:46). <br />
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10. The Bible records that Mary (pbuh), Jesus’ (pbuh) mother, was a witness to the crucifixion. <br />
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John 19:25 “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother.... ” <br />
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While the Bible records the reaction of every bystander and passer-by, it fails to mention the reaction of Mary (pbuh) the mother of Jesus, because there was no reaction from her worth mentioning. Since she knew that the person on the cross was not Jesus, she stood by the cross and just watched the punishment meted out to the betrayer of Jesus. Had the person on the cross really been Jesus, she would have reacted hysterically. Because it was she who bore Jesus with difficulty and delivered him with pains. No mother will be a mute spectator to such an event. <br />
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Qur'an records the labour pains of Mary, while she delivered Jesus: <br />
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“ And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died before this and had become a thing forgotten.” (19:23) <br />
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11. The Bible says that Jesus addressed his mother from the cross as “ Woman! ” (John 19:26). No mean person will address his mother as “Woman! ”. It is only because the person on the cross was Judas and not Jesus (pbuh) that he addresses Mary as “ Women! ” Qur'an testifies that Jesus was kind to his mother and said from his cradle: “ And (God has made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and has not made me arrogant, unblest. ” (19: 32) <br />
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12. And where is Jesus (pbuh) when all this happens. Jesus had predicted, in Matthew 12:40 <br />
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“for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” <br />
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Do you know which is the heart of the earth? Before thinking further, let us consider what is the function of a heart. <br />
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It draws blood from other parts of the body for purification and again sends it back to all the parts. Right? Can you think of a place on the earth, which draws people from all parts of the earth and sends them back, too, after purifying them? And that too at a regular interval, just like the heart? <br />
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Yes, you guessed it right: it is Mecca. <br />
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<a href="http://facebook.com/dbht1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsj8WkodYpjKRTTn51rUIf9NQkajiKwBY8b5z3aj5KloayOoMW1NtB62eFrcdL82GMYuv4IjQr4qZT-c3CR7CUGdRWoYqdy3XPLueb4Tcl0CXfBrnMllXV1VGY0abhQT0jImVEx3AKO2Q/s400/tumblr_lut50hsL0q1qapew1o1_500.jpg" width="400" /></a>It is the belief of Muslims that all the prophets wished to be a follower of Muhammad, in preference to be born as a prophet. Only Jesus was granted the wish. Jesus is expected to descend on the earth again, supported by two angels, during the reign of the expected guided leader Mahdee. Jesus (pbuh) will live as one of the followers of Muhammad (pbuh) and follow the Shariah (laws) brought by Muhammad. Jesus (peace be upon him) knew that he would live as a Muslim when he comes back to the earth. But he could not wait, as we now know, not less than twenty centuries to relish this. So, when he knows that his days in the earth are not many, he formally submits himself to the Lord, starts to pray in Arabic, does prostration and now goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca. (This may not be the first time Jesus is praying like a Muslim. Qur'an records what Jesus spoke from his cradle: “And (God) has made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and has enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive.” (19: 31). <br />
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(Earlier, he had prayed to the Lord for the Muslims, in the following manner: <br />
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17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; <br />
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17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me). <br />
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And as predicted, he was in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. <br />
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13. THE JEWS IN A DILEMMA: <br />
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Now let us imagine the restlessness of the Jews after the soldiers brought Judas, thinking him to be Jesus. While, according to them, Jesus is in their custody, what happened to their man, Judas? Why did he not turn up to win accolades from them, for the great betrayal he committed, in order to please them. This must have greatly disturbed them. Anyway, where is Judas? <br />
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The answer to this was provided to them by the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, and made possible the entry of Peter into the palace. <br />
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“John 18:15 : And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and [so did] another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. <br />
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John 18:16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.” <br />
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That other disciple sounded the high priest of what happened at the time of arrest, but since it is an unbelievable event for everyone, they wanted to elicit information from Judas and, hence, kept on enquiring Judas, whether he is really Christ. On the basis of the information provided by the other disciple, the high priest’s people tried thrice to rope in Peter for enquiry, by sending female servants to talk to him, but he craftily refused to yield. The Jews were in a terrible dilemma. <br />
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1. Now they have to kill a person who co-operated with them against Jesus. The fellow is not even trying to save himself, being unable to overcome the humiliation wrought on him by the Lord. <br />
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2. If they disclose the truth and spare Judas, they have to bear the shame of having failed to kill Jesus. So they decided to kill Judas and claimed to have killed Jesus. <br />
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Now, they face another problem: How to account for the missing Judas. So, their soldiers removed Judas’ body from the grave, while everybody was observing the Sabbath - (the compulsory religious holiday on Saturdays.) Then they disfigure the face more, because that is the only thing that has the resemblance of Jesus. After this is done, he is now perfectly Judas. To account for the injury to the face and the head, they spread the news that is reported in Acts 1:18: <br />
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“Acts 1:18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” <br />
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Is it not enough that they have disfigured his head and face? What is the necessity to cut open his stomach and spread the news that: “ he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” <br />
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· So that, because of the nasty stench it would produce, nobody can come near the body and notice or find out the minor injuries that Judas suffered at the cross. <br />
