Sabi po niya sa isang ISINULAT NIYA at SINIPI naman ng PALAMURANG BALIK ISLAM na si kareembill@yahoo.com:
"What about the Holy Qur'an? Is the Qur'an the Word of God?"
Para po masagot ang tanong na iyan ay ibinigay ni DEEDAT ang mga salitang ito:
"The author of this humble publication has endeavoured to answer this question in a most scientific manner in his book "AL'QUR'AN — The Miracle of Miracles" available absolutely free of charge from the "Centre" on request."
Ang KOPYA po ng LIBRO ni AHMED DEEDAT ay MAKIKITA at MABABASA NATIN sa http://www.jannah.org/articles/qurdeed.html.
BINASA ko po ang SINULAT ni DEEDAT at sa halip na MASAGOT ang TANONG na IBINIGAY NIYA ("Is the Qur'an the Word of God?") ay LALO lang po DUMAMI ang TANONG sa KAISIPAN KO.
BASAHIN po natin ang ILAN sa MGA SINABI ni DEEDAT at SURIIN ang mga ITO.
ITINANONG po nitong si DEEDAT:
"What is a miracle?"
MAGANDANG TANONG po IYAN.
ANO po ang SAGOT ni DEEDAT? Sabi niya,
"An event that appears so inexplicable by the laws of nature, that it is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God." "A person, thing or event that excites admiring awe." "An act beyond human power, an impossibility."
IYAN daw po ang MILAGRO:
1. Isang KAGANAPAN na HINDI MAIPALILIWANAG ng mga BATAS ng KALIKASAN ... SUPERNATURAL IN ORIGIN ... AN ACT OF GOD.
2. Isang TAO o PANGYAYARI na NAG-UUDYOK ng KAGILA-GILALAS na PAGHANGA.
3. Isang GAWAIN na HINDI ABOT ng KAPANGYARIHAN ng TAO, bagay na IMPOSIBLE.
IBINIGAY pa pong HALIMBAWA ni DEEDAT sa MILAGRO ang PAGKABUHAY ng PATAY.
So, para po MASAGOT ang ORIHINAL na TANONG ni DEEDAT ("Is the Qur'an the Word of God?") ay HINANAP ko po sa ISINULAT ni DEEDAT ang MILAGRONG GANYAN para MAKITA KO ang "PATUNAY" na SALITA nga ng DIYOS ang QUR'AN.
IKINALULUNGKOT ko pong SABIHIN na WALANG NAIBIGAY si DEEDAT na SOBRANG KAGILA-GILALAS na PANGYAYARI na MAGPAPAKITA na HIMALA nga ng DIYOS ang QUR'AN.
Sa madaling salita po ay NABIGO si DEEDAT na PATUNAYAN ang SINASABI NIYA.
Pero baka po nagkakamali lang ako.
Puwede po bang KAYO NA ang MAGBASA ng ISINULAT ni DEEDAT para KAYO ang TUMINGIN kung mayroon ngang BAGAY o PANGYAYARI na HINDI MAIPALILIWANAG ng TAO o HINDI ABOT ng KAKAYAHAN ng TAO?
WALA po kasi akong NAKITA sa mga SINABI ni DEEDAT.
Sa punto pong ito ay NAISIP KO na IPINAHIYA ni DEEDAT ang BANAL na AKLAT ng ISLAM.
NAGMALAKI SIYA na MAGPAPAKITA SIYA ng PATUNAY na SALITA ng DIYOS ang QUR'AN pero WALA NAMAN SIYANG NAIPAKITA.
KATUNAYAN po ay HINDI MAN LANG IPINAKITA ni DEEDAT na DIYOS MISMO ang NAGBIGAY ng QUR'AN sa KANILANG PROPETA.
Hindi po ba DAPAT AY IYON ang MALINAW na IPINAKITA ni DEEDAT?
Dahil WALANG IPINAKITA si DEEDAT ay BINIGO rin NIYA ang PROPETA ng ISLAM.
HINDI po KASALANAN o PAGKUKULANG ng QUR'AN o ng PROPETA ng ISLAM ang BAGAY na IYAN. PAGKUKULANG po IYAN ng PROPAGANDISTANG si DEEDAT.
Kaya po sa OPINYON ko ay HINDI KARAPAT-DAPAT at HINDI CREDIBLE si DEEDAT na MAGSALITA para sa QUR'AN at sa PROPETA ng ISLAM.
PINAHINA LANG NIYA ang IMAHEN ng AKLAT ng ISLAM at ang PROPETA ng ISLAM.
WALA po KASI SIYANG MAIPAKITANG MATIBAY na PATUNAY para IANGAT ang QUR'AN at ang PROPETA ng ISLAM.
Sa KABILANG DAKO po ay TINALO si DEEDAT ng MGA PATOTOO na ang BIBLIYA ay TUNAY na SALITA ng DIYOS.
Una po, ang mga NILALAMAN ng BIBLIYA ay DIREKTANG IBINIGAY ng DIYOS sa MGA PROPETA o sa mga SAKSI sa KANYANG MGA SALITA at GAWA.
MALINAW na IPINAKIKITA ng BIBLIYA na PERSONAL na KINAUSAP ng DIYOS ang mga PROPETA sa BIBLIYA. Simulan po natin kay MOISES, kay ISAIAS, kay JOSUE hanggang sa ULTIMONG PROPETA--ang DIYOS ANAK at SALITA ng DIYOS na si HESU KRISTO.
Katunayan po ay GINAWA ni KRISTO ang ULTIMONG MILAGRO na PUWEDENG MANGYARI: SIYA na DIYOS ay NAGKATAWANG TAO, NABUHAY bilang TAO, NAMATAY bilang TAO at NABUHAY NA MULI upang ILIGTAS TAYO.
PURIHIN si KRISTO! PURIHIN ang DIYOS!
MAY HIHIGIT pa po bang MILAGRO RIYAN?
Sa SOBRANG KAGILA-GILALAS po NIYAN ay HINDI MAKAPANIWALA itong si AHMED DEEDAT at itong PALAMURANG BALIK ISLAM na NAGAWA iyan ng DIYOS. Kaya nga po PILIT NILANG SINISIRAAN ang pagka-DIYOS ng PANGINOONG HESUS.
Pero tulad nga po ng sinasabi at PINATOTOTOHANAN ng BIBLIYA: WALANG IMPOSIBLE sa DIYOS. (Matthew 19:26, Mark 10:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27)
Pangalawa, NAPATUNAYAN po na SALITA ng DIYOS ang BIBLIYA dahil MARAMI pong PAHAYAG DIYAN na NATUPAD at NATUTUPAD PA hanggang NGAYON.
Halimbawa po, sinabi sa Mt 24:4-5, 11 at 24 na LILITAW ang MARAMING BULAANG MANGANGARAL upang LINLANGIN at ILIGAW ang mga ALAGAD ng DIYOS.
Hindi po ba LUMITAW itong si DEEDAT at INILIGAW itong PALAMURANG BALIK ISLAM. O di po ba? TUPAD na TUPAD ang SINABI sa BIBLIYA?
MILAGRO po YON.
PAANO NALAMAN ng BIBLIYA na LILITAW si DEEDAT at ILILIGAW itong KRISTIYANO na ngayon ay PALAMURA nang BALIK ISLAM?
HIMALA po KASI IYAN.
MARAMI pa pong PATUNAY na SALITA ng DIYOS ang BIBLIYA pero sa IBANG PAGKAKATAON na po iyon.
Ang ISYU po RITO ay ang PANGAKO ni AHMED DEEDAT na PATUTUNAYAN na SALITA at HIMALA ng DIYOS ang QUR'AN. Isang bagay na BINIGO ni DEEDAT ang BANAL na KASULATAN ng ISLAM.
asalamualaikum warahmutullah wabarakatuhu,
ReplyDeleteBismillaahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem:
AL-QUR`AN, The Miracle of Miracles
Ahmed Deedat
chap1
The first example is from the translation by Yusuf Ali, a muslim. The second is by a christian priest the rev. Rodwell and the last example is by an iraqi Jew, N.J. Dawood.
Unfortunately Thomas Carlyle had no access to any one of these because none of them had seen the light of day in his time. The only one available to him in 1840 was as he said on page 85 of his book under referance - "We also can read the Koran; our translation of it, by sale, is known to be a very fair one."
Taint Is In The Motive:
Carlyle is very charitable to his fellow countryman. The motives of george sale, who pioneered an English translation of the Holy Quran, were suspect. He makes no secret of his antagonism to the holy book of Islam. In his preface to his translation in 1734 he made it known that it was his avowed intention to expose the man Mohammad and his forgery. He records: "who can apprehend any danger from so manifest a forgery?... The protestants alone are able to attack the koran with success; and for them, I trust, providence has reserved the glory of its overthrow." George Sale, And he set to work with his prejudiced translation. You will be able to judge how 'fair' and scholarly george sale was from the very verse which 'struck' (carlyle) 'much!' Compare it with the three example already given by a muslim, a christian and a jew: And of his signs another is, that he had created you , out of yourselves, wives that ye may cohabit with them, and hath put love and compassion between you .
I dont think that george sale was a 'a male chauvinist pig' of his day to describe our mates, wives or spouses as sexual objects. He was only keeping to his promise, which carlyle overlooked. The arabic word which he (sale) perverted is 'li-tas-kunoo' which means to find peace, consolation, composure or tranquility; and not 'cohabit' meaning 'to live together in a sexual relationship when not legally married' (the reader's digest universal dictionary.)
Every word of the Quranic text is meticulously chosen, chiselled and placed by the All-Wise himself. They carry God's 'fingerprint', and are signs of God. And yet, the spirtually jaundiced....
Ask For A Sign:
What signs?? They mean some special kinds of signs or miracles such as their own foolish minds dictate. Everything is possible for God, but God is not going to humour the follies of men or listen to their false demands. He has sent his messenger to explain his signs clearly, and to warn them of the consequences of rejection. Is that not enough? The trend of their demand is generally as follows:
In specific terms they asked that he - Muhammad (pbuh) - 'Put a ladder up to heaven an bring down a book from God in their very sight' - "Then we would believe," they said. Or "ye see the mountain yonder, turn it into gold' - "then we would believe." or 'make streams to gush out in the desert' - "then we would believe."
Now listen to the soft, sweet reasoning of Muhammad(pbuh) against the unreasonable and sceptical demands of the mushriks - "Do I say to you, verily I am an angel? Do I say to you, verily in my hands are the treasures of God? Only, what is revealed to me do I follow." Listen further to the most dignified reply he is commanded by his Lord to give the unbelievers.
Say (O Muhammad): 'The signs (miracles) are indeed with Allah: And most certainly I am only a clear warner.!'
ReplyDeleteIn the following ayah the holy prophet is made to point to the holy Qur`an itself as an answer to their hypocritical demand for some special kind of 'sign' of 'miracle' for which their foolish pagan mentality craved. For indeed all miracles are 'signs'; and it is their disbelief, their scepticism, their lack of faith which motivates their request for a sign. They are asked to - 'look at the Qur`an' and again, 'look at the Qur`an!'
It is not enough for them that we have sent down to thee (O Muhammad) the book(al-Qur`an) which is rehearsed to them? Verily, in it (this perspicuous book) is a mercy and reminder to those who believe. (Qur`an 29:51).
Two Proofs:
As a proof of the divine authorship and the miraculous nature of the Qur`an, two arguments are advanced by the almighty Himself:
1. 'that we' (God Almighty) have revealed to you (O muhammed!) 'the book to you' who art absolutely an unlearned person. An 'ummi' prophet. One who cannot read or write. One who cannot sign his own name. Let thomas carlyle testify regarding the educational qualifications of Muhammad -
'one other circumstance we must not forget: that he had no school learnin; of the thing we call school-learning none at all.'
Moreoever the divine author(God Almighty) himself testifies to the veracity of Muhammed's(pbuh) claim that he could never have composed the contents of the holy Qur`an; he could not have been its author:
And thou (O Muhammad) was not (able) to recite a book before this (book came), nor art thou (able) to transcribe it with thy right hand:
In that case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities have doubted (Qur`an 29:48).
The author of the Qur`an is reasoning with us, that had Muhammad(pbuh) been a learned man, and had he been able to read or write, then in that case the babblers in the market places might have had some justification to doubt his claim that the holy qur`an is God's word. In the event of Muhammed(pbuh) being a literate person, the accusation of his enemies that he had probably copied his book (Qur`an) from the writings of the jews and christians, or that perhaps he had been studying aristotle and plato, or that he must have browsed through the 'Torat,' the 'Zabur' and the 'Injeel' and had rehashed it all in a beautiful language, might have carried some weight. Then, 'the talkers of vanities' might have had a poiint. But even this flimsy pretence has been denied to the unbeliever and the cynic: a point hardly big enough to hang a fly upon!
ReplyDelete2. 'The book'? Yes, the 'book' itself, carries its own evidence proving its divine authorship. Study the book from any angel. Scrutinize it. Why not take up the author's challenge if your doubts are genuine? Do they not consider the qur`an(with care) had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.
Consistency:
It is inconceivable that any human author would remain consistent in this teachings and his preachings for a period of over two decades. From the age of forty, when Muhammad (pbuh) recieved his first call from heaven to the age sixty-three when he breathed his last, for twenty-three years the holy prophet practised and preached Islam. In those twenty-three years, he passed through the most conflicting vicissitudes of life. Any man, during the course of such a mission, would be forced by circumstances to make 'honourable' compromises, and cannot help contradicting himself. No man can ever write the same always, as the message of the holy qur`an is: consistent with itself, throughout! Or is it that the unbelievers objections are merely argumentive, refractory, against their own better light and judgement.? Furthermore, the holy qur`an contains or mentions many matters relating to the nature of the universe which were unknown to man before but which subsequently through evolution and discoveries of Science have fully confirmed - a field where an untutored mind would have most certainly lost in wild and contradictory speculations!
Self-Evident Proof:
Again and again when miracles are demanded from the prophet of God by the cynical and frivolous few, he is made to point to the qur`an - message from high - as 'the miracle.' The miracle or miracles! And men of wisdom, people with literary and spiritual insight, who were honest enough to themselves, recognised and accepted al-qur`an as an a genuine miracle.
Says the holy Qur`an: Nay here are signs self-evident in the hearts of those endowed with knowledge: And none but the unjust reject our signs. (qur`an 29:49).
Say: If the whole of mankind and jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur`an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support.
What is a miracle?
ReplyDeleteI think it is necessary that we have a clear picture of what we mean by a miracle. Here are some definitions:-
"An event that appears so inexplicable by the laws of nature, that it is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God." "A person, thing or event that excites admiring awe." "An act beyond human power, an impossibility."