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· The cause of death should be very apparent from a distance, in order to avoid a close scrutiny by curious people. <br />
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The fact that all this was done by the Jews, by bribing the watchmen or the soldiers, is recorded in Matthew 28:11 to 28:15 <br />
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“Matthew 28:11: Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and informed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. <br />
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28:12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, <br />
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28:13 Saying, Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him [away] while we slept. <br />
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28:14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you <br />
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28:15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.” <br />
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And to make it appear that it was really Jesus whom they arrested and to make the people believe that Judas was roaming freely after the arrest took place, they spread the lie that he came to the temple and threw back the silver coins he received as bribe from them: “Matthew 27:5: And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.” That this verse is a total lie is borne by the fact that the other accounts talk of Judas falling headlong and his bowels gushing out. (Acts 1:18) <br />
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14. In respect of the later events: <br />
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a. at the grave where they buried Judas and <br />
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b. where Jesus meets his disciples, etc. <br />
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we find a lot of difference in the narration of Luke, John, Matthew and Mark, just as in respect of the earlier events. It is a waste of time counting and comparing the different and conflicting details. Hence, only those details that are important in view of the truth revealed above are mentioned. <br />
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15. a) When Mary Magdalene goes to the grave; she finds that the stone covering the grave of Judas is already removed. <br />
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“Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? <br />
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16:4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. <br />
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16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.” <br />
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Points to be noted in the above verses: 1. The heavy stone was already rolled away by the soldiers of the governor. 2. People perform the pilgrimage rites in Mecca wearing white clothing. <br />
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b) Mary Magdalene sees two angels in white sitting. (John 20:12) Just as the Muslims believe that The Almighty will provide two angels for Jesus’ descent from heaven, when he comes again, similarly these two angels have made possible his pilgrimage to Mecca. <br />
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c) Luke 24:4 & 24:5 <br />
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24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: <br />
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24:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down [their] faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? <br />
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The two men in shining garments are angels, who refer Jesus as the living, and not as the resurrected. <br />
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d) John 20:14: “And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. <br />
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20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him,” etc. <br />
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Points to be noted: She saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus, because she supposed him to be the gardener. She could not recognize Jesus, because of the changed face and deemed him to be the gardener because of the simple cloths worn while performing pilgrimage rites. Moreover, he would have had a shaven head, another rite of the pilgrimage. <br />
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e) John 20:17 “Jesus saith unto her, touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.” <br />
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Things to be noted: <br />
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1. Jesus tells her “Touch me not”. <br />
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However, when Jesus meets his disciples later, he asks them to touch him and handle him, but here he forbids her. The reason: As a good Muslim, he avoids being touched by the lady. <br />
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2. Jesus says: " I am not yet ascended to my Father: " <br />
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That means he knew that he was supposed to ascend only, as the Almighty had already informed him through the angel. His statement shows that he did not expect himself to die, nor resurrect, but only ascend. <br />
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f) The same day evening, Jesus appears before his disciples and says: “Peace be unto you”, (i.e., Assalaamu Alaikum,) as a Muslim. . <br />
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g) Luke 24:13 to 24:24 is quoted below. In this event, two disciples walking together while going to a village, are joined by Jesus. Jesus enquires them as to what they are talking and why they are sad. They narrate the whole story from being condemned to death to the vision of angels at the sepulchre. If it were Jesus who suffered all that, then he would not pretend ignorance and listen again to all that which he himself has suffered, as they think. Only because he was absent and went on the pilgrimage to Mecca, he did not know of what happened in his absence and, hence, he is enquiring and listening to the whole story. <br />
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Luke 24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs. <br />
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24:14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. <br />
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24:15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. <br />
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24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. <br />
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24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? <br />
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24:18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? <br />
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24:19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: 24:20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. <br />
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24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. <br />
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24:22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher; <br />
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24:23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. <br />
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24:24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulcher, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.” <br />
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This is another proof that it was Judas who suffered death at the cross. <br />
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h) Back in Jerusalem, Jesus has another session with the eleven disciples: <br />
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1. “Luke 24:36: And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and says unto them, Peace [be] unto you. <br />
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24:37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.” Having seen the dead body of Judas, they were now 100 % sure of his death. Hence, when Jesus appears there with Judas’ face, they are terrified and affrighted and supposed that they had seen a spirit. <br />
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2. Luke 24:38: “And he said unto them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? <br />
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24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. <br />
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24:40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them [his] hands and [his] feet.” <br />
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John repeats similarly in 20:20 : <br />
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John 20:20: “And when he had so said, he shewed unto them [his] hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.” <br />
<br />
From the above, we can understand fully well, that Jesus’ face is not the identity of the person, at that moment, because it looked like Judas’. Hence, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself” and “when they saw his hands and his sides they were glad they saw the Lord ” <br />
<br />
3. Luke 24:41 “ And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? <br />
<br />
24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.” <br />
<br />
Fish is the only thing that a Muslim can obtain from anyone and eat. The meat of other (permitted) animals and birds should be properly slaughtered in the manner taught by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and by mentioning the name of Allah over it, while slaughtering. Hence, the other meat cannot be obtained from everybody. <br />
<br />
4. John 20:30 “And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.” <br />
<br />
Most important of which should be: restoration of his face, as it looked before. <br />
<br />
The Bible does provide a clue that Jesus' face was restored to its original appearance, before his ascension unto heaven. <br />
<br />
In the verse of John 21:12, which is in the context of the events just before his ascension, it is written: <br />
<br />
“ Jesus saith unto them, Come [and] dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.” This time, there is no need to see his hands and his feet to know that it is Jesus. <br />
<br />
<br />
Now, it is time to thank the Almighty for opening our eyes to the truth, by accepting Islam. We now know for certain that: <br />
<br />
1. There is no God except Allah; and <br />
<br />
2. Muhammad (peace be upon him) is a slave and a messenger of Allah and the last of the prophets, whom all the people have to follow. This has been foretold in The Bible. <br />
<br />
3. Idols and graven images are forbidden. <br />
<br />
4. Allah sent messengers to all nations. <br />
<br />
5. Jesus (peace be upon him) too is a slave and a messenger of Allah, but sent only for (the lost sheep of) the house of Israel. <br />
<br />
6. Jesus is a creation of Allah; he is not His son and has no portion whatsoever in His Sovereignty. <br />
<br />
7. Jesus was not killed, nor crucified. It was his betrayer who was killed on the cross. <br />
<br />
The next time you see a cross, you would know that it is not a sign that relates to Jesus, but something that denotes the punishment his betrayer deserved and got. <br />
<br />
But..., should we have a memorial to commemorate the betrayer of a mighty messenger of Allah ? <br />
<br />
Qur’an: 5: 83 to 86. <br />
<br />
83. When they listen to that which has been revealed unto the messenger, you see their eyes overflow with tears because of their recognition of the truth. They say: Our Lord, we believe; write us down as among the witnesses. <br />
<br />
84. How should we not believe in Allah and that which has come unto us of the truth and we hope that our Lord will admit us to the company of the righteous folk. <br />
<br />
85. Allah has rewarded them for what they said: Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever. That is the reward of the good people. <br />
<br />
86. But those who disbelieve and deny Our signs, they shall be companions of hell-fire. </div>
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<span style="color: red;">Jesus said, "Surely, Allah is
my Lord and your Lord"</span></h1>
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(Qur'an 3:51) Surely, Allah is my Lord and your Lord; so serve Him alone.
This is the straight way.'<br />
As with other Prophets, the fundamental points of Jesus' mission were the
following:<br />
(1) Man should acknowledge- the exclusive sovereignty of God which demands
absolute service and obedience to Him, and Him alone. This principle serves as
the basis for the entire structure of human morality and social behaviour.<br />
(2) Man should obey the Prophets since they are the representatives of the
true Sovereign.<br />
(3) The Law which should regulate man's conduct by elaborating what is right
and what is wrong should be none other than the Law of God. The laws devised by
others should be abrogated. There is, thus, no difference between the missions
of Jesus, Moses and Muhammad (peace be on them all). Those who think that the
missions of the Prophets differ from one another and who believe that their
objectives vary have fallen into serious error. Whoever is sent by the Lord of
the Universe to His creatures can have no other purpose than to dissuade God's
subjects from disobeying Him and assuming an attitude of vanity and disregard
towards Him, and to admonish them against associating anyone with God in His
divinity (that is, either holding anyone to be a partner with the Lord of the
Universe in His Sovereignty or recognizing others beside God as having a
rightful claim on part of man's loyalty, devotion and worship), and to invite
them all to be loyal to, and to serve, obey and worship God alone.<br />
It is unfortunate that the Gospels in their present form do not offer as
clear a picture of the mission of Jesus as that presented by the Qur'an.
Nevertheless, we find scattered throughout the Gospels all the three
fundamentals mentioned above. The notion that man ought to submit himself
totally to God is embodied in the following statement:<br />
You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve' (Matthew
4: 10).<br />
In addition, Jesus believed that the object of his efforts was that God's
commands relating to the moral realm should be obeyed in this world in the
sphere of human conduct just as His commands about the operation of the
physical universe are obeyed in the heavens:<br />
'Thy kingdom come,<br />
Thy will be done,<br />
On earth as it is in heaven' (ibid., 6: 10).<br />
The fact that Jesus presented himself as a Prophet and a representative of
the Kingdom of Heaven, and that in this capacity he
asked people to follow him is borne out by several statements. When, for
instance, he began his mission in Nazareth
and when his own kith, kin and compatriots turned against him, he remarked: 'A
prophet is not without honour except in his own country . . .' (Matthew 13: 57;
see also Luke 4: 24 and Mark 6: 4). And when conspiracies were hatched in Jerusalem to put an end to his life, and people counselled