It is logical that greater the impossibility, greater the miracle. For example, should a person expire before our very eyes and is certified dead by a qualiified medical man, yet later on a mystic or a saint commands the corpse to 'arise!', and to everybody's astonishment the person gets up and walks away , we would label that as a miracle. But if the resurrection of the dead took place after the corpse had been in the mortuary for three days, then we would acclaim this as a greater miracle. And if the dead was made to arise from the grave, decades or centuries after the body had decomposed and rotted away, then in that case we would label it the greatest miracle of them all!
A Common Trait:
It has been a common trait of mankind since time immemorial that whenever a guide from God appeared to redirect their steps into the will and plan of God; they demanded supernatural proofs from these men of God, instead of accepting message on its merit.
For example, when Jesus Christ (pbuh) began to preach to his people - "the children of Israel" - to mend their ways and to refrain from mere legalistic formalism and imbibe the true spirit of the laws and commandments of god, his 'people' demanded miracles from him to prove his bona fides ( his authenicity , his genuineness), as recorded in the christian scriptures:
Then certain of the scribes and the phairsees answered, saying master, we would have a sign ( miracle ) from thee. But he answered and said unto them, "an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign (miracle) and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas ( matthew 12:38-39 holy bible)
Though on the face of it, Jesus (pbuh) refuses to pamper the jews here, in actual fact, he did perform many miracles as we learn from the gospel narratives.
The holy bible is full of supernatural events accredited to the prophets from their lord. In reality all those 'signs' and 'wonders' and 'miracles' were acts of God, but since those miracles were worked through his human agents, we describe them as the miracles of prophets (i.e. Moses or Jesus (pbuh) by those hands they were performed).
Quirk Continues:
ReplyDeleteSome six hundred years after the birth of Jesus(pbuh), Muhammad (pbuh) the messenger of God was born in Makkah in arabia. When he proclaimed his mission at the age of forty, his fellow countrymen, the mushriks of makkah made an identical request for miracles, as had the jews, from their promised Messiah. Text book style, it was as if the arabs had taken a leaf from the christian records. History has a habit of repeating itself!
And they say: why are not signs sent down to him from his lord? (holy Qu`ran 29:50)
SIGNS! WHAT SIGNS!!
"Miracles ? Cries he, what miracles would you have? Are not you yourselves there? God made you 'shaped you out of a little clay.' Ye were small once; a few years ago ye were not at all. Ye have beauty, strength, thoughts, 'ye have compassion on one another.' Old age comes-on you, and grey hairs; your strength fades into feebleness: ye sink down, and again are not. 'Ye have compassion on one another': This struck me much: Allah might have made you having no compassion on one another, how had it been then! this is a great direct though, a glance at first-hand into the very fact of things...." "(On heroes hero-worship and the heroic in history,")by Thomas Carlyle.
"This Struck Me Much"
This, that "ye have compassion on one another", impressed thomas carlyle most from his perusal of an English translation. I persume, there verse that motivated this sentiment is:
1. And among his signs is this, that he created for you mates from amonng yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them. and he has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are signs for those who reflect. (emphasis added) Translation by A Yusuf ALi (Qu`ran 30:21)
2. And one of his signs it is, that he hath created wives for you of your own species that ye may dwell with them, and hath put love and tenderness between you. herein truly are signs for those who reflect (emphasis added) Translation by Rev. J.M. Rodwell(M.A.)
3. By another sign he gave you wives from among yourselves, that ye might live in joy with them, and planted love and kindness into your hearts. surely there are signs in this for thinking men(emphasis added) Translation by N.J. Dawood.
Also check this link...
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check this link also for some clarification bout the issue;
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Deedat/Al-Quran%20-%20The%20Miracle%20of%20Miracles%20%5B%20deedat%5D.pdf
Wala namang kakwenta-kwenta 'yang koran na 'yan eh ultimong propeta 'kuno' nga nila eh walang nagawang himala! Nagasawa lang ng marame pati ng 9 na taong neneng heheheh.. Talaga itong mga balik-islam na ito oh masyadong nagpapaniwala sa malisyosong si Deedat. Hwag kyong mag-alala pagbalik ng Panginoong Jesus, mkakasama n'yo ulit 'yang deedat na 'yan at ang propeta kuno n'yong ewan at huhukuman kayo.
ReplyDeleteSaan kaya ang punta n'yo? heheheh..
Langit, lupa, impyerno? Im, im, impyerno!
Hahahahah
MABUTI po at MAY NAGLAGAY NA ng AKLAT ni AHMED DEEDAT sa BLOG NATIN. HINDI na KAYO MAHIHIRAPANG MAKITA na WALANG NAIPAKITANG KAGILA-GILALAS na MILAGRO itong si DEEDAT.
ReplyDeletePAKI BASA po kung HINDI pa NINYO NABABASA ang SINULAT ni DEEDAT.
KAYO na po ang MAGHANAP kung MAY NABUHAY na PATAY o MAY MILAGRONG HINDI KAYANG GAWIN ng TAO na NAIPAKITA itong si DEEDAT.
SALAMAT po.
miracle ba hanap mo sa Al Quran, eto bigyan kita example,
ReplyDelete(Al quran 54:1-3)Miracle of the splitting of the moon
Al-Qamar
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Prophet Muhammad SAW to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon).[] (1) And if they see a sign, they turn away, and say: "This is continuous magic." (2) They belied (the Verses of Allâh, this Qur'ân), and followed their own lusts. And every matter will be settled [according to the kind of deeds (good deeds will take their doers to Paradise, and similarly evil deeds will take their doers to Hell)]. (3)
(Al quran 17:1)Miracle of the prophet ascension to seventh heaven (Miraj)
Glory to (Allah) Who did take His Servant for Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose precincts We did bless― in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the one Who heareth and seeth (all things). (1)
Al Quran 53:12
Will you then dispute with him (Muhammad SAW) about what he saw [during the Mi'râj: (Ascent of the Prophet SAW to the seven heavens)][] (12)
Al Quran 53:4-18 The revelation to the prophet
It is only a Revelation revealed. (4) He has been taught (this Qur'ân) by one mighty in power [Jibril (Gabriel)] (5) One free from any defect in body and mind, then he (Jibril — Gabriel in the real shap as created by Allah) rose and became stable. (6) While he [Jibril (Gabriel)] was in the highest part of the horizon, (7) Then he [Jibril (Gabriel)] approached and came closer, (8) And was at a distance of two bows' length or (even) nearer, (9) So (Allâh) revealed to His slave [Muhammad SAW through Jibrail (Gabriel) A.S.] whatever He revealed. (10) The (Prophet's) heart lied not in what he (Muhammad SAW) saw. (11) Will you then dispute with him (Muhammad SAW) about what he saw [during the Mi'râj: (Ascent of the Prophet SAW to the seven heavens)][] (12) And indeed he (Muhammad SAW) saw him [Jibril (Gabriel)] at a second descent (i.e. another time). (13) Near Sidrat-ul-Muntaha (a lote-tree of the utmost boundary over the seventh heaven beyond which none can pass). (14) Near it is the Paradise of Abode. (15) When that covered the lote-tree which did cover it! (16) The sight (of Prophet Muhammad SAW) turned not aside (right or left), nor it transgressed beyond the limit (ordained for it). (17) Indeed he (Muhammad SAW) did see, of the Greatest Signs, of his Lord (Allâh). (18)
(Al Quran 105:1-5) Allah protected Mecca from intruders
Al-Fil
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you (O Muhammad (SAW)) not seen how your Lord dealt with the Owners of the Elephant? [The elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka'bah at Makkah]. (1) Did He not make their plot go astray? (2) And He sent against them birds, in flocks, (3) Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay). (4) And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).[] (5)
Marami pang iba bro isama mo pa dyan ang scientific basis gn Quran sa lahat ng aspeto ng buhay at pagkatao natin.
NAPAHIYA na po ang MGA BALIK ISLAM dahil sa PAGIGING PALAMURA ng KAPATID NILA kaya IGINIGIIT nitong isang REACTOR natin na HINDI SIYA ang PALAMURANG BALIK ISLAM.
ReplyDeleteSana nga po ay hindi kayo PALAMURA.
Muslim- di palamura said...
ReplyDeletemiracle ba hanap mo sa Al Quran, eto bigyan kita example,
(Al quran 54:1-3)Miracle of the splitting of the moon
Al-Qamar
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Prophet Muhammad SAW to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon).[] (1) And if they see a sign, they turn away, and say: "This is continuous magic." (2) They belied (the Verses of Allâh, this Qur'ân), and followed their own lusts. And every matter will be settled [according to the kind of deeds (good deeds will take their doers to Paradise, and similarly evil deeds will take their doers to Hell)]. (3)
CENON BIBE:
Una po sa lahat, HINDI po QURAN ang SINISIPI nitong BALIK ISLAM na IKINAHIHIYA ang PALAMURA NIYANG KAPATID.
Ang QURAN po ay TANGING sa ARABIC NASUSULAT at TANONG sa ARABIC MABABASA.
Ang SINASABI nitong BALIK ISLAM na IKINAHIHIYA ang PAGMUMURA ng KAPATID NIYA ay INTERPRETASYON LANG po IYAN ng ISANG SKORAL NILA.
Ngayon, ayon daw po sa INTERPRETASYON ng SKOLAR NILA ay NAHATI raw ang BUWAN.
KAPANI-PANIWALA po ba ang KWENTO ng SKOLAR ng ISLAM na ITO? Ano po sa tingin ninyo?
NAHATI raw po ang BUWAN? NAHATI po ba talaga?
Kung NAHATI po ang BUWAN, HINDI po kaya MAKAKAAPEKTO IYON dito sa DAIGDIG? At HINDI po kaya NARAMDAMAN IYAN ng mga NAKAKAMASID?
Hindi po kaya LUMINDOL NA rito sa DAIGDIG kung NAHATI NGA ang BUWAN?
Kahit SINO pong SIYENTIPIKO ang TANUNGIN NINYO ay MAKAKAAPEKTO po sa MUNDO ang GANYANG URI ng PANGYAYARI.
Kung yung PAGLILINYA o PAGTATAPAT-TAPAT ng mga PLANETA ay SINASABING MAY MASAMANG EPEKTO sa MUNDO, yun pa po kayang PAGKAHATI ng BUWAN ang HINDI MAKAAPEKTO sa DAIGDIG?
Sa madaling salita po, ang ISANG MILAGRO sa KALIKASAN ay MAKAKAAPEKTO sa MARAMING TAO at MARARAMDAMAN ng MARAMING TAO.
Tulad po noong UTUSAN ng PANGINOONG HESUS ang BAGYO para TUMIGIL ITO. (Matthew 8:23-
NAKITA at NARAMDAMAN iyon ng MGA ALAGAD ni HESUS.
Sa madaling salita po, ang TUNAY na MILAGRO ay HINDI MATUTUTULAN ng mga NAKAKAKITA NIYON.
MASASABI po bang MILAGRO ang isang BAGAY kung HINDI IYON NAKITA ng IBA bilang MILAGRO?
Kaya lang naman po SINASABING MILAGRO o HIMALA ang isang BAGAY ay DAHIL NAKITA at NAPATUNAYAN ng IBA na HIMALA IYON.
Ano po sa palagay ninyo?
BALIK ISLAM:
ReplyDelete(Al quran 17:1)Miracle of the prophet ascension to seventh heaven (Miraj)
Glory to (Allah) Who did take His Servant for Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose precincts We did bless― in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the one Who heareth and seeth (all things). (1)
Al Quran 53:12
Will you then dispute with him (Muhammad SAW) about what he saw [during the Mi'râj: (Ascent of the Prophet SAW to the seven heavens)][] (12)
CENON BIBE:
MAY NAKAKITA po ba sa NANGYARING IYAN na IKINUKWENTO ng SKOLAR ng ISLAM?
SINO po ang NAKAKITA?
O KWENTO LANG PO IYAN?
Ang mga MILAGRO ng PANGINOONG HESUS at ng mga TUNAY na PROPETA ay NASAKSIHAN ng MARAMING TAO. HINDI po iyon KWENTO LANG ng ISANG SKOLAR.
Kung titingnan po natin ang mga MILAGRONG GINAWA ng DIYOS sa PAMAMAGITAN ng MGA TUNAY na PROPETA ay PURO po IYON NASAKSIHAN ng IBANG TAO. HINDI lang po IYON KWENTO LANG nung PROPETA.
So, KAYO na po uli ang MAGSABI kung MANINIWALA KAYO sa KWENTO nitong SKOLAR na MUSLIM.
BALIK ISLAM:
ReplyDeleteMarami pang iba bro isama mo pa dyan ang scientific basis gn Quran sa lahat ng aspeto ng buhay at pagkatao natin.
CENON BIBE:
SORRY po kung HINDI AKO MANIWALA sa mga sinasabi ninyo dahil HINDI NAMAN po QURAN ang mga SINIPI NINYO.
Ang SINIPI NINYO ay INTERPRETASYON LANG ng isang SKOLAR na MUSLIM.
NAIPAKITA na po NATIN DITO na ang mga SKOLAR na IYAN ay MARAMING KONTRA-KONTRANG PAHAYAG kaugnay sa SINASABI raw ng QURAN.
MABABASA po ninyo ang ILAN LANG sa MARAMING KONTRA-KONTRA nitong MGA ISKOLAR ng ISLAM sa ARTIKULO nating ITO na may pamagat na Kontra-kontra ng Skolar na Muslim No. 1,
MARAMI pa po NIYAN.
KATUNAYAN po ay SA SUSUNOD na POST ay MAKIKITA po NATIN DOON na PATI IBANG MUSLIM ay KINONTRA ng mga PAHAYAG nitong mga SKOLAR na ITO.
KAYO na po ang BUMASA para MAKITA NINYO ang SINASABI KO.
Cenon said:
ReplyDeleteHindi po kaya LUMINDOL NA rito sa DAIGDIG kung NAHATI NGA ang BUWAN?
Kahit SINO pong SIYENTIPIKO ang TANUNGIN NINYO ay MAKAKAAPEKTO po sa MUNDO ang GANYANG URI ng PANGYAYARI.
Muslim:
May scientific basis po ba kayo sa paratang na pag nahati ang buwan eh magkakalindol? Paki sipi po kung meron. At Sige nga po pakisuri na rin ang kilala nyo kamong Siyentipiko kung ano ang masasabi nya ukol sa pagkakahati ng buwan.
Cenon:
MAY NAKAKITA po ba sa NANGYARING IYAN na IKINUKWENTO ng SKOLAR ng ISLAM?
SINO po ang NAKAKITA?
Muslim:
Sa tingin mo pano ito malalaman ng mga tao kung walang nakakita? Sige nga pakisagot.
Cenon:
SORRY po kung HINDI AKO MANIWALA sa mga sinasabi ninyo dahil HINDI NAMAN po QURAN ang mga SINIPI NINYO.
Muslim:
Di naman kita pinipilit na maniwala eh, kung di man para sa iyo, para ito sa mga taong nag babasa ng blog mo para di sila maloko ng mga salita at interpretasyon mo sa bibliya.
Tama ka hindi Quran ang sinipi ko, ito ang salin ng Quran sa wikang mauunawaan ng mga nag babasa dito. Common sense, bakit ko naman sisipiin ang Quran sa orihinal na teksto nito? Eh di walang nakaintinding Kristyano kung arabic ang sisipiin ko. Eh tagalog na nga lang hindi mo magets eh, i aarabic pa kita.
IIbahin ko na pangalan ko mashadong mahaba yung muslim na di palamura eh. Just call me on my God-given name... Abdullah
Muslim- di palamura said...
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Salamat po sa sagot ninyo pero HINDI po NIYAN NASASAGOT kung BAKIT SINASABI ng MGA ISKOLAR na MUSLIM na "LIBRO" ang IBINIGAY sa PROPETA NINYO samantalang HINDI NAMAN po PALA "LIBRO" ang IBINIGAY sa KANYA?
Muslim:
Pag sinabi bang libro eh dapat automaitc may hard copy na ito? Nagtatanong lang po! Mr Cenon, marami akong "BOOKS" ngayon na wlang hard copy, mostly eh Soft copy ito, kung may pagka unawa kau sa computer terms... Pag wla kang hawak na physical na libro eh hindi n pla libro ito? Ganun po ba. Sana pakilinaw po ang pagkakaunawa ninyo ukol dito. Nung sinabi na mga skolars na "LIBRO" does not mean hard copy ng libro. It just means "libro" na nsa loob ng memorya ng maraming Muslim noong panahon na iyon, or pwede nating icompare as SOFT COPY sa kasalukuyang panahon. In the first place, ang sabi Al Quran ang ibinaba ni ALLAH at hindi Al-Kitab. So malinaw po na sinabi ito sa Quran. Ngayon ano po ang sabi ng mga skolar na muslim, ibinigay ang "libro" na ito sa loob ng 23 yrs. Tanong, Hard copy na libRO nga po ba? Hindi po, "LIBRO PO ITO NA NASA LOOB NG MEMORYA NA MARAMING MUSLIM". Konting lalim po ng pag iisip na mauunawaan nyo po ito. Alam ko kayong mga Katoliko eh malawak ang inyong "imaginary mind" (yung tatlo nagagawa ng isip nyo na maging ISa lang, ung 3 days, naging 2 days. diba?) So sa pagkakataong ito alam kong unawa mo na, ayaw mo nga lamang tanggapin, Ok po?
Isa pa po, pakilinaw po yun heading nyo tungkol sa akin, Hindi ko po ikikahiya ang kapatid kong Muslim na nagmumura sa inyo. sa totoo lang eh talagang kamura-mura ang mga pambabaluktot at panloloko ninyo sa maraming tao. Tanong ko po kayo po ba hindi nag mumura??? o pakitang tao lang kayo dito sa blog nyo? natural kasing makapag mura ang isang tao lalo na kung sobrang "hindi maka unawa ang kausap nyo eh di po ba? Wag sanang sasama ang loob nyo pero ganun po talaga, minsan masakit ang katotohanan. eh yung dios nyo nga pinatay ninyo eh, tapos ic claim nyo na ligtas na kayo.. anong klaseng ideya yan bro?
Pangatlong punto, Arabo lang po ba ang marunong mag arabic? Arabo po pala tawag nyo sa mga kababayan nating Muslim sa Mindanao ano? Pati pala ang mga tao sa Indonesia at Malaysia, Arabo rin ang tawag nyo, at hindi Indonesians at Malaysians. Eh yung Muslim sa Russia??? ARabo rin daw ayon sa paniniwla nyo. Kawawa po talaga ang mga taong may maniniwala sa ganitong uri ng pag iisip. Alam ko po sa "BOBO" may gamot pa pero sa "KATANGAHAN" wala na po. Pasintabi po sa mga batang nag babasa ng blog na ito, patnubay ng magulang ang kailangan!!!
The final Messenger
ReplyDeleteMULTI-FACETED SUCCESSION
Successions are of many kinds like the birthright of the "first-born" as in Jewish law. Or the ascending of the eldest son or daughter to the kingly throne. Or by election, to select a candidate by the vote of the majority. Or Theologically, an appointment by Divine Decree of God's chosen Messengers. Like the call of Abraham, Moses, Jesus or Muhummed (May the Peace and Blessings of God be upon them all) who were appointed or "anointed"2 in consecration to their office.
Muhummed's (pbuh) succession to Jesus Christ (pbuh) is multifaceted.
1. Chronologically, in history as a sequence of event in time.
2. By being Chosen3 by God.
3. In the fulfilment of the prophecies of his predecessors, and but not in the least...
4. By bringing the Guidance of God to perfection ' "For he will Guide you into all Truth." said. Jesus Christ
1. In this book as well as in my other publications, I quote extensively from the Arabic Qur’an not only for blessings or adornment. It presents a golden opportunity for my learned brethren to memorize these quotations with its meaning and to share their knowledge with others.
2 . "ANOINTED:" or appointed; Hebrew word "Messiah." See my book - "Christ in Islam," for fuller explanation.
3. "CHOSEN:" Arabic – Mustafa. A title of the Prophet of Islam.
HISTORICALLY
The Holy Prophet Moses preceded Jesus Christ (pbuh) by some 1300 years and Muhummed (pbuh) succeeded to that high office vacated by Jesus some six centuries later.
It was the 12 of Rabi I., in the year of the Elephant, or the 29th of August 570 of the Christian Era1 that Muhummed the Praiseworthy, to whom all praise is due, was born in the sacred city of Makkah in pagan Arabia. His people the Quraish remembered the year of his birth as the "Era of the Elephant", because just two months before the birth of the child Abraha al-Ashram, the Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen had attacked the sacred sanctuary at Makkah at the head of his troops riding a huge African elephant. A terrifying sight never to be erased from their memory and a still more shocking end to the invasion — the miraculous destruction of Abraha and his army as recorded in Sura Fil or the Elephant —
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
ReplyDeleteDid He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
And He sent against them flights of Birds,
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw,(of which the corn) has been eaten up
(SURA FIL) Holy Quran 105:1-5
1. Always use A.C. (After Christ) or C.E. (Christian Era) and not A.D. as Muslims often do unthinkingly.
GOD'S OWN STANDARDS
God Almighty chooses His Own Messengers, He uses His Own Standards although we may not always understand the wisdom of it. Paul cries the anomaly -
For the Jews require a sign (miracles to convince) and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
(HOLY BIBLE) I Corinthians 1: 22
But worldly wise as Paul was, he found that his wisdom was "a stumbling-block" to the Jews and "foolishness" to the Greeks.
God chose Moses (pbuh) a man who was a fugitive from justice and a stutterer. The Holy Bible calls him a man with "uncircumcised lips." (Exodus 6: 12).
Despite his difficulties when commissioned to confront Pharaoh, the greatest tyrant of the age, Moses (pbuh) cries out to the God of Mercy —
(Moses) said: "O my Lord! expand for me my breast;" 1
Make my task easy for me;
"And remove the impediment from my speech,
"So that they may understand what I have to say:
"And give me a Minister from my family,
"Aaron, my brother; "Add to my strength through him, "And make him share my task:
"That we may celebrate Thy praise without stint,
"And remember Thee without stint:
'For Thou art He that (ever) regardeth us. (God) said: "Granted is thy prayer, 0 Moses!"
(SURA TA'HA) Holy Qur'an 20:25-56
1. Meaning – give me courage, make me bold.
WHY "SUPPOSED"?
Then comes Jesus (pbuh) who was chosen by God. According to Christian teachings, he was a carpenter and the son of a carpenter, with a dubious genealogy as recorded in the Gospels —
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed)1 the son of Joseph...
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3: 25
ReplyDeleteAcknowledged today by a thousand million Muslims that Jesus Christ (pbuh) was born miraculously — without any male intervention; the followers of Christ created two separate genealogies for a man who had no genealogy. Between the Gospels of Matthew and Luke they give this mighty Messenger of God sixty-six fathers and grandfathers. And of these two separate lists only one name is common to these two lists and that is of Joseph the Carpenter, who does not Fit in anywhere because, as Luke records above, he was only the "SUPPOSED" father of Jesus. 2
1. The words you see here in brackets are the exact replica from the King James and the Roman Catholic Versions of the phrase – "(as was supposed)" brackets and all.
2. Consult – "Is the Bible God’s Word?" for a fuller explanation of these anomalies.
EVEN BISHOPS DOUBT
In a "SHOCK SURVEY OF ANGLICAN BISHOPS" in June 1984 it was revealed that 31 of their 39 Bishops thought that "Christ's miracles, the virgin birth and the resurrection might not have happened exactly as described in the Bible."
In deference to the Bishops of the Church of England (the "Anglicans") the Church of Scotland most respectfully omitted any reference to the "Virgin Birth" from its most recent publication "A STATEMENT OF FAITH." The topic of the miraculous conception of Jesus (pbuh) is getting increasingly hotter for Western Christianity to handle as you see here:
AND GOD CHOSE JESUS (PBUH)
Jesus Christ (pbuh) though spiritually rich in wisdom, light and truth; philosophised light-heartedly about the beggars of the world, when he said:
There came unto him (Jesus) a woman having an albaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head...
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold For much, and given to the poor.
... he (Jesus) said unto them ... For ye have the poor always with you, but (poor) me ye have not always.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 26: 7-11
But when destitution stared him in the face. When poverty, penury and need touched his own dear self; he cried pathetically:
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man (referring to himself) hath not where to lay his head.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 8: 20 also repeated in Luke 9: 58
And yet God chose him (Jesus pbuh): Unique and inscrutable are Thy ways O Lord!
M-U-S-T-A-F-A THE CHOSEN ONE
ReplyDeleteIt is He Who sent amongst the unlettered a messenger from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom, — although they had been, before, in manifest error;-
(SURA JUMUA) Holy Qur'an 62: 2
Amazing as it may seem, I am not amazed anymore! For this is His way — He chooses an Ummi 1 non-literate Prophet for an Ummi illiterate nation.
"A POOR SHEPHERD PEOPLE, ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD: A HERO-PROPHET WAS SENT DOWN TO THEM WITH A WORD THEY COULD BELIEVE: SEE, THE UNNOTICED BECOMES WORLD-NOTABLE, THE SMALL HAS GROWN WORLD-GREAT; WITHIN ONE CENTURY AFTERWARDS, ARABIA IS AT GRENADA (Spain) ON THIS HAND, AT DELHI (India) ON THAT; -GLANCING IN VALOUR AND SPLENDOUR AND THE LIGHT OF GENIUS, ARABIA SHINES THROUGH LONG AGES OVER A GREAT SECTION OF THE WORLD. BELIEF IS GREAT, LIFE-GIVING. THE HISTORY OF A NATION BECOMES FRUITFUL, SOUL ELEVATING, GREAT, SO SOON AS IT BELIEVES. THESE ARABS, THE MAN MAHOMET, AND THAT ONE CENTURY, -IS IT NOT AS IF A SPARK HAD FALLEN, ONE SPARK, ON A WORLD OF WHAT SEEMED BLACK UNNOTICEABLE SAND; BUT LO, THE SAND PROVES EXPLOSIVE POWDER, BLAZES HEAVEN HIGH FROM DELHI TO GRENADA! I SAID, THE GREAT MAN WAS ALWAYS AS LIGHTNING OUT OF HEAVEN; THE REST OF MEN WAITED FOR HIM LIKE FUEL, AND THEN THEY TOO WOULD FLAME."
Thus concluded the speech of Thomas Carlyle, one of the greatest thinkers of the past century. It was Friday, the 8th of May 1840. His theme — "The Hero as Prophet" His audience: were Anglicans — English Christians.
1. UMMI: "Unlettered." "One other circumstance we must not forget: that he had no school-learning; of the thing we call school-learning; none at all." Thomas Carlyle in his "HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP"
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
ReplyDeleteGod chooses His Messengers and God chooses His People, In the realm of the Spirit no nation was as favoured as the Jews and yet Moses (pbuh) is made to bewail against his own people —
Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Deutronomy 9: 24
In this last will and testament of Moses (pbuh) the Israelites frustrate their "meek and gentle" Messenger who is forced to rail against their continual stubborn resistance and arrogant attitudes to God's guidance —
For I knew thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the lord; and how much more after my death?
(HOLY BIBLE) Deutronomy 51:27
Alas how true! I am not going to philosophise on God's choice. But in the very next chapter the fire of God's anger is kindled to a blaze and He decries the Jews -
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they (the Jews) have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are Not A People; I will provoke them to anger with a Foolish Nation.
(HOLY BIBLE) Deutronomy 32:211
1. Emphasis are mine.
JEWS SUBSTITUTED
ReplyDeleteAnyone with a modicum of Scriptural knowledge will be able i guess who in the eyes of these arrogant, racist Jews is "not-a people" — a non-entity and "a foolish nation" if not the Ishmaelite cousins — the Arabs who in the words of Thomas Carlyle have been "ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERT SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD."!?
THE ARABS. Alexander the Great passed them by: the Persian. passed them by; the Egyptians passed them by; and the Roman; passed them by. It would have been an absolute liability for any nation to conquer and colonise them. But the Creator did not pass them by. He picked them up from the depths of darkness and transformed them into torch-bearers of light and learning to the world. "I will move them "I will move them (the Jews) to Jealousy"1 This jealousy is a cultivated sickness. Remember, Sarah and Hagar the two wives of Abraham (pbuh) — the Friend of God. The jealousy of Sarah was bequeathed to her children and on to nations and tribes yet unborn.
1. If the Romans or the Greeks had displaced the Jews as the "Chosen of God" then the envy would not have been as acute or as intolerable to the Jews.
Not so long ago I read a book on the discovery of medicine written by a Jewish medical man. I can unfortunately not remember the name of the author and failed to retrace the book. However, the wordings of the tribute paid by this Jewish author to his Semetic (Arab) cousins have made an indelible impression on my mind. And I quote from memory:
"GOATHERDS AND CAMEL DRIVERS SITTING ON THE THRONE OF THE CAESARS"
Full of spite, venom and sarcasm, but how true! This is what God did and always does. He honours whom He wills. This is what He does to show His Mighty Hand (Power)?