him to go away, he replied: 'Nevertheless I must go on my way . . . for it
cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem' (Luke 13: 33). When Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last
time the disciples cried with a loud voice: 'Blessed be the King who comes in
the name of the Lord' (Luke 19: 38). This angered the Pharisees, who asked
Jesus to rebuke his disciples. But he replied: 'I tell you, if these were
silent the very stones would cry out' (ibid., 19: 40). On another occasion he
said: 'Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light'
(Matthew 11: 28-30).<br />
The fact that he invited people to obey the Laws of God rather than the laws
made by man is evident from his response (found in both Matthew and Mark) to
the objection raised by the Pharisees to the conduct of their disciples who ate
with defiled hands, that is, without washing.<br />
'Well did Isiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:<br />
This people honours me with their lips,<br />
but their heart is far from me;<br />
in vain do they worship me,<br />
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'<br />
And he said to them: 'You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God
in order to keep your tradition. For Moses said, "Honour your father and
your mother", and "He who speaks evil of his father or mother, let
him surely die", but you say, "If a man tells his father or mother
what you would have gained from me is Corban (that is, given to God), and then
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making
void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on"' (Mark 7:
6-13; see also Matthew 15: 2-9).<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jesus Christ in Islam</b></span></div>
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<div class="style18">
<i>By Yahya Ibrahim - <span class="style22">Lecture delivered
Perth, Australia</span></i></div>
<div class="style17">
<a href="http://facebook.com/alquranscience" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>All Praise is for Allah alone. He is the Rabb<sup><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></sup> of all that exists. Surely, we send the
highest <a href="http://facebook.com/alquranscience" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJD2NeV3AlhJRKWU1J58ZYBWbVjZOoqhQKkYNZrNPYq-v4fVBB13k6AHvjw9jErRG6YC3VHZcWfcyBK0m06SJ_EGlBQJmDQwwJqGT8RrrdFUwcY8aPxgMWwMNlCCnIDqePjFNw7UqZnU/s400/alquranandmodernscience.wordpress.com(1402).jpeg" width="307" /></a>Salah and Salam<sup><span style="color: blue;">[2] </span></sup>upon the
Final Prophet, the leader of the pious and upon his family, companions and
those who follow their example with Ih’san<sup><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></sup>
till the Day of Reckoning.<br />
<br />
Amma Ba‘du<sup><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></sup>:<br />
<br />
Primer<br />
<br />
Before we begin, I will give you a primer on some of the Arabic words that I
will use in my lecture today:<br />
<br />
<span class="style19">Allah</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Literally
means "the God", "the One who is deserving of worship".<br />
<span class="style19">Qur’an:</span> The final scripture according to Muslim
tradition; the final Word of God.<br />
<span class="style19">Sala Allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam: </span>You may hear me use
this phrase after mentioning the names of the prophets. It means "may the
peace and blessings of God be upon him".<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="style20"><b>Introduction </b></span></span><br />
<br />
Today’s lecture is intended as an educational discussion. But it will also be
useful for us to learn about each others’ beliefs, because the scholars – past
and present – have said, "The root cause of hatred is ignorance".<br />
<br />
Jesus is known to the Muslims as ‘Issa – this is the name for Jesus that we
have been given in our scriptures.<br />
<br />
To Muslims, Jesus – or ‘Issa – is a saviour, a reformist, the Messiah (the
anointed one), the "Word of God". He was elevated to heaven. He could
cure the ill, raise the dead, fashion inanimate objects and blow life into
them, all by the Will of God.<br />
<br />
We believe that the one who disbelieves in Jesus is not a Muslim, because the
person who disbelieves in one the prophets disbelieves in all of them. So
Muslims believe in Jesus and in his message. His message was one with all the
other messengers. In the Qur’an, it is said that God never sent a messenger to
mankind except that he was sent with one warning: Worship Allah alone.<br />
<br />
Muhammad (sala allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) said:<br />
<br />
"I am the most worthy of ‘Issa bin Marium in this life and in the
hereafter." They (Sahaba) asked: "Why is that O Messenger of Allah
(sala allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam)?"<br />
<br />
He (sala allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) replied: "The Prophets are paternal
(bloodline) brethren (from fathers side). Their mothers may be different
(races, peoples, bloodlines) yet their Deen is always one (Islam)."
Reported by Bukhari and Muslim.<br />
<br />
Therefore this necessitates that he who disputes the validity of one of the
true Prophets and Messengers has in fact reviled and disputed all of them. One
cannot believe in Muhammad (sala allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) and not believe in
‘Issa (Alihi as-Salaam). Equally, one cannot truly believe in ‘Issa and not
believe in Muhammad (sala allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam). To truly accept one
Prophet or Messenger necessitates the acceptance of all those who came before
him and all who will come after him, ending with Muhammad (sala allahu ‘alihi
was-Salaam).</div>
<a name='more'></a>My lecture today will cover four main points:<br />
<br />
<b>1</b><span class="style20">. Who was Mary – because before looking
at Jesus in Islam, we must first recognise the status of Mary in Islam.</span><br />
<b>2.</b><span class="style20"> The immaculate conception.</span><br />
<b>3. </b><span class="style20">The special traits sent to Jesus by
Allah as a way of proving to all humanity of the truth of the essential divine</span><br />
<span class="style20">message.</span><br />
<b>4.</b><span class="style20"> The Muslim perspective on the
crucifixion, and what came after. </span><span style="color: blue;"><br />
</span><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
<span class="style20"><b>1. Maryam (Mary) the daughter of ’Imran </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://facebook.com/alquranscience" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKY2yzo1JhHspMubIXsKblD78OZO2FAMYyX7mAfPaesxPfb3pZRCCyynsdpSjuFsursu6jCDfDrYaIVRYcofpRpki1K11dSd3NH46jYv0QOhHrlbiKytyfEDOxCiSqvt0SCyOhElq1HOA/s400/alquranandmodernscience.wordpress.com(1403).jpeg" width="400" /></a>Of the most poignant and telling mother-son relationships in the Quran is that
of ‘Issa bin Marium (Alihi as-Salaam). For the first and last time in history a
Prophet would not be addressed by his father’s name. Rather, he is referred to
as Jesus the son of Mary.<br />
<br />
To assess and grasp the true virtue of ‘Issa (Alihi as-Salaam) it is necessary
to learn about his mother Marium ibnata ‘Imran (Alihi as-Salaam).<br />
<br />
Mary’s mother grew to be of an old age, and became barren. She prayed to God
for one final child, whom she would dedicate in God’s service. When she
conceived in old age, she said as records to us in the Quran says:<br />
<br />
"Allah chose Adam, Nuh (Noah), and the family of Ibrahim and the family of
‘Imran above the ‘Alameen (all creation during their respective times).
Offspring, one of the other and Allah is the All-Hearer, All-Knowing.<br />
<br />
(Remember) when the wife of ‘Imran said: ‘O my Lord! I have vowed to You what
(the child that) is in my womb to be dedicated for your services (free from all
worldly work and obligations; solely for your worship) so accept this from me.
Verily you are the All-Hearer (You hear my Du‘a) and the All-Knowing (and you
know my sincere intention in fulfilling this vow).’<br />
<br />
Then when she gave birth to her (Marium), she said ‘O my Lord! I have given
birth to a female child.’ – And Allah knew better what she brought forth (He is
the Creator), - ‘And the male is not like the female, and I have named her
Marium (literally = pure maidservant of Allah), and I seek refuge with You
(Allah) for her and her offspring from the Shaytan (Satan), the outcast.’<br />
<br />
So her Lord (Allah) accepted her with goodly acceptance. He made her grow in a
good manner and put her under the care of Zakariyya (Prophet Zachary)."
Ali-‘Imran 3:33-37<br />
<br />
When Mary’s mother gave birth to Mary, she was saddened that the child was a
girl. This was because, in Jewish tradition, there are very few religious acts
of devotion that could be performed by a female. Of 514 daily acts of devotion,
only 4 required of a Jewish woman.<br />
<br />
She named her child Maryam, which means "the pure one", or "the
one who is purified". Allah accepted the young female child into His
service, and chose Zakariyyah – or Zacchariah – to be her caregiver. Zakariyyah
was one of the prophets of Islam. He was chosen out of all of the scribes of
his time, who were gathered together and instructed to throw their pens into a
stream. They were told that whoever’s pen flowed against the current would be
the child’s guardian. Zakariyyah’s pen was the one that flowed against the current.<br />
<br />
Of Maryam, the Prophet Muhammad (sala Allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) said: "Of
men, many have attained completion with their Lord. But of women, there were
four – Marium the daughter of ‘Imraan, Asiyah the wife of Pharoah, Khadeejah
bint Khuwaylid and Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad." (Agreed Upon)<br />
<br />
The Prophet Muhammad (sala Allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) also said of Maryam, that
when every child is born, the devil pricks the child at the time of its birth,
and the child cries out, except for Maryam and her son.<br />
<br />
Rasool ul Allah (sala Allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) mentions: "No new born
escapes the prick (touch) of the Shaytan at the time of their birth. (The touch
is what) causes them to begin to scream. Only Marium and her son (escaped being
molested by the Shaytan)." Reported through authentic narrations in the
Musnad of al-Imam Ahmed and the Sahih of al-Imam Muslim.<br />
<br />
Allah said in the Qur’an:<br />
<br />
"And (remember) when the angels said: "O Maryam! Verily, Allah has
chosen you, purified you (from polytheism and disbelief), and chosen you above
the women of the ’?lam?n (mankind and jinn)." Qur’an – Surat ?l-Imr?n 3:
41<br />
Thus, Maryam was chosen above all of humanity to bear ‘Issa.<br />
Chapter 19 of the Qur’an is titled "Maryam", and is dedicated to her
story and the immaculate conception.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span class="style19">2. Immaculate conception </span></b></span><br />
<br />
In the Qur’an, Muhammad is told to recite the story of Maryam:<br />
<br />
"And mention in the Book (the Qur’an, O Muhammad, the story of) Maryam,
when she withdrew in seclusion from her family to a place facing east. She placed
a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our Ruh (the angel
Gabriel), and he appeared before her in the form of a man in all respects. She
said: ‘Verily, I seek refuge with the Most Gracious (Allah) from you, if you do
fear Allah.’ (The angel) said: ‘I am only a messenger from your Lord, (to
announce) to you the gift of a righteous son.’ She said: ‘How can I have a son,
when no man hath touched me, nor am I unchaste?’ He said: ‘So (it will be),
your Lord said "That is easy for Me (Allah): And (We wish) to appoint him
as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (Allah), and it is a matter (already)
decreed (by Allah)." ‘ " Qur’an – Surat Maryam 19: 16-21<br />
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Jesus was named the "Word of God", because Allah
said "Be" and he was. Allah sets forth a parable between Jesus and
Adam: Adam was taken from the earth, not born from the womb of a woman. Allah
says:</div>
<div class="style17">
"Verily the likeness of ‘Issa (Jesus) before Allah is the
likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: ‘Be’ – and
he was." Qur’an – Surat ?l-Imr?n 3: 59</div>
<div class="style17">
Jesus did not have a father. But this does not mean that Jesus
is divine and worthy of worship, because Adam’s existence was more miraculous
than that of Jesus.</div>
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Allah also says in the Qur’an that Jesus and his mother would become
tired, and would need sustenance. Therefore, they could not be divine.<br />
<br />
The story of the Immaculate Conception is continued in the Qur’an:<br />
<br />
"So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a far place. And the
pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date palm. She said: ‘Would
that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!’ Then
[the baby ‘Issa] cried unto her from below her, saying: ‘Grieve not: your Lord
has provided a water stream under you.’ " Qur’an – Surat Maryam 19: 22-24<br />
Jesus spoke to Maryam as a miracle from God, to tell her that she should not be
fearful and she should not be in sorrow. Maryam was instructed that when she
returned to her family, she was not to answer any of their questions. So when
they confronted her, she pointed to the child. They said, "How can we ask
this child in the cradle?" Then the baby Jesus spoke, and said:<br />
" ‘Verily I am a slave of Allah, He has given me the Scripture and made me
a Prophet; and He has made me blessed wheresoever I be, and has enjoined on me
Salaat (prayer) and Zakaat (alms-giving or charity), as long as I live. And to
be dutiful to my mother, and made me not arrogant, unblest. And peace be upon
me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!’