IT IS SURELY ONE OF THE GREATEST MIRACLES OF HISTORY THAT FROM THE BACKWATER OF ARABIA THERE SHOULD HAVE EXPLODED A GROUP OF MEN, COMPANIONS OF A PROPHET, WHO WITHIN THE SPACE OF A FEW BRIEF DECADES WERE ABLE TO CREATE A MAGNIFICENT CIVILISATION EXTENDING FROM THE PYRENEES TO THE GATES OF CHINA
Abdul Wadod Shalabi in "Islam Religion of Life:"
THE LAST WARNING
The foregoing is the exact fulfilment of Jesus Christ's (pbuh), (the last of the great Jewish prophets) own prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race in the spiritual guidance of man. In the words of the Master himself —
Therefore I say unto you (Jews), The Kingdom of God shall be taken away from you (Jews), and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 21: 45 1
1. "Kingdom of God:" The honour, the privilege of being God’s chosen people to guide mankind – "Ye (Jews) shall be unto me (God Almighty) a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." (Exodus 19:6) This grand commission ended with Jesus (pbuh).
CHAPTER TWO
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JUST ONE FULL PROPHECY1
1 This site only expounds a single prophecy from the New Testament. See "What the Bible says about Muhammmed (pbuh)" for prophecies from the Old Testemant.
A COMMON TRAIT
Just a cursory glance, a rapid reading, a hurried look at the previous verse will satisfy the Muslim that Jesus Christ (pbuh) did indeed prophesy the advent of Muhummed (pbuh), the Messenger of God. The Muslim is puzzled at the stubbornness, vanity and tunnel vision of the Christian which prevents him from seeing his own inner light and listening to his conscience so as not to recognise the obvious.
The Christian in turn is puzzled at the hard-hearted obstinacy of the Jews, a nation endowed with such creative genius, which, despite a thousand and one prophecies in their own Bible (the Old Testament) regarding the coming of the "Messiah," are totally incapable of recognising their lord and "saviour." Are they both somewhat blind?
No! Neither the Jews nor the Christians are necessarily impervious to truth. The trouble is that we all pick up our prejudices from childhood. The American call it being "programmed"
Simply reading the verses or listening to lectures and getting that smug satisfaction of being in the know will not help spreading the truth. This is the age of the "EVERYMAN." 1 The age of the professionals is over. It is the duty of every Muslim — man, woman or child to get involved. Each according to his or her capacity. Memorize the above verse with its meaning as well as the quotations preceding and those that follow so that you may feel equipped to share our Deen with non-Muslims. There are no short-cuts to Da'wah (propagation)!
1. "EVERYMAN:" is a new series of books to equip everyman or woman to learn an art or trade such as – plumbing, pottery, woodwork, etc by studying at home.
PRODUCE YOUR PROOF!
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is not the first time you are reading or might have heard about the prophecies in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures regarding the advent of the last and final Messenger of God — Muhummed (pbuh) the Mercy unto all mankind. And perhaps you have at times made some half-hearted and skimpy efforts at suggesting that our Nabi-e-Kareem was prophesised in the Holy Bible. But when proof was demanded, you simply not able to, because you had not done any home work Remember, there is no substitute for hard work. I believe what I say and I practise what I preach. Insha-Allah!
I have personally memorized various selections from the Bible in a dozen different languages, including Arabic and Hebrew. Not for show but because of the openings these snippets of religion create for me in propagating our faith to various language groups. Languages are the keys to people's hearts.
IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
Notwithstanding many assurances, I got stranded in Cairo for lack of an entry visa. A kind gentleman from the AI-Azhar, who was trying to help us obtain the relevant documents, got frustrated with the delay and in order to attend to his Friday prayers, handed me and my son Yousuf to a young Egyptian lady, well-groomed in Western attire.
After much effort and time she returned to us with the good news. "Forty dollars," she said. I asked, "For what?" "The visas," she answered. Twenty dollars for me and twenty for my son. "But I am a guest of the Government," I insisted. She said that she knew nothing about it, so I smiled and paid.
From the lady's speech and deportment, I had sensed that she was well-educated and a lady of culture, so undauntedly I asked her again what her name was in my broken Arabic. However, her name was too novel for me to remember. I asked her further: "Are you a Muslim?" She said, "No, I am an Egyptian Christian." This was the opening I was waiting for. I began, "Do you know that before Jesus Christ departed from this world, he told his disciples," and I started to quote, now in meticulous Arabic, a verse from the Arabic Bible, (see next page), which I had memorized for opportunities just like this particular one.
THE TRANSLATION
I had no need to translate the above Arabic to her, because as an Arab she understood the verse perfectly. But for the benefit of those who do not know Arabic I give you its exact equivalent from the English Bible, which I had also taken the trouble to memorize in my spare time. You can create that spare time also if you have true love for Allah's Deen and wish to share it with others.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16:7
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I implore my brethren who can read the Arabic quotation to memorize it together with the English translation above and create opportunities for using it. Learn the verses in conjunction
with other languages that you know. There will be a definite all-round improvement in your fluency, and proficiency in preaching Islam to other people.
The word "Comforter" above is "al-Moouzzi" in Arabic. I asked the lady, "Who is the "al-Moouzzi" of this prophecy?" She said, " do not know," She was honest She did not beat around the bush. So I said that we are told in the Holy Qur'an that Jesus Christ (pbuh) had told his disciples —
I continued that, *This Ahmed is another name for Muhummed, and Muhummed is Moouzzi!" "Very funny," she exclaimed, "these Egyptians" (meaning the Muslim Egyptians) "take us to the cinema, they take us" (meaning Christian women) "to the dance, but no one ever tells us anything about this Moouzzi!" Through her Allah soobha'nahoo-wa-ta'aalaa, armed me with a fourteen-pound SledgeHammer before leaving Cairo Airport. Alhumdo'lillah! And, did I use that SledgeHammer!!
An integrated explanation of Comforter/Moouzzi of John 16: 7 and Ahmed/Muhummed of The Holy Qur’an 61: 6 will be slotted in place when explaining the Ayat (the verse) heading this chapter.
BIBLICAL CONFIRMATION
Remember, that in the sixth century of the Christian Era, when Muhummed (pbuh) was chanting God's words which was systematically "put into his mouth," ' the Arabic Bible had not yet been translated. He could never have known that he was fulfilling and confirming the utterances of his predecessor Jesus (pbuh) to the letter.
ONLY FOR THE ISRAELITES
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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying,
Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, 1 and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go ye rather unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 10:5-6
1 Gentiles: non-Jews
NOT FOR DOGS
And behold a woman of Canaan 1 came ... and cried unto him saying, have mercy on me ... my daughter is seriously possessed with a devil.
But he answered her not a word.
And his disciples came and begged him, saying. Send her away: for she crieth after us.
But he answered and said, I am Not Sent But Unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.
But she came and knelt before him, saying. Lord, help me.
But he answered her and said, It is Not Fair To Take The Children's Bread And Cast It To The Dogs. 2
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 15:22-26
1. Mark 7.26 says that the woman was a Greek.
2. Meaning non-Jews.
It goes to the credit of this Jewish prophet, that he practised what he preached. In his lifetime he never converted a single Gentile (non-Jew). And of his hand-picked elect (his twelve disciples), he made sure that they belonged to his tribe so that his other prophecy might Find fulfilment: "when the son of man (Jesus pbuh referring to himself) shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye (the disciples) also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19: 28).
NO NEW RELIGION
2 "LAW": The word in the Arabic text here is "Taurat." (Heb. "Torah.")
The Messiah was no mealy-mouthed Messenger among the Jews. Like his predecessors Amos and Ezekiel or Isaiah and Jeremiah, he was trenchant in his condemnation of Jewish formalism and hypocrisies. His novel approach and militant preaching had created certain misgivings amongst the religious hierarchy. The Scribes and the Pharisees came to him again and again to test him as to his bona fides (His Genuineness).
To allay their suspicions that he had brought no new fangled religion, and that his was the confirmation of all the teachings that had gone before him. He says —
Think not that I am come to destroy the law (Hebrew - Torah), or the prophets: I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law (Torah), till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
HOLY BIBLE Matthew 5: 17-19
Compare this phrase "CONFIRMING THE LAW (WHICH CAME) BEFORE ME" - these seven words at the beginning of this section with the three verses of Matthew above, and you will not fail to note that there is no wordiness in the Qur'anic diction. It conveys God's Message concisely, with clarity and precision.
ReplyDelete"THE FATHER1 OF TRUTH CHOOSES HIS OWN PROPHETS, AND HE SPEAKS TO THEM IN A VOICE STRONGER THAN THE VOICE OF THUNDERY
Sayed Amir Ali in "The Spirit of Islam. "
1. FATHER: The use of the word "Father" in relation to God was cut out from Islam owing to the perversion of the idea among Christians.
The Qur'an had come to Confirm, Correct and Complete Divine Revelation, or whatever was left of it in unworthy hands.
THE GOOD NEWS
3.I will not apologise, nor am I called upon to apologise for reproducing here verbatim (a word for word) commentary on the word "AHMED," from ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI'S English translation. But before I do that permit me to pay a fitting tribute to the KING FAHD HOLY QUR'AN PRINTING COMPLEX in Al-Madinah AI-Munawarah which is turning out millions of Holy Qur'ans in many different languages.
Their reason for using YUSUF ALI as a base for their reproduction is summed up in these words:
"A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS HAVE IN THE PAST VENTURED TO TRANSLATE THE QUR'AN, BUT THEIR WORKS HAVE GENERALLY BEEN PRIVATE ATTEMPTS, GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THEIR OWN PREJUDICES. IN ORDER TO PRODUCE A RELIABLE TRANSLATION FREE FROM PERSONAL BIAS, A ROYAL DECREE (No, 19888, DATED 16/8/1400 AH) WAS ISSUED BY THE CUSTODIAN OF THE TWO HOLY MOSQUES, KING FAHD IBN ABDUL AZIZ, AT THAT TIME THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER - THE TRANSLATION OF THE LATE USTADH ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI WAS CONSEQUENTLY CHOSEN FOR ITS DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS, SUCH AS A HIGHLY ELEGANT STYLE, A CHOICE OF WORDS CLOSE TO THE MEANING OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT, ACCOMPANIED BY SCHOLARLY NOTES AND COMMENTARIES."
The Presidency of Islamic Researches, lfta, Call and Guidance
ReplyDeleteOut of over six thousand profound explanatory notes in Yusuf Ali's translation, the following is just one of three explaining the prophecy in the words of Jesus (pbuh) regarding the advent of Muhummed (pbuh) the Messenger of God.
Note No: 5438:
"Ahmed", or "Muhummed", the Praised one, is almost a translation of the Greek word Periclytos. In the present Gospel of John 14:16, 15:26, and 16:7, the word "Comforter" in the English version for the Greek word "Paracletos", which means "Advocate", "one called to the help of another, a kind friend", rather than "Comforter". Our doctors contend that Paracletos is a corrupt reading for Periclytos and that in the original saying of Jesus there was a prophecy of our holy Prophet Ahmed by name. Even if we read Paraclete, it would imply to the Holy Prophet, who is "a Mercy for all creatures" (H.Q. 21:107) and "most kind and merciful to the Believers" (H.Q. 9:128) See also note 416 to H.Q. 3:81.
4.Thus concludes (Ayat) verse 6 of (Sura) chapter 61 under discussion. "The Prophet of Islam was foretold in many ways; and when he came he showed forth many Clear Signs, for his whole life from beginning to end was one vast miracle. He fought and won against odds. Without learning from men he taught the highest wisdom. He melted hearts that were hard, and he strengthened hearts that were tender and required support. In all his sayings and doings men of discernment could see the working of God's hand;" yet the sceptics called it SORCERY — jugglery — magic!
FORGER AND JUGGLER! NO, NO! THIS GREAT FIERY HEART, SEETHING, SIMMERING LIKE A GREAT FURNACE OF THOUGHTS, WAS NOT A JUGGLER'S.
Thomas Carlyle, page 88 in his book -"Heroes and Hero-worship"
And they called his miraculous fulfilment of prophecy magic, Jugglery, enchantment — that which became the most solid fact of human history — Islam!
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeletePag sinabi bang libro eh dapat automaitc may hard copy na ito? Nagtatanong lang po! Mr Cenon
CENON BIBE:
Kung KONTEKSTO noong 600 AD ang PAG-UUSAPAN ay OPO, HARD COPY po IYAN.
Noon po KASI ay WALA PANG KONSEPTO ng LIBRO na "DIGITAL."
Siguro naman po ay COMMON SENSE na lang IYAN at HINDI NA NINYO ITINANONG.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeletemarami akong "BOOKS" ngayon na wlang hard copy, mostly eh Soft copy ito, kung may pagka unawa kau sa computer terms... Pag wla kang hawak na physical na libro eh hindi n pla libro ito?
CENON BIBE:
NASAAN po ang "BOOKS" NINYO na IYAN? Nasa COMPUTER PO BA NINYO?
NOON PO BANG IBIGAY daw ang "BOOK" sa PROPETA NINYO ay MAY COMPUTER NA? MAY KONSEPTO na po ba NOON ng "SOFT COPY" na LIBRO?
Kung MAYROON po ay PAKI PATUNAYAN po RITO para MALAMAN ng IBA NATING TAGASUBAYBAY.
Pero FRANKLY SPEAKING, tila po HINDI NINYO NAUUNAWAAN ang mga SINASABI NINYO.
SORRY pero IYAN ANG MALINAW na LUMALABAS.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteIt just means "libro" na nsa loob ng memorya ng maraming Muslim noong panahon na iyon, or pwede nating icompare as SOFT COPY sa kasalukuyang panahon.
CENON BIBE:
Kahit po sa PANAHON ngayon ay NEVER pong TINAWAG na "libro" ang NASA ISIP LANG. Kaya WALA pong BATAYAN ang DEFINITION NINYO.
MALI rin po ang INIISIP NINYO na ang NASA ISIP lang ay "SOFT COPY" na. WALA pong GANYAN.
Noon naman pong PANAHON na IBINIGAY daw ang "libro" sa PROPETA NINYO ay WALA pa ring mga KONSEPTO ng "SOFT COPY."
Pero KUNG MAY NALALAMAN PO KAYONG HINDI ALAM ng IBA ay PAKI SHARE po RITO para MALAMAN ng LAHAT.
WELCOME po RITO ang LAHAT ng INPUT na MAIBIBIGAY NINYO.
Anyway, MALINAW po na NILIKOT at KINORAP ng mga SCHOLARS na MUSLIM ang KATOTOHANAN nung SABIHIN NILA sa INTERPRETASYON NILA na "LIBRO" ang IBINIGAY sa PROPETA NINYO.
MISMO po KAYO ay MAGPAPATUNAY na KASINUNGALINGAN ang SINABI ng mga SCHOLAR NINYO kaugnay riyan.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteIn the first place, ang sabi Al Quran ang ibinaba ni ALLAH at hindi Al-Kitab. So malinaw po na sinabi ito sa Quran.
CENON BIBE:
ANO pong SURAH ang TINUTUKOY NINYO na "HINDI AL KITAB" o "THE BOOK" ang BINANGGIT?