Such is ‘Issa, son of Maryam. (It is) a statement of truth, about which they
doubt." Qur’an – Surat Maryam 19: 30-34<br />
That is the story of the immaculate conception as it is related to us in the
Qur’an.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="style20"><b>3. Special attributes of Jesus </b></span></span><br />
<br />
The immaculate conception was one of the many miracles that Allah gave to
Jesus.<br />
<br />
In Islamic sources, Jesus began as a shepherd, as were all of the prophets of
God before they received their Message. Jesus knew the Torah, and could read
and write from the time of infancy.<br />
<br />
Jesus grew up knowing his cousin Yahya (John the Baptist). Both of them would
together call to the worship of God.<br />
<br />
Jesus never once said: "Worship me" – this was not befitting for any
of the Messengers of God.<br />
<br />
Jesus lived a full life, but he was fought against and hated and reviled by
different enemies, including the evil rabbis of the time, who wished for power
and status.<br />
<br />
The scholars state that every Prophet and Messenger was sent with the type of
evidence, signs, and proofs that their respective nations would respond to.
During the time of Musa (Alihi as-Salaam), magic and illusions were widespread
and falsely attributed to false deities. So Allah sent Musa with what would
eclipse Pharaoh’s magicians. During the time of ‘Issa (Alihi as-Salaam) curing
the ill was seen as a divine power. Allah therefore sent ‘Issa and granted him
unique abilities.<br />
<br />
Allah will remind ‘Issa of these abilities on the Day of Judgment as Allah
describes them to us in Suratil Ma’idah (5:110-115):<br />
<br />
"(Remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection), ‘O ‘Issa son
of Marium! Remember My Favour to you and to your mother when I supported you
with Ruh ul-Qudus (Jibreel) so that you spoke to the people in the (from the)
cradle (at a young age) and (while) in maturity. Jibreel aided you in ordering
the people to work good deeds and to submit themselves to Allah while staying
away from evil deeds throughout the whole of your time with them (people).<br />
<br />
And when I taught you writing, al-Hikmah (the power of reasoning, logic,
understanding. Putting everything in its proper place at the proper time for
the proper reason), and the Torah and the Injeel (Gospel). Allah granted ‘Issa
all of these intellectual capabilities from his inception as some of the people
of Tafseer have stated. We do not establish this claim as truth, nor do we deny
it as falsehood.<br />
<br />
And when you made out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My
Permission, and you breathed into it, and it became a bird by My Permission.<br />
<br />
And you healed those who were born blind (not just those who happened to have
lost their sight), the lepers by My Permission.<br />
<br />
And when you brought forth the dead by My Permission.<br />
<br />
And when I restrained the Children of Israel from you (when they resolved to
kill you) since you came unto them with clear proofs, and the disbelievers
among them said, ‘This is nothing but evident magic.’ This was the greatest
miracle granted by Allah to ‘Issa. We will shortly begin discussing the
intricacies of how ‘Issa was saved from the Jews and the Romans. This ayah also
shows that those who sought the death of ‘Issa were the Jews and not the Romans
per-say. The ayah also shows that there were Jews who believed (Hawarieen or
Disciples) and those who disbelieved.<br />
<br />
And when I (Allah) put in the hearts of al-Hawarieen (the Disciples of ‘Issa)
to believe in Me and My Messenger (you O ‘Issa), they said: ‘We believe. And
bear witness that we are Muslims.’ This ayah shows clearly that Allah places
guidance in the hearts of individuals. There were many that rejected the truth
although they also witnessed the aforementioned miraculous occurrences.