Heto po ang mga INTERPRETASYON ng mga SCHOLAR NINYO na "THE BOOK" daw ang IBINIGAY sa PROPETA NINYO. Galing po ito kay MUHAMMAD MOHSIN KHAN.
1. Surah 2:2 "This is THE BOOK ..."
2. Surah 2:89 "And when there came to them (the Jews), A BOOK (this Qur'an) from Allah ..."
3. Surah 2:121 "Those (who embraced Islam from Bani Israel) to whom We gave the book [the Taurat (Torah)] [or those (Muhammad's صلى الله عليه وسلم companions) to whom We have given THE BOOK (the Qur'an)] recite it ..."
4. Surah 2:176 "That is because Allah has sent down THE BOOK (the Qur'an) in truth."
5. Surah 3:3 "It is He Who has sent down THE BOOK (the Qur'an) to you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)..."
IILAN pa lang po IYAN na SINASABI ng SCHOLAR NINYO na "BOOK" daw ang IBINIGAY sa PROPETA NINYO. NAPAKALINAW po na "BOOK" ang SINASABI sa mga INTERPRETASYON NILA na IYAN.
So, SORRY dahil MALI po ang SINASABI NINYO.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteNgayon ano po ang sabi ng mga skolar na muslim, ibinigay ang "libro" na ito sa loob ng 23 yrs. Tanong, Hard copy na libRO nga po ba? Hindi po, "LIBRO PO ITO NA NASA LOOB NG MEMORYA NA MARAMING MUSLIM".
CENON BIBE:
TAKE NOTE lang po, DOON sa INTERPRETASYON ng mga SCHOLAR NINYO ay HINDI NAKA-ENCLOSE sa QUOTATION MARKS (" ") ang BOOK.
NEVER pong TINAWAG na ang NASA MEMORYA ng MGA MUSLIM ay "LIBRO."
NOON pong PANAHON ng PROPETA NINYO ay "HARD COPY" LANG ang LIBRO. HINDI "SOFT COPY" at LALONG HINDI yung NASA ISIP LANG.
SORRY pero WALA pong BATAYAN ang SINASABI NINYO.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteKonting lalim po ng pag iisip na mauunawaan nyo po ito. Alam ko kayong mga Katoliko eh malawak ang inyong "imaginary mind" (yung tatlo nagagawa ng isip nyo na maging ISa lang, ung 3 days, naging 2 days. diba?)
CENON BIBE:
MAAYOS at MATINO po KAMING MAG-ISIP na MGA KATOLIKO.
HINDI po KAMI ang MAY "IMAGINARY MIND."
Tingnan ninyo, HINDI po KAMI ang NAG-IIMAGINE na ang LIBRO ay yung NASA ISIP pa lang ng TAO.
HINDI rin po KAMI ang NAG-IIMAGINE na MAY SOFT COPY NA noong PANAHON ng PROPETA NINYO.
KAYO po ang NAG-IIMAGINE NIYAN.
Yung pong sa 3 DAYS and 3 NIGHTS ay MALINAW po ang PALIWANAG NAMIN DIYAN.
Ang PALIWANAG NAMIN DIYAN ay BATAY sa TAMANG KAALAMAN NAMIN sa HISTORY at KULTURA ng mga HUDYO na GUMAMIT ng "IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION" na IYAN.
KAYO LANG po ang NAG-IIMAGINE na LITERAL YAN.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteIsa pa po, pakilinaw po yun heading nyo tungkol sa akin, Hindi ko po ikikahiya ang kapatid kong Muslim na nagmumura sa inyo. sa totoo lang eh talagang kamura-mura ang mga pambabaluktot at panloloko ninyo sa maraming tao.
CENON BIBE:
Ayang nariyan, okay na po ba?
Wala pong PROBLEMA kung IPINAGMAMALAKI pa NINYO ang PALAMURA NINYONG KAPATID.
TALAGA pong MAGMUMURA NA LANG KAYO dahil WALA KAYONG MAISAGOT at WALANG MAITUTOL na MATINO e.
NASAAN po ang PAMBABALUKTOT KO? PAKI TUKOY NINYO.
Yang KAPATID NINYO WALANG MAIPAKITA, WALANG MAISAGOT at WALANG MAITUTOL kaya NAGMUMURA NA LANG e.
KAMI pong MGA KATOLIKO ay HINDI TINUTURUANG MAGMURA. Sa inyo po yata ay OKAY LANG MAGMURA, di po ba?
Bweno, SA INYO PO IYON. IPINAGPAPASALAMAT KO na HINDI KAMI BALIK ISLAM.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteTanong ko po kayo po ba hindi nag mumura??? o pakitang tao lang kayo dito sa blog nyo? natural kasing makapag mura ang isang tao lalo na kung sobrang "hindi maka unawa ang kausap nyo eh di po ba?
CENON BIBE:
Kung NAKAKAPAGMURA po ako ay HINDI KO PO SINASADYA. NABUBUYO LANG o NABIBIGLA.
INIHIHINGI ko po IYAN ng PAUMANHIN sa LAHAT ng MAAARING NASASAKTAN.
HINDI po KASI NATURAL sa AMING MGA KATOLIKO ang MAGMURA. HINDI po KAMI TINUTURUANG MAGMURA.
Hindi po TULAD SA INYO na AYON MISMO sa INYO ay "natural kasing makapag mura."
Kung NASA PAGKATAO na NINYO ang PAGMUMURA ay WALA po KAMING MAGAGAWA RIYAN. Kaya nga HINDI NINYO IKINAHIHIYA ang PAGMUMURA ng KAPATID NINYO, di po ba?
Sa mga KRISTIYANO ay BAWAL po ang PAGMUMURA.
Sabi nga ng PANGINOONG HESUS sa Matthew 5:22:
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca, ' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Dahil po riyan ay IKINUKUMPISAL ko po sa PARI at INIHIHINGI rin ng TAWAD sa DIYOS kung NAKAPAGMUMURA AKO.
Ang NAGMUMURA po KASI ay NAGPAPADALA sa UDYOK ng DEMONYO.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeleteeh yung dios nyo nga pinatay ninyo eh, tapos ic claim nyo na ligtas na kayo.. anong klaseng ideya yan bro?
CENON BIBE:
WALA lang po KAYONG ALAM sa mga AKTWAL na GINAWA ng DIYOS.
LUMITAW ang RELIHIYON NINYO MAKARAAN ng 600 TAON mula nang MAGKATAWANG TAO ang DIYOS at MAG-ALAY ng BUHAY NIYA para sa KALIGTASAN ng TAO.
HINDI NINYO ALAM ang mga TUNAY na PANGYAYARI dahil WALA SA INYO NAKASAKSI sa mga AKTWAL na mga SINABI at GINAWA ng DIYOS.
Iyan ang DAHILAN kung bakit MAY MALI KAYONG AKALA na "PINATAY" NAMIN ang DIYOS.
HINDI po NAMIN SIYA PINATAY. NAG-ALAY SIYA ng KANYANG BUHAY para ILIGTAS KAMI.
DIYAN po KAMI NAKATITIYAK na LIGTAS KAMING mga KRISTIYANO. DIYOS KASI MISMO ang NAGLIGTAS sa AMIN.
Sa INYO po, KAHIT KAUSAP ay HINDI PO KAYO KINAUSAP ng DIYOS?
PINAGPALA po TALAGA KAMI dahil HINDI LANG KAMI KINAUSAP, INILIGTAS pa KAMI ng DIYOS.
BALIK ISLAM na di raw PALAMURA:
ReplyDeletePangatlong punto, Arabo lang po ba ang marunong mag arabic? Arabo po pala tawag nyo sa mga kababayan nating Muslim sa Mindanao ano? Pati pala ang mga tao sa Indonesia at Malaysia, Arabo rin ang tawag nyo, at hindi Indonesians at Malaysians. Eh yung Muslim sa Russia??? ARabo rin daw ayon sa paniniwla nyo. Kawawa po talaga ang mga taong may maniniwala sa ganitong uri ng pag iisip. Alam ko po sa "BOBO" may gamot pa pero sa "KATANGAHAN" wala na po.
CENON BIBE:
TALAGA po bang MARUNONG MAG-ARABIC ang mga binanggit ninyo?
Sa MINDANAO po ba ay BIHASA sa ARABIC ang mga TAO? Ganoon din po ba sa INDONESIA, MALAYSIA at RUSSIA?
NAKAKAINTINDI at NAKAUUNAWA po ba SILA ng ARABIC?
PAANO po KUNG HINDI? AAMININ po ba NINYO na NAGSISINUNGALING KAYO?
TAMA po KAYO na ang KABOBOHAN ay NAGAGAMOT, pero ang KATANGAHAN ay HINDI.
So, ALIN po KAYO sa DALAWA?
PALAMURANG BALIK ISLAM:
ReplyDeleteMuhummed's (pbuh) succession to Jesus Christ (pbuh) is multifaceted.
CENON BIBE:
MAGANDA po at INILAGAY nitong BALIK ISLAM ang mga ITO sa ATING BLOG para po MASURI NATIN.
SIMULAN po NATIN:
CLAIM nitong BALIK ISLAM na the PROPHET of ISLAM SUCCEEDED JESUS.
THIS is BASELESS.
THERE is NO PROPHECY in the BIBLE that THERE WOULD BE ANYONE SUCCEEDING JESUS except THOSE SENT by JESUS.
In fact, JESUS said that THE ONLY ONES who WOULD COME AFTER HIM are FALSE PROPHETS:
Matthew 24:4-5
Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[a]' and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:11
and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Matthew 24:24-26
24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.
26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it.
The BIBLE also STATES that FALSE PROPHETS will ARISE to LEAD ASTRAY MEMBERS of the PEOPLE of GOD.
Romans 16:17-18
17I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
Galatians 1:8
8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
So, IT IS CLEAR that THERE WOULD BE NO OTHER SUCCESSION apart from THOSE SENT out BY GOD HIMSELF.
Matthew 28:19-20
19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
BALIK ISLAM:
1. Chronologically, in history as a sequence of event in time.
2. By being Chosen3 by God.
3. In the fulfilment of the prophecies of his predecessors, and but not in the least...
4. By bringing the Guidance of God to perfection ' "For he will Guide you into all Truth." said. Jesus Christ
CENON BIBE:
ANS. TO 1. THIS is ANSWERED ABOVE.
ANS. TO 2. THIS HAS TO BE PROVEN. SO FAR, NO BALIK ISLAM has PROVEN THIS POINT.
ANS. TO 3. As we have shown, THERE IS NO PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE that REFERS to THE PROPHET of ISLAM.
ANS. TO 4. This is DECEPTION. The WORDS of JESUS here is FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT and NOT TO THE PROPHET of ISLAM.
BALIK ISLAM quoting AHMED DEEDAT:
ReplyDelete1.JESUS FOR JEWS ONLY
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying,
Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, 1 and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go ye rather unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 10:5-6
CENON BIBE:
That CLAIM is IGNORANCE.
Please read Hesus sinugo lang sa mga Israelita?
BALIK ISLAM quoting AHMED DEEDAT:
ReplyDelete"THE FATHER1 OF TRUTH CHOOSES HIS OWN PROPHETS, AND HE SPEAKS TO THEM IN A VOICE STRONGER THAN THE VOICE OF THUNDERY
CENON BIBE:
THE BALIK ISLAM has NEVER SHOWN or PROVEN that THE FATHER HAS CHOSEN their PROPHET.
The BALIK ISLAM CANNOT EVEN SHOW that GOD or the FATHER TALKED TO THEIR PROPHET.
BALIK ISLAM quoting AHMED DEEDAT:
ReplyDelete"Ahmed", or "Muhummed", the Praised one, is almost a translation of the Greek word Periclytos. In the present Gospel of John 14:16, 15:26, and 16:7, the word "Comforter" in the English version for the Greek word "Paracletos", which means "Advocate", "one called to the help of another, a kind friend", rather than "Comforter".
CENON BIBE:
Here, the BALIK ISLAM is STEALING VERSES that REFER to the HOLY SPIRIT and NOT TO THE PROPHET of ISLAM.
This is a DELIBERATE MISAPPROPRIATION and DISTORTION of the WORDS of JESUS.
Please read Propeta Muhammad, Paracletos ba?
CHAPTER THREE
ReplyDeleteMUHUMMED (PBUH) IS THE "PARACLETE"
To the sincere seekers of Truth it is obvious that Muhummed (pbuh) is the promised Paraclete or Comforter, alternatively called Helper, Advocate, Counsellor, etc of the prophecies of Jesus (pbuh) in the Gospel of St. John. There are millions of Christians — men and women like our good lady at the Cairo Airport who are hungry for this simple straight-forward Message. But alas, we can only weep with Jesus (pbuh) for our utter ineptitude —
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the workers are few.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 9: 57
LANGUAGE OF JESUS (PBUH)
In the Holy Qur'an God Almighty puts the name "Ahmed" which is another name for Muhummed (pbuh) in the mouth of Jesus (pbuh). The Christian controversialist, Bible-thumper, Hot-Gospeller flippantly scoffs at the suggestion. The Christian missionary does not deny that Jesus (pbuh) did make a prophecy about someone coming after him. But "Ahmed" to him seems too far-fetched.
The most commonly accepted name by Christendom is "Comforter" It does not really matter Comforter or any other equivalent term will do. We will settle for Comforter as used in the most popular Bible Translation the "King James Version."
Ask your adversary, your disputant whether Jesus (pbuh) spoke the English language? "Most definitely not!" any Christian will say. If you are sharing this with an Arab Christian then you can ask him whether his "lord" used the word "MOOUZZI?" Surely not, because Arabic was not his language. Did Jesus (pbuh) prophesy "uMthokozisi?" (Comforter in Zulu) or "Trooster" from the Afrikaans Bible? The answer again is a definite NO!"
The Christians are rightfully boasting that they now have translated the complete Bible into hundreds of different languages, and the New Testament (in which this prophecy abounds) into more than two thousand different languages and dialects. So the Christian genius has invented more than 2000 different names in 2000 different languages for this one candidate — Comforter!
PNEUMA: GHOST OR SPIRIT?
ReplyDeleteThe Church fathers had developed a sickness by translating names of people, for which they had no right to do. For example like Esau to Jesus, Messiah to Christ, Cephas1 to Peter and so on.
1. See "What is His Name?" for a better clarification on this point.
The closest one can ever get to the original utterance of Jesus (pbuh) in the Christian Scriptures is the Greek word "Para-cletos" which also has to be rejected because the Master did not speak Greek! But let's not be difficult for the purpose of this discussion and accept the Greek word Paracletos and its English equivalent Comforter.
Ask any learned Christian man as to who the Comforter is? You will unmistakingly hear - "The Comforter is the HOLY GHOST!" from John 14: 26. This sentence is only part of verse twenty six. We will deal with the verse fully in due course. But first we must educate the Christian mind with regards to this misnomer — "Holy Ghost." "Pneuma" is the Greek root word for SPIRIT. There is no separate word for GHOST in the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, and the Christians now boast 24,000 different manuscripts in their possession of which no two are identical!