Guidance is solely from Allah, as is the misguidance of those whom were
destined to reject the truth and Light of Tawheed.<br />
<br />
(Remember) when the disciples said: ‘O ‘Issa, son of Marium! Is your Lord able
to send down to us a table spread (with food) from heaven?’ ‘Issa said, ‘Fear
Allah, if you are indeed believers!’ Although they have seen clay birds being
brought to life, the blind and lepers alleviated of their illness, the raising
of the dead and many other miracles, they still say, "Is your Lord
able!" The syntax of their question implies that if your Lord does not
furnish us this table spread then He is UNABLE, not unwilling!<br />
<br />
They said, ‘We wish to eat thereof and to be stronger in Faith, and to know
that you have indeed told us the truth and that we ourselves be its witnesses.’<br />
<br />
Once again the weakness of their faith is apparent. The syntax in their
statement indirectly implies that if you have told us the truth and you really
are a Prophet and a Messenger then your Lord will bring down the table spread
that we request. Otherwise you have not spoken the truth. They admit that their
faith is weak. ‘Issa (Alihi as-Salaam) therefore invokes Allah for the table
spread.<br />
<br />
‘Issa, son of Marium, said, ‘O Allah, Our Lord! Send us from Heaven a table
spread (with food) that there may be for us – for the first and the last of us
– a festival and a sign from You; and provide us Sustenance, for You are the
Best to Sustain.’ The request although seemingly simple enough in comparison
with the other miracles performed by ‘Issa is of a different nature. The
request of the Disciples is a challenge to Allah. Sufyan ath-Thawri (radiya
Allahu ‘Anhu) states: A day of festivity means a day that we can mark with your
worship.<br />
<br />
Salman al-Farisi (radiya Allahu ‘Anhu) said: A day for us to mark by
remembering you.<br />
<br />
Allah said, ‘I am going to send it down unto you, but if any of you after that
disbelieves, then I will punish him a torment such as I have not inflicted on
anyone among (all) the ‘Alamin (all that exist, mankind and Jinn).’<br />
<br />
‘Abullah bin ‘Amr bin al ‘Aws (radiya Allahu ‘Anhu) states: "The three
most punished peoples on the Day of Ressurrection shall be: The Hypocrites (at
time of Rasool ul Allah), those who disbelieved after the Table spread was
brought down, and Pharaoh and his legions.<br />
<br />
Ma’idah (5:110-115)<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: green;"><br />
</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span class="style20">4. The Muslim perspective on the crucifixion </span></span></b><br />
<br />
Jesus was saved by God for the end of times. Allah said in the Qur’an:<br />
<br />
"And because of their (the Jews) disbelief and uttering against Marium a
grave false charge (that she has committed illegal sexual intercourse);<br />
<br />
And because of their (the Jews) saying (in boast), ‘We killed the Messiah
‘Issa, son of Marium, the Messenger of Allah (they say this in mockery),’ – but
they killed him not, nor crucify him, but the resemblance of a ‘Issa was put
over another man (and they killed that man). And (surely) those who differ
therein are full of doubts (amongst themselves). They have no (certain)
knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture (speculation). For surely they
killed him not.<br />
<br />
But Allah raised him (Rafa‘ahu) up (‘Issa’s body and soul together) unto
Himself. And Allah is Ever All-Powerful, All-Wise." Qur’an – Surat
An-Nis?’ 4: 157<br />
<br />
The Jews and the Romans proclaimed in joy: "We have killed the
Messiah!" But they did not kill him or crucify him; but he was saved by
God and raised to heaven.<br />
<br />
Allah says in Surati Ali-‘Imran (3:54-58):<br />
<br />
"And they (the disbelievers from the Jews and Romans) plotted (to kill
‘Issa), and Allah Planned too. And Allah is the Best of Planners.<br />
<br />
And (remember) when Allah said: ‘O ‘Issa! I will take you (Mutawaafeek) and
raise you to Myself and clear you (of the forged statements) of those who
disbelieve, and I will make those who follow you (Monotheists) superior to
those who disbelieve (in the Oneness of Allah) till the day of Resurrection.
Then you will return to Me and I will Judge between you in the matters in which
you used to dispute.’"<br />
<br />
We Muslims believe that one day the Antichrist will come, and then Jesus will
descend from the heavens and slay him, and will live among the Muslims and rule
them. During those times the earth shall be filled with justice and blessing.<br />
<br />
Mohammad (sala Allahu ‘alihi was-Salaam) said:<br />
<br />
"The earth would be told to bring forth its fruit and restore its blessing
and, as a result thereof, there would grow (such a big) pomegranate that a
group of persons would be able to eat that, and seek shelter under its skin.<br />
<br />
A cow would give so much milk that a whole party would be able to drink it. And
the camel would give such (a large quantity of) milk that the whole tribe would
be able to drink out of that.<br />
<br />
And the sheep would give so much milks that the whole family would be able to
drink out of that.<br />
<br />
At that time, Allah would send a pleasant wind, which would soothe (people),
even under their armpits, and would take the life of every Muslim and only the
wicked would survive who would commit adultery like asses and the Last Hour
would come to them." Reported by Imam Muslim."<br />
<br />
Muhammed (sala Allahu ‘Alihi was-Salaam):<br />
<br />
"How glorious will be the time when Jesus lives among you, and you will
plant a seed on a barren rock and it will sprout; there will be no drought;
vegetation will cover the earth, and a man will be able to sit next to a lion
and feel no harm." Authentic – reported by Ad-Dailamee.<br />
<br />
Jesus will come again, and will marry and have children, and live for 40 years
among us. And soon after he dies, the Day of Judgment will come.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span class="style19">Conclusion: </span></b></span><br />
<br />
This is the empirical belief of the Muslims as regards Jesus.<br />
<br />
Allah (subhanhu wa Ta‘aala) said:<br />
<br />
"And they say: ‘The Most Gracious (Allah) has begotten a son (or offspring
or children).’ Indeed you have brought forth (said) a most terrible, evil
thing. Whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder, and
the mountains fall in ruins, that they ascribe a son (or offspring) to the Most
Gracious!<br />
<br />
But it is not befitting (the Majesty) of the Most Gracious (Allah) that He
should beget a son (or offspring).<br />
<br />
There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto the Most Gracious as
a slave." Marium (19:88-93)<br />
<br />
Allah (Subhanhu wa Ta‘aala) says:<br />
<br />
"No son (or offspring or children) did Allah beget, nor is there any god
along with Him. (If there had been other gods or rivals or sons), behold, each
god would have taken away what he had created, and some (gods) would have tried
to overcome other (gods)! Glorified is Allah above all that they attribute to
Him!" Al-Mu’minoon 23:91<br />
<br />
There are more similarities than differences between Muslims and Christians. In
Islamic law, we have special rules for "the People of the Scripture",
who are similar to us except for some minor differences in major areas of
dogma.<br />
<br />
We conclude by saying:<br />
<br />
"O people of the Book (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just
between us and you, that we worship none by Allah (alone), and that we
associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords
besides Allah." Qur’an – Surat Al-Imran 3: 6<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">[1] </span><span class="style19">Rabb:</span> Allah the
One and the Only Lord of all that exists. He is the only One deserving of
worship. Allah is the Creator, Sustainer, Maintainer, Planner, Giver of
Security, Innovator, etc. Rabb is one of the Names of Allah.<br />
<span style="color: blue;">[2] (</span><span class="style19">SAAW=(Salah Allahu
‘alihi wa Salaam):</span> The Salah (prayers) of Allah upon His Prophet,
Muhammad, is His mentioning of the Prophet’s name and his praise in front of
the angels in the Most High place in the Heavens. Refer to Al-Ahzab 56<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;">[3]</span><span class="style19"> Ih’san:</span> The
highest level of deeds and worship. Perfection in ones worship of Allah (SW).
When you worship Allah, consider yourself as if you see Him and if you cannot
achieve this feeling or attitude, then you must bear in mind that He sees you.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;">[4] </span><span class="style19">Amma Ba‘du</span><span style="color: blue;">: </span>An expression used to separate between introductory
remarks and the main body of the discourse. It translates into: ‘Whatever comes
after.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Jesus (Peace be upon him) Will
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From: "Answers to Common Questions From New
Muslims"<br />
<i>Collected by Ali Abu Lauz</i></div>
<b>Question</b>: <b><span style="color: yellow;">If Jesus (peace be upon him) is alive, shall he
descend at the end of the time and judge among the people while following the
religion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)? What is the evidence for
that? And how can one refutehose people who claim that he will not descend
nor judge among the people?</span></b><br />
<b>Answer:</b> Yes, the Prophet of Allah Jesus son of Mary (peace
be upon him) will descend at the end of time and judge among the people with
justice, following the Law of our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). He will
break the crosses and kill the swine. HE shall put an end to the payment of the
jizya. He will only accept Islam from the people. The People of the Book, the
Jews and Christians, will all believe in him before his death, after he
descends at the end of time. Allah has stated, "There is none of the
People of the book but must believe in him (as only a Messenger of Allah)
before his death. And on the Day of Resurrection, he (Jesus) will be a witness
against them." [an-Nisa, 4:159]<br />
Allah has stated that all of the People of the Book, Jews and Christians,
will believe in Jesus son of Mary (peace be upon him) before his death - that
is, before the death of Jesus. That will be when he descends at the end of time
as a judge and just caller to Islam, as shall be noted in the hadith describing
his descent.<br />
This is the meaning of the words [in the verse quoted above]. The context of
the verse is demonstrating the stance that the Jews took toward Jesus (peace be
upon him) and what they conspired to do against him. It also shows the way of
Allah in saving Jesus and refuting the works of his enemies. The pronouns in
the phrase, "believe in him before his death" must both refer to
Jesus to be consistent with the context and so that the antecedents will be the
same. It is confirmed in numerous authentic hadith, that have come through
numerous chains and have reached the level of mutawatir [narration that has
been reported through so many chains and from so many people that there is no
way to doubt its authenticity], that Allah raised Jesus to the heavens. They
also state that he will descend at the end of time as a just ruler and will
kill the False Messiah [Anti-Christ].<br />
Ibn Taimiya said, after quoting the numerous chains reporting Jesus' being
raised to heaven and his descent at the end of time, "These hadith are
mutawatir from the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). They have been
narrated from Abu Huraira, Ibn Mas`ud, `Uthman ibn Abu al-as, Abu Umama,
al-Nawas ibn Samaan, Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As and Hudahifah ibn Usaid (may
Allah be pleased with all of them). These hadith contain indications concerning
how and where he will descend."<br />
One of those hadith is the following: Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet
(peace be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, soon the
son of Mary will descend upon you as a just judge. He will break the crosses,
kill the swine and will put an end to the jizya. And wealth will spread to the
extent that on one will accept it." Then Abu Huraira said, "Recite if
you wish, "There is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him
(as only a Messenger of Allah) before his death. And on the Day of
Resurrection, he (Jesus) will be a witness against them."" [an-Nisa
4:159] [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]<br />
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In another narration from Abu Huraira, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said,
"How will you be when the son of Mary descends among you and your leader
will be from among yourselves?" [Al-Bukhari & Muslim] It is also
confirmed in the Sahih from Jabir ibn Abdullah that he heard the Prophet (peace
be upon him) say, "A group of people from my Nation will continue to fight
in defense of the truth and remain triumphant until the day of Judgment."
He also said, "Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him), will descend upon
them and their leader will say (to him), 'Come and lead us in prayer.' He will
say, 'No, Allah has honored this Nation by putting some as leaders over
others.'" [Saheeh Muslim]<br />
This hadith demonstrate that he will descend at the end of time and that he
will judge according to the Law of our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
They also show, without doubt, that there will be a leader for this nation at
that time. Furthermore, there is no contradiction between his descending and
the fact that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the seal of the
prophets. This is so because Jesus will not be descending with a new law. To
Allah belongs the decree, first and last. He does what He wills and rules as He
wills. There is none to come after His Rule. He is the All-Mighty, All-Wise.<br />
- Responded by the Permanent Committee, Fataawaa Islamiya, vol.1, p.141<br />
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