The editors of the KJV (The King James Version) alternatively called AV (The Authorised Version) and the DOUAY (The Roman Catholic Version) of the Bibles gave preference to the word "GHOST' instead of the word SPIRIT when translating "pneuma"
The revisers of the RSV (Revised Standard Version) 1 the most up-to-date version of the Bible, are going back, as claimed, to the Most Ancient manuscripts. These revisers, described as "thirty-two scholars of the highest eminence, backed by fifty co-operating denominations" who courageously re-placed the shady word "ghost" with the word "spirit" Hence from now on you will read in all modem translations — "The Comforter which is the Holy SPIRIT"! However, the Christian crusaders and the televangelists stubbornly cling to the spooky ("ghost"-ly) past They will not opt for the Newer Versions. It's better fishing with the old bait - the KJV and the RCV (Roman Catholic Version).
1. For greater detail on the RSV see "Is the Bible God’s Word?"
With the new change in spirit, the verse under scrutiny will read:
But the Comforter, Which is The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (Emphasis added).
(HOLY BIBLE) John 14: 26
You do not have to be a Bible scholar of any calibre to sense that the expression "which is the Holy Spirit" is actually an interpolation. It ought to be in parenthesis, in brackets, like my words which have been interpolated in the quotation, i.e. "(emphasis added)." Although the editors of the RSV have expunged dozens of interpolations from their boasted Revised Standard Version, they have retained this jarring phrase which contradicts other explicit predictions of Jesus (pbuh) on the subject of the Comforter itself.
"HOLY SPIRIT" IS HOLY PROPHET
ReplyDelete(i) It may be noted that no Biblical scholar of any standing has ever equated the "paracletos" of John in the original Greek with the Holy Ghost. Now we can say with one breath that if the Comforter is the "Holy Spirit" then that Holy Spirit is the Holy Prophet!
A.C. AFTER CHRIST'S BIRTH:
4. ... and the Holy Ghost was upon him (Simeon).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 2:26
5. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily
shape like a dove upon him (Jesus).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
From the above quotations, before and after the birth of Jesus (pbuh), one cannot help admiring St. Luke who appears to be a specialist on the Holy Ghost We may well ask the Christians, after the descent of the "dove", with whose help did Jesus (pbuh) perform his many miracles if not with the help of the Holy Ghost? Let the Master himself tell us. When accused by his own people, the Jews, that he was working in league with Beelzebub (the chief of the devils) to work his miracles, Jesus (pbuh) rhetorically questions them, "How can Satan cast out Satan?" The Jews imputed that this spirit of holiness - the Spirit of God - which was helping him, was devilish. This was treason of the highest order. So he gives them a dire warning:
... but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, it shall never be forgiven
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:31
This "Holy Ghost" is non other than what Matthew himself has described in three verses before quoting the Master:
But if I (Jesus) cast out devils by the Spirit OF God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:28
Compare the same statement by another Gospel writer1
But if I (Jesus) by the Finger Of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
1. Give a second glance at the two verses, top and bottom, and you cannot help concluding that they are almost indentical. Why? The answer is in "Is the Bible God’s Word?".
You do not have to be a Bible scholar to understand that the expressions (a) "Finger of God" (b) "Spirit of God" and (c) "Holy Ghost" are all synonymous phrases. So the Holy Ghost was helping Jesus (pbuh) in his ministry. The Holy Ghost was also helping his disciples on their missions of preaching and healing. If there is still any doubt in your minds about the workings of the Holy Ghost then please read:
EMPTY PROMISE
...as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you (the disciples of Jesus),
And when he had said this, be breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive Ye The Holy Ghost
(HOLY BIBLE) John 20: 21 –22
This was surely no empty promise. The disciples must have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. So if the "Holy Ghost" was with (1) John the Baptist, (2) Elizabeth. (3) Zacharias. (4) Simeon. (5) Jesus and (6) the Disciples of Jesus; then all this makes nonsense of the saying that "if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you." Therefore the Comforter is not the Holy Ghost?
The verse under discussion is John 16: 7. I remember the thrill and joy 1 got out of it when quoting it in Arabic to the Coptic Christian lady in the land of the Pharaohs ( discussed earlier). The pleasure is immense when expounding Biblical verses in the standard native language of a country or locality. I have done it in a dozen different vernaculars. Won't you master the above verse in a language or two of your choice for the good of Islam?
AFRIKAANS A UNIQUE LANGUAGE
ReplyDeleteOf all the languages in which I have mastered the verse in question. I have derived the greatest excitement and benefit from Afrikaans. It is a language of the ruling race in South Africa. It is the youngest of the world's languages. The language is unique. In fact every language is unique. But Afrikaans is in a class of its own. It also happens to be the mother tongue of half the Muslim population of South Africa who were brought here as prisoners of war and enslaved by the Christians; that is simply by force of circumstances. For their immediate benefit and for your information I reproduce the verse here:
Maar ek se julle die waarheid: dit is vir julle voordelig dat ek weggaan;
want as ek Nie weggaan Nie, sal
die Trooster1 Nie na julle kom
Nie; maar as ek weggaan, sal ek horn na julle stuur
]ohanness 16: 7
1. TROOSTER: Now changed to "VOORSPRAAK!"
Believe it or not! It is the genius of this language that it uses four negatives NIE, NIE, NIE, NIE. to prove a positive! The departure of Jesus is an absolute imperative for the coming of the "Trooster," the Comforter to come! This verse in this language has opened many doors for me, other than religious, and it locks the door against the idea of the "Comforter which is the Holy Ghost" (John 14:26).
A.C. AFTER CHRIST'S BIRTH:
4. ... and the Holy Ghost was upon him (Simeon).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 2:26
5. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily
shape like a dove upon him (Jesus).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
From the above quotations, before and after the birth of Jesus (pbuh), one cannot help admiring St. Luke who appears to be a specialist on the Holy Ghost We may well ask the Christians, after the descent of the "dove", with whose help did Jesus (pbuh) perform his many miracles if not with the help of the Holy Ghost? Let the Master himself tell us. When accused by his own people, the Jews, that he was working in league with Beelzebub (the chief of the devils) to work his miracles, Jesus (pbuh) rhetorically questions them, "How can Satan cast out Satan?" The Jews imputed that this spirit of holiness - the Spirit of God - which was helping him, was devilish. This was treason of the highest order. So he gives them a dire warning:
... but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, it shall never be forgiven
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:31
This "Holy Ghost" is non other than what Matthew himself has described in three verses before quoting the Master:
But if I (Jesus) cast out devils by the Spirit OF God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:28
Compare the same statement by another Gospel writer1
But if I (Jesus) by the Finger Of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
1. Give a second glance at the two verses, top and bottom, and you cannot help concluding that they are almost indentical. Why? The answer is in "Is the Bible God’s Word?".
You do not have to be a Bible scholar to understand that the expressions (a) "Finger of God" (b) "Spirit of God" and (c) "Holy Ghost" are all synonymous phrases. So the Holy Ghost was helping Jesus (pbuh) in his ministry. The Holy Ghost was also helping his disciples on their missions of preaching and healing. If there is still any doubt in your minds about the workings of the Holy Ghost then please read:
EMPTY PROMISE
ReplyDelete...as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you (the disciples of Jesus),
And when he had said this, be breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive Ye The Holy Ghost
(HOLY BIBLE) John 20: 21 –22
This was surely no empty promise. The disciples must have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. So if the "Holy Ghost" was with (1) John the Baptist, (2) Elizabeth. (3) Zacharias. (4) Simeon. (5) Jesus and (6) the Disciples of Jesus; then all this makes nonsense of the saying that "if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you." Therefore the Comforter is not the Holy Ghost?
The verse under discussion is John 16: 7. I remember the thrill and joy 1 got out of it when quoting it in Arabic to the Coptic Christian lady in the land of the Pharaohs ( discussed earlier). The pleasure is immense when expounding Biblical verses in the standard native language of a country or locality. I have done it in a dozen different vernaculars. Won't you master the above verse in a language or two of your choice for the good of Islam?
AFRIKAANS A UNIQUE LANGUAGE
Of all the languages in which I have mastered the verse in question. I have derived the greatest excitement and benefit from Afrikaans. It is a language of the ruling race in South Africa. It is the youngest of the world's languages. The language is unique. In fact every language is unique. But Afrikaans is in a class of its own. It also happens to be the mother tongue of half the Muslim population of South Africa who were brought here as prisoners of war and enslaved by the Christians; that is simply by force of circumstances. For their immediate benefit and for your information I reproduce the verse here:
Maar ek se julle die waarheid: dit is vir julle voordelig dat ek weggaan;
want as ek Nie weggaan Nie, sal
die Trooster1 Nie na julle kom
Nie; maar as ek weggaan, sal ek horn na julle stuur
]ohanness 16: 7
1. TROOSTER: Now changed to "VOORSPRAAK!"
Believe it or not! It is the genius of this language that it uses four negatives NIE, NIE, NIE, NIE. to prove a positive! The departure of Jesus is an absolute imperative for the coming of the "Trooster," the Comforter to come! This verse in this language has opened many doors for me, other than religious, and it locks the door against the idea of the "Comforter which is the Holy Ghost" (John 14:26).
DISCIPLES NOT FIT
We now come to the four most comprehensive and decisive verses in John. chapter sixteen to solve the enigma of the Successor to Christ. For Jesus (pbuh) did truly say:
I have yet Many Things to say unto you, but Ye Cannot Bear Them Now.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 12
We will later tie up the phrase "many things" from the above verse with "guide you into all truth" from the verse that follows, when discussing it. For now. let us discuss the phrase — "YE CANNOT BEAR THEM NOW"
The truth of this statement "ye cannot bear them now" is repeated monotonously throughout the pages of the New Testament:
And he (Jesus) saith unto them (the disciples). Why are ye fearful, O Ye Of Little Faith?
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 8. 26
AND (JESUS) said unto him (Peter) O Thou of Little Faith...
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 14:31
... he (Jesus) said unto them (the disciples), O Ye Of Little Faith, why reason among yourselves ...
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 16: 8
And he (Jesus) said unto them (his disciples). Where Is Your Faith?
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 8: 25
We must bear in mind that this is not the indictment of Jesus (pbuh) on the indecisiveness of the Jews, but on his very own elect. He stoops down to the level of little children to make things plain to his disciples but he is compelled to burst out in frustration.
And Jesus said, Are Ye Even Yet Without Understanding?
ReplyDelete(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 15:16
And when he was provoked to breaking point, he rails against his chosen ones —
' ... O Faithless And Perverse Generation, how long shall I
be with you, how long shall I bear with you?
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 9: 41
OWN FAMILY THOUGHT HIM MAD
If Jesus (pbuh) would have been a Japanese instead of a Jew. he would happily have committed that honourable "harakiri" (suicide). Sadly, he was the most unfortunate of God’s Messengers. His family disbelieved him For neither did his (]esus’) brethren believe in him (John 7: 5). In fact they went to the extent of wanting to apprehend him. believing that he was mad.
And when his relatives heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him (Jesus); for they said, he is beside himself.
(HOLY BIBLE) Mark 3. 21
Who were these friends and relatives of Jesus (pbuh) which had concern for his sanity? Let Rev. J.R. Dummelow. M.A. in his One Volume Bible Commentary tell us. On page 726 he says —
"FROM V.31" (just 10 verses following the above quotation) "THEY APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN… HIS FAMILY SAID ‘HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF,’" (meaning that he is not right in his head); "THE SCRIBES SAID, ‘HE IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.’ IT IS NOT, HOW EVER, IMPLIED AT ALL THAT HIS FAMILY WAS IN SYMPATHY WITH THE SCRIBES" (the learned men of the Jews). "THEIR APPREHENSION BEING SIMPLY THAT HIS MIND WAS UNSETTLED. AND THAT HE NEEDED TO BE PUT UNDER RESTRAINT."
JESUS - REJECTED BY HIS NATION
That was the verdict of the close relations of Jesus (pbuh). What then was the response of his own nation, the Jews, after all his beautiful preachings and mighty miracle workings? His disciple puts it very mildly:
He came unto his own (the Jews) and his own received him (Jesus) not.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 1:11
Actually "his own" mocked him. scorned him and vehemently rejected him. To the extent of making an attempt to crucify him.' Despite two thousand years of Christian persecutions and pogroms, and now their overweening love and infatuation for them, so as to salve their own conscience, the Jews as a people and as a whole can never accept Jesus as their Saviour, their Deliverer, their God, simply because of their one sound judgement —
"THAT NO JEW CAN EVER ACCEPT ANOTHER JEW AS A GOD!"
It is only in Islam that the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims can find accommodation — all believing in Jesus Christ (pbuh) for what he really was — one of the mightiest Messengers of God; and not as God or His son!
DISCIPLES DESERTED HIM
ReplyDeleteWhat was the response of the chosen twelve; of his own "mother and bretheren!" (Mark 3: 34), as he called them? I will allow Professor Momerie to describe it in his own inimitable words—
"HIS IMMEDIATE DISCIPLES, WERE ALWAYS MISUNDERSTANDING HIM AND HIS WORK: WANTING HIM TO CALL DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN; WANTING HIM TO DECLARE HIMSELF KING OF THE JEWS; WANTING TO SIT ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT HAND IN HIS KINGDOM; WANTING HIM TO SHOW THEM THE FATHER. TO MAKE GOD VISIBLE TO THEIR BODILY EYES;
WANTING HIM TO DO. AND WANTING TO DO THEMSELVES. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS INCOMPATIBLE WITH HIS GREAT PLAN. THIS WAS HOW THEY TREATED HIM UNTIL THE END. (and) WHEN THAT CAME. THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM. AND FLED."
Quoted from Sayed Amir All in his "The Spirit of Islam" page 31.
It was most unfortunate that Jesus Christ (pbuh) had no real choice in selecting his disciples. They let him down as no other group of devotees had ever let down their prophet before. It was no fault of the Master. He bewailed his plight: "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (clay) is weak" (Matthew 26: 41). Truly, this is not the clay out of which a new Adam could be made. He passes on that responsibility to his Successor, whom he calls here — "The Spirit of Truth," ie the Prophet of Truth, the Prophet of Righteousness!
"SPIRIT" AND "PROPHET" SYNONYMOUS
Howbeit when he, the Spirit Of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth
(Holy Bible) John 16:13
It has already been established that. Biblically, the word "Spirit" is used synonymously for "Prophet," by the same author in 1 John 4: 1 (as seen earlier).
Hence the "Spirit of Truth" would be the Prophet of Truth. A prophet in whom Truth is personified. He had walked through life so honourably and industriously that he had won for himself even from his pagan fellow countrymen the noble designation of as-Saadiq (the Truthful One) and al-Amin, "the Honest," "the Upright." "the Trustworthy;" the Man of Faith who never broke his word. His life, his personality, his teachings are the veritable proof of Muhummed (pbuh) being the embodiment of Truth (al-Amin) — the Spirit of Truth!
But Abraham said, "If they (those still alive on earth) won't listen to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even though someone rises from the dead. " (to warn them)
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 16: 31
Jesus (pbuh) uttered the above fact centuries after the demise of the prophets of Israel like Jeremiah, Hosea, Zechariah, etc and over thirteen hundred years after Moses (pbuh). The Pharisees at the time of Jesus (pbuh) and we today can still listen to "MOSES AND THE PROPHETS," for they are still alive, and with us here today in their teachings.
'YOU' OF THE TIME
If it is said that the Comforter was promised to the immediate disciples of Jesus (pbuh) and not to a people six hundred years later:
and he (God) shall give You another Comforter, that he may abide with You for ever.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 14:16
Surprisingly, the Christian sees no difficulty in justifying the fulfilment of prophecies "since the world began," 1 and after over a millennium2 when Peter in his second sermon to the Jews, reminds them:
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord Your God raise up unto You of Your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear In all things what-soever he shall say unto You.
(HOLY BIBLE) Acts 3: 22
All these "YE, YOU and YOURS" are from the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 18, 3 when Moses (pbuh) addressed his people and not the Jews at the time of Peter, thirteen hundred years later. The Gospel writers have put the same compromising words in the mouth of their Master which are begging for fulfilment for two thousand years. I think just one example will suffice:
But when they persecute You in this city, flee Ye into another: for verily (most assuredly) I (Jesus) say unto You, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the son of man (Jesus) be come.
ReplyDelete(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 10: 25
1. Acts 3:21
2. Millennium: A thousand years
3. For an elaboration on this prophecy, see "WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT MUHUMMED (PBUH)"
SCANNING THE CLOUDS
These early followers of the Messiah, forever ran, forlornly fleeing persecution. They ran from one city to another in Israel, scanning every dark cloud for the descent of Jesus (pbuh) in his second coming. The missionaries see no anomaly in their millennium of unfulfilled prophecies. God Almighty did not keep them waiting for even a quarter of the time for the advent of the "paracletos," — the Comforter or Ahmed which is another name for the Praised One. Let them show gratitude to God by accepting this Last and Final Messenger of God — Muhummed (pbuh)!
ADVENT OF COMFORTER CONDITIONAL
(iii) The Comforter is definitely not the "Holy Ghost" because the coming of the Comforter was conditional whereas that of the Holy Ghost was not as we observe in the prophecy —
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go for If I Go Not Away, The Comforter Will Not Come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 7
"lf I don't go he won't come, but if I go, I will send him." There are numerous instances in the Holy Bible about the coming andgoing of the HOLY GHOST, before the birth and departure of the Messiah. Do yourself a favour, please verify these references in your Bible -
B.C. BEFORE CHRIST'S BIRTH:
1. ... and he (John the Baptist) shall be
filled with the Holy Ghost,
even from his mother's womb.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 1: 15
2. ... and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Ghost.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 1: 41
3. And his father Zacharias was
filled with the Holy Ghost.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 1:67
A.C. AFTER CHRIST'S BIRTH:
4. ... and the Holy Ghost was upon him (Simeon).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 2:26
5. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily
shape like a dove upon him (Jesus).
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
From the above quotations, before and after the birth of Jesus (pbuh), one cannot help admiring St. Luke who appears to be a specialist on the Holy Ghost We may well ask the Christians, after the descent of the "dove", with whose help did Jesus (pbuh) perform his many miracles if not with the help of the Holy Ghost? Let the Master himself tell us. When accused by his own people, the Jews, that he was working in league with Beelzebub (the chief of the devils) to work his miracles, Jesus (pbuh) rhetorically questions them, "How can Satan cast out Satan?" The Jews imputed that this spirit of holiness - the Spirit of God - which was helping him, was devilish. This was treason of the highest order. So he gives them a dire warning:
... but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, it shall never be forgiven
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:31
This "Holy Ghost" is non other than what Matthew himself has described in three verses before quoting the Master:
ReplyDeleteBut if I (Jesus) cast out devils by the Spirit OF God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 12:28
Compare the same statement by another Gospel writer1
But if I (Jesus) by the Finger Of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 3:22
1. Give a second glance at the two verses, top and bottom, and you cannot help concluding that they are almost indentical. Why? The answer is in "Is the Bible God’s Word?".
You do not have to be a Bible scholar to understand that the expressions (a) "Finger of God" (b) "Spirit of God" and (c) "Holy Ghost" are all synonymous phrases. So the Holy Ghost was helping Jesus (pbuh) in his ministry. The Holy Ghost was also helping his disciples on their missions of preaching and healing. If there is still any doubt in your minds about the workings of the Holy Ghost then please read:
EMPTY PROMISE
...as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you (the disciples of Jesus),
And when he had said this, be breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive Ye The Holy Ghost
(HOLY BIBLE) John 20: 21 –22
This was surely no empty promise. The disciples must have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. So if the "Holy Ghost" was with (1) John the Baptist, (2) Elizabeth. (3) Zacharias. (4) Simeon. (5) Jesus and (6) the Disciples of Jesus; then all this makes nonsense of the saying that "if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you." Therefore the Comforter is not the Holy Ghost?
The verse under discussion is John 16: 7. I remember the thrill and joy 1 got out of it when quoting it in Arabic to the Coptic Christian lady in the land of the Pharaohs ( discussed earlier). The pleasure is immense when expounding Biblical verses in the standard native language of a country or locality. I have done it in a dozen different vernaculars. Won't you master the above verse in a language or two of your choice for the good of Islam?
AFRIKAANS A UNIQUE LANGUAGE
ReplyDeleteOf all the languages in which I have mastered the verse in question. I have derived the greatest excitement and benefit from Afrikaans. It is a language of the ruling race in South Africa. It is the youngest of the world's languages. The language is unique. In fact every language is unique. But Afrikaans is in a class of its own. It also happens to be the mother tongue of half the Muslim population of South Africa who were brought here as prisoners of war and enslaved by the Christians; that is simply by force of circumstances. For their immediate benefit and for your information I reproduce the verse here:
Maar ek se julle die waarheid: dit is vir julle voordelig dat ek weggaan;
want as ek Nie weggaan Nie, sal
die Trooster1 Nie na julle kom
Nie; maar as ek weggaan, sal ek horn na julle stuur
]ohanness 16: 7
1. TROOSTER: Now changed to "VOORSPRAAK!"
Believe it or not! It is the genius of this language that it uses four negatives NIE, NIE, NIE, NIE. to prove a positive! The departure of Jesus is an absolute imperative for the coming of the "Trooster," the Comforter to come! This verse in this language has opened many doors for me, other than religious, and it locks the door against the idea of the "Comforter which is the Holy Ghost" (John 14:26).
DISCIPLES NOT FIT
We now come to the four most comprehensive and decisive verses in John. chapter sixteen to solve the enigma of the Successor to Christ. For Jesus (pbuh) did truly say:
I have yet Many Things to say unto you, but Ye Cannot Bear Them Now.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 12
We will later tie up the phrase "many things" from the above verse with "guide you into all truth" from the verse that follows, when discussing it. For now. let us discuss the phrase — "YE CANNOT BEAR THEM NOW"
The truth of this statement "ye cannot bear them now" is repeated monotonously throughout the pages of the New Testament:
And he (Jesus) saith unto them (the disciples). Why are ye fearful, O Ye Of Little Faith?
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 8. 26
AND (JESUS) said unto him (Peter) O Thou of Little Faith...
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 14:31
... he (Jesus) said unto them (the disciples), O Ye Of Little Faith, why reason among yourselves ...
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 16: 8
And he (Jesus) said unto them (his disciples). Where Is Your Faith?
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 8: 25
ReplyDeleteWe must bear in mind that this is not the indictment of Jesus (pbuh) on the indecisiveness of the Jews, but on his very own elect. He stoops down to the level of little children to make things plain to his disciples but he is compelled to burst out in frustration
And Jesus said, Are Ye Even Yet Without Understanding?
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 15:16
And when he was provoked to breaking point, he rails against his chosen ones —
' ... O Faithless And Perverse Generation, how long shall I
be with you, how long shall I bear with you?
(HOLY BIBLE) Luke 9: 41
OWN FAMILY THOUGHT HIM MAD
If Jesus (pbuh) would have been a Japanese instead of a Jew. he would happily have committed that honourable "harakiri" (suicide). Sadly, he was the most unfortunate of God’s Messengers. His family disbelieved him For neither did his (]esus’) brethren believe in him (John 7: 5). In fact they went to the extent of wanting to apprehend him. believing that he was mad.
And when his relatives heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him (Jesus); for they said, he is beside himself.
(HOLY BIBLE) Mark 3. 21
Who were these friends and relatives of Jesus (pbuh) which had concern for his sanity? Let Rev. J.R. Dummelow. M.A. in his One Volume Bible Commentary tell us. On page 726 he says —
"FROM V.31" (just 10 verses following the above quotation) "THEY APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN… HIS FAMILY SAID ‘HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF,’" (meaning that he is not right in his head); "THE SCRIBES SAID, ‘HE IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.’ IT IS NOT, HOW EVER, IMPLIED AT ALL THAT HIS FAMILY WAS IN SYMPATHY WITH THE SCRIBES" (the learned men of the Jews). "THEIR APPREHENSION BEING SIMPLY THAT HIS MIND WAS UNSETTLED. AND THAT HE NEEDED TO BE PUT UNDER RESTRAINT."
JESUS - REJECTED BY HIS NATION
ReplyDeleteThat was the verdict of the close relations of Jesus (pbuh). What then was the response of his own nation, the Jews, after all his beautiful preachings and mighty miracle workings? His disciple puts it very mildly:
He came unto his own (the Jews) and his own received him (Jesus) not.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 1:11
Actually "his own" mocked him. scorned him and vehemently rejected him. To the extent of making an attempt to crucify him.' Despite two thousand years of Christian persecutions and pogroms, and now their overweening love and infatuation for them, so as to salve their own conscience, the Jews as a people and as a whole can never accept Jesus as their Saviour, their Deliverer, their God, simply because of their one sound judgement —
"THAT NO JEW CAN EVER ACCEPT ANOTHER JEW AS A GOD!"
It is only in Islam that the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims can find accommodation — all believing in Jesus Christ (pbuh) for what he really was — one of the mightiest Messengers of God; and not as God or His son!
DISCIPLES DESERTED HIM
What was the response of the chosen twelve; of his own "mother and bretheren!" (Mark 3: 34), as he called them? I will allow Professor Momerie to describe it in his own inimitable words—
"HIS IMMEDIATE DISCIPLES, WERE ALWAYS MISUNDERSTANDING HIM AND HIS WORK: WANTING HIM TO CALL DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN; WANTING HIM TO DECLARE HIMSELF KING OF THE JEWS; WANTING TO SIT ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT HAND IN HIS KINGDOM; WANTING HIM TO SHOW THEM THE FATHER. TO MAKE GOD VISIBLE TO THEIR BODILY EYES;
WANTING HIM TO DO. AND WANTING TO DO THEMSELVES. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS INCOMPATIBLE WITH HIS GREAT PLAN. THIS WAS HOW THEY TREATED HIM UNTIL THE END. (and) WHEN THAT CAME. THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM. AND FLED."
Quoted from Sayed Amir All in his "The Spirit of Islam" page 31.
It was most unfortunate that Jesus Christ (pbuh) had no real choice in selecting his disciples. They let him down as no other group of devotees had ever let down their prophet before. It was no fault of the Master. He bewailed his plight: "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (clay) is weak" (Matthew 26: 41). Truly, this is not the clay out of which a new Adam could be made. He passes on that responsibility to his Successor, whom he calls here — "The Spirit of Truth," ie the Prophet of Truth, the Prophet of Righteousness!
"SPIRIT" AND "PROPHET" SYNONYMOUS
Howbeit when he, the Spirit Of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth
(Holy Bible) John 16:13
It has already been established that. Biblically, the word "Spirit" is used synonymously for "Prophet," by the same author in 1 John 4: 1 (as seen earlier).
Hence the "Spirit of Truth" would be the Prophet of Truth. A prophet in whom Truth is personified. He had walked through life so honourably and industriously that he had won for himself even from his pagan fellow countrymen the noble designation of as-Saadiq (the Truthful One) and al-Amin, "the Honest," "the Upright." "the Trustworthy;" the Man of Faith who never broke his word. His life, his personality, his teachings are the veritable proof of Muhummed (pbuh) being the embodiment of Truth (al-Amin) — the Spirit of Truth!
CHAPTER FOUR
ReplyDeleteTotal Guidance!
"MANY" AND "ALL"
As promised, we will now combine, "I have yet MANY things to say unto you" from verse twelve, with "he will guide you into ALL truth." From John 16: 12 and 13.
If the Christian still persists that the Spirit of Truth of this prophecy is the Holy Ghost then ask him or her whether in their language does "MANY" means more than one? Also if "ALL" in the above verse means more than one? If you get a halting, wavering, hesitant "y-e-s" then close the book. it is not worth pursuing dialogues with opinionated fools. But if you get the answer "yes!" with alacrity then proceed ...
The one prophesied by Jesus (pbuh) was to unravel many things which he had left unsaid, as well as to guide humanity into all truth. There are many problems facing mankind today, for which we are fumbling for answers. Can you please give me one new thing that the alleged Holy Ghost gave to anybody in the past two thousand years, which Jesus Christ had not already given in so many different words? I don’t want many, I'am looking for just one!
NO SOLUTION FROM HOLY GHOST
Believe me, in my forty years of questioning. I have not come across a single Christian with a single "new Truth" inspired by the Holy Ghost, yet the promise was that the coming Comforter -"he will guide you into all truth!" If the Spirit of Truth of this prophecy is the Holy Ghost then every Church and denomination, and eveiy 'born-again' Christian is claiming the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Roman Catholics claim that they have the whole Truth because of the so-called "in-dwelling" of the Holy Ghost. The Anglicans make the same claim, and the Methodists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists, the Baptists, the Christadelphians. etc. etc. not forgetting the 'born-agains' who claim to be numbering over 70 million in the United States alone.
You have the right to demand solutions from them, on the authority of the Holy Ghost, for the problems listed below:
1. Alcohol
2. Gambling
3. Fortune Telling
4. Idol Worship, Devil Worship
5. Racism
6. Problem of Surplus Women etc etc.
PROBLEM OF ALCOHOL
The Republic of South Africa with a small "white"1 population of 4 million among its total population of 30 million, has over 300,000 alcoholics. In neighbouring Zambia. Kenneth Kaunda calls such people "drunkards!" It is recorded that the "coloureds"2 in South Africa have five times the amount of alcoholics as any other race in the country. For the Indians and the Africans no statistics are available for their respective drunkards.
Jimmy Swaggart the televangelist records in his book "ALCOHOL" that the United States has 11 million alcoholics3 and 44 million "heavy drinkers!", and he like a good Muslim, goes on to say that he sees no difference between the two. To him they are all drunkards! The rampant evil of drunkenness is universal. The Holy Ghost has not yet made its pronouncement on this evil through any Church. Christendom winks at drunkenness on three flimsy pretences based on the Holy Bible.
1. Of European extraction.
2. A mixture between the Black and White Races,
3. The Americans euphemistically call them "Problem Drinkers."
(a) Give strong drink (hard liquor) to him who is perishing (one who is dying) And wine to those who are bitter of heart.
Let him drink and forget his poverty. And remember his misery no more.
(HOLY BIBLE) Proverbs 31:6-7
A very good philosophy to keep the subject nations under subjugation, you will agree.
HIS VERY FIRST MIRACLE
ReplyDelete(b) Jesus (pbuh) was no "killjoy," the imbibers say, he turned water into wine in his very first recorded miracle in the Bible:
Jesus saith unto them. Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
And he saith unto them. Draw out now...
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine ...
And saith ... (why) thou hast kept the good wine until now.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 2: 7-10
Since this alleged miracle, wine continues to flow like water in Christendom.
SOBER ADVICE
(c) Saint Paul the thirteenth self-appointed disciple of Christ, the real founder of Christianity, advises his new convert protege — Timothy, born of a Greek father and a Jewish mother:
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
(HOLY BIBLE) 1 Timothy 5: 23
The Christians accept all the Bible quotations on stimulating and intoxicating drinks given above as the infallible word of God. They believe that the Holy Ghost inspired the authors to pen such dangerous advices. Rev. Dummelow seems to have some qualms about this verse. He says.
"IT TEACHES US THAT IF THE BODY NEEDS THE STIMULANT OF WINE. IT IS RIGHT TO TAKE IT IN MODERATION."
ABSTINENCE THE ONLY ANSWER
There are thousands of Christian priests who have been lured into alcoholism by sipping the so-called mild wine in the Church rite of the Holy Communion. Islam is the only religion on the face of the earth which prohibits intoxicants in toto. The Holy Prophet (Spirit) Muhummed (pbuh) had said. "WHATEVER INTOXICATES IN GREATER QUANTITY, IS FORBIDDEN EVEN IN SMALLER QUANTITY." There is no excuse in the house of Islam for a nip or a tot. The Kitab-al-Haq, the Book of Truth (Haq) one of the titles of the Holy Qur'an condemned in the strongest terms not only the evil of alcohol but also items 2, 3, and 4 namely "gambling." "fortune telling" and "idol worship," with just a single stroke —
(SURA MAIDA) Holy Qur’an 5:93
When this verse was revealed, wine barrels were emptied in the streets of Madinah, never to be refilled. This simple straightforward directive has created of the Muslim Ummah (religious community) the biggest society of teetotaller1 in the world.
1. Teetotaller: A person who abstains completely from all alcoholic drinks.
U.S.A. FAILS WITH "PROHIBITION"
ReplyDeleteThe question arises, how is it that this Spirit of Truth — the Holy Prophet Muhummed (pbuh) succeeded with one verse whereas mighty America with the brain power of the nation and the money power of the Government, supported by its powerful propaganda machinery failed with "Prohibition," 1 the law outlawing alcohol?
Who coerced the American nation to enact prohibition? Which Arab nation threatened this mighty power with if you do not prohibit alcohol in your country. We will not supply you with oil? Not the Arabs as there was no such thing as oil as a "POLITICAL INSTRUMENT" in the hands of the Arabs during the twenties to egg the United States. It was an intellectual awareness among the American (founding) fathers, based on study and statistics which brought them to the conclusion that intoxicants must be banned. They failed, notwithstanding the fact that the overwhelming majority of the nation was Christian, and that it was they who had voted their Congressmen into power. It is rightly said that that which comes from the brain (intellectually) tickles the brain, but that which comes from the heart and soul of a man, will move the heart. The verse just quoted above from the Holy Qur'an on prohibition, had and has the power for change; we will allow Thomas Carlyle to reveal the source of that power:
"IF A BOOK COME FROM THE HEART. IT WILL CONTRIVE TO REACH OTHER HEARTS; ALL ART AND AUTHORCRAFT ARE SMALL AMOUNT TO THAT. ONE WOULD SAY THE PRIMARY CHARACTER OF THE KORAN IS THIS OF ITS GENUINENESS, OF ITS BEING A BONA-FIDE BOOK."
1. Prohibition: The era from 1920 to 1933 in which the sale, trade and consumption of alcohol was outlawed in the United States as a result of a long campaign by church groups, women’s organizations, temperance societies and the Anti-Saloon league. It sparked off bootlegging, which gave a strong financial arm to organized crime. Congress repealed the Act in 1933, after strong public opinion dismay at its failure. These were also the years in which the infamous Al-Capone made his first debut.
HIGH SPIRITUALITY - A SOURCE OF POWER
All the beautiful thoughts, words and expressions, never mind how artistically constructed, remain like ringing bells or clanking cymbals unless they are backed up by a powerful personality charged with high spirituality. And that type of super spirituality comes only as Jesus (pbuh) put it through "fasting and prayer" (Matthew 17: 21).
Muhummed (pbuh) practised what he preached. After his demise someone asked his dear wife Ayesha Siddiqa about the life-style of her husband. She said. "He was the Qur’an in action." He was the walking Qur’an. He was the talking Qur’an. He was the living Qur’an.
"IF THESE MEN AND WOMEN, NOBLE, INTELLIGENT, AND CERTAINLY NOT LESS EDUCATED THAN THE FISHERMEN OF GALILEE, HAD PERCEIVED THE SLIGHTEST SIGN OF EARTHLINESS, DECEPTION, OR WANT OF FAITH IN THE TEACHER HIMSELF, MOHAMMED’S HOPES OF MORAL REGENERATION AND SOCIAL REFORM WOULD ALL HAVE BEEN CRUMBLED TO DUST IN A MOMENT."
"Spirit of Islam" by Sayed Amir Ali, page 21
CRITIC'S HERO
ReplyDeleteIf it is said that these are the words of a devoted Believer about his beloved, then let us hear what a sympathetic Christian critic had to say about HIS "Hero Prophet!"
"A POOR, HARD-TOILING, ILL-PROVIDED MAN; CARELESS OF WHAT VULGAR MEN TOIL FOR. NOT A BAD MAN, I SHOULD SAY; SOMETHING BETTER IN HIM THAN HUNGER OF ANY SORT, — OR THESE WILD ARAB MEN, FIGHTING AND JOSTLING THREE-AND-TWENTY YEARS AT HIS HAND, IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH HIM ALWAYS, WOULD NOT HAVE REVERENCED HIM SO!
"... THEY CALLED HIM PROPHET, YOU SAY? WHY, HE STOOD THERE FACE TO FACE WITH THEM; BARE. NOT ENSHRINED IN ANY MYSTERY; VISIBLY CLOUTING HIS OWN CLOAK, COBBLING HIS OWN SHOES; FIGHTING, COUNSELLING, ORDERING IN THE MIDST OF THEM: THEY MUST HAVE SEEN WHAT KIND OF A MAN HE WAS, LET HIM BE CALLED WHAT YOU LIKE! NO EMPEROR WITH HIS TIARAS WAS OBEYED AS THIS MAN IN A CLOAK OF HIS OWN CLOUTING. DURING THREE-AND-TWENTY YEARS OF ROUGH ACUTAL TRIAL I FIND SOMETHING OF A VERITABLE HERO NECESSARY FOR THAT, OF ITSELF."
"Hero and Hero-worship" by Thomas Carlyle, page 93
PROBLEM OF RACISM
... For he (the Spirit of Truth) will guide you into all truth!
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16:13
NOT WITHOUT A SYSTEM
It is very easy for the followers of any religion to talk glibly about "THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN" but how is this beautiful idea to be implemented? How to devise a system to bring mankind into a single brotherhood? Five times a day, every Muslim is obligated to gather together at the local mosque to strengthen himself spiritually. The black and the white; the rich and the poor; people of different nationalities, of varying hues are made to rub shoulders in the daily Salaat, the Muslim at Prayer. Once a week, that is on Fridays, he has to congregate at the cathedral Mosque (the Jaame Musjid) for a wider gathering from the surrounding districts. And twice a year during the two Eids at still a larger venue, preferably in the open air, for a vaster communion. A-n-d, at least once in a life-time at the Kaaba, the Central Mosque in Makkah, for an international gathering; where one can witness the blonde-haired Turk, the Ethiopian, the Chinese, the Indian, the American and the African, all get levelled-up in the same pilgrim's garb of two unsewn sheets. Where is there such a great leveller in the religious rites of other faiths?
The infallible precept as enunciated in the Book of God is that the only standard recognised by God is on the basis of one's conduct, one's behaviour towards one's fellow human beings and not because of one's race or riches. These are the only true bases on which the "Kingdom of God" can be established. All this does not mean that the Muslim is immaculate, that he is altogether free from this sickness of racism, but you will find the Muslim the least racist of all the religious groupings strutting the world today.
PROBLEM OF SURPLUS WOMEN
ReplyDeleteNature seems to be at war with mankind. It appears that it wants to take revenge for his cleverness. Man will not listen to the healthy, practical solution to his problems, which a Beneficial, Benevolent Providence offers him. So it says. "go simmer in your SOUP!" (in a manner of speaking).
It is an accepted fact that at birth the ratio of male and female is about equal everywhere. But in child mortality more males die than females. Amazing! The "weaker sex"? At any given time there are more widows in the world than widowers. Every civilized nation has a surplus of women. Great Britain, 4 million. Germany, 5 million. Soviet Russia 7 million, etc. But a solution acceptable to the problem of the mighty United States of America, will be a solution acceptable to nations everywhere. The statistics of this most sophisticated nation on earth is more readily verifiable.
AMERICA, O AMERICA!
We learn that the U.S.A. has a surplus of 7.8 million women. It means that if every man in America got married, there would still be 7 800 000 women left over, women who would be unable to get their share of a husband. One thing we do know, and that is that every man will never get married for so many different reasons. Man gets cold feet and finds many excuses. A woman, even if frigid, would not mind getting married. She would marry, even if it is just for shelter and protection.
But the American problem of surplus women is compounded. Ninety-eight percent of its prison population is male. Then they have 25 million sodomites. Euphemistically they call them "gays" a once beautiful word meaning — happy and joyous — now perverted!
America does everything in a big way. She produces everything mighty. Mighty in promoting God and also mighty in promoting the Devil. Let us for once, join the mighty televangelist (now fallen) Jimmy Swaggart, in his prayer. In his well-researched book - "HOMOSEXUALITY." he cries,
"AMERICA - GOD WILL JUDGE YOU (meaning that God will destroy you), FOR IF HE DOES NOT JUDGE YOU (destroy you). HE (God) MIGHT HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH" for their hasty, utter destruction because of their practice of homosexuality or their wanton gratification of unnatural lust.
NEW YORK AS AN EXAMPLE
The City of New York has one million more women than men. Even if the total male population in this city mustered enough courage to unite with the opposite sex in matrimony; there would still remain 1 000 000 women without husbands.
But to make things worse, it is reputed that one third of the male population in this city is "gay" (homosexuals/sodomites). The Jews, a very vociferous lot in every controversy, remain quiet as mice, for fear of being labelled backward Easterners. The Church, with their millions of born again votaries claiming to be the dwelling houses of the Holy Ghost, are also silent on this topic.
The founders of the Mormon Church. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, claiming a new revelation in 1830 preached and practiced unlimited polygamy to solve the problem of surplus women. The present day prophets of Mormonism1 have abrogated the teaching of their Church fathers to placate American prejudice on the subject of polygamy. What is the poor American/Western/European surplus women to do? They have literally gone to the dogs.2
ReplyDelete1. The Mormons believe in an unbroken chain of living prophets in their church.
2. Consult "The life of the American Female," by Dr. Alfred Kinsey and the latest on the subject by Masters and Johnson
ONLY SOLUTION - RESTRICTED AND REGULATED POLYGAMY
Al-Amin, the Prophet of Truth, the Spirit of Truth, under inspiration of God supplies the solution to their unfortunate plight. God ordains —
... Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four;
But if you fear that you will
not be able to deal justly (with them)
Then (marry) only one ...
(SURA WSAA) Holy Qur’an 4: 3
The Western world feigns tolerance towards the millions of sodomites and lesbians in their midst. It is a joking matter in the West for a man to keep a dozen mistresses, and beget a dozen bastard1 children every year. Such lecherous creatures are proudly labelled as "studs."2 "Let him sow his wild oats, but don't hold him responsible!" says the West
Islam says: "make man responsible for his pleasures." There is a type of man who is prepared to take on extra responsibility, and there is a type of woman who is prepared to share a husband. Why place obstacles in their way? You mock at (polygamy). which was practised by the prophets of God as recorded in the Holy Bible, you forget that Solomon The Wise had a thousand wives and concubines as recorded in the Good Book (1 King 11:3), a healthy solution to your momentous problem, and yet smugly wink at the gratification of unnatural lusts by sodomites and lesbians! What a perversion? Polygamy was practised by the Jews and the pagans in the time of Jesus (pbuh). He did not say a single word against it. Not his fault. The Jews gave him no peace to propound solutions. His was a natural cry, "when he the Spirit of Truth is came, he will guide you into All truth" (John 16:13).
1. Bastard: is Biblical. The Holy Bible has used it three times: Deut. 23:2, Zech. 9:6 and Heb.12:8
2. Stud: A slang used for a man considered to be excessively virile. The term usually reserved for animal husbandry.
COMFORTER TO BE A MAN
ReplyDeleteIf I take the liberty of quoting the prophecy under discussion, with an emphasis on the pronouns, you will agree without any persuasion that the coming Comforter was to be a man and not a ghost.
Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come. . He will guide you into all truth:
for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall
He speak: and He will show you things to come.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 13
Please count the number of He's in the above verse. There are s-e-v-e-n! Seven masculine pronouns in a single verse! There is not another verse in the 66 books of the Protestant Bible or in the 73 Books of the Catholic Bible with seven masculine pronouns, or seven feminine pronouns, or with seven neuter genders. You will agree that so many masculine pronouns in one verse ill befits a Ghost, holy or not!
NON-STOP INTERPOLATIONS
When this point of the seven masculine pronouns in a single verse of the Bible was mooted by the Muslims in India in their debates with the Christian missionaries, the Urdu version of the Bible had the pronouns presently changed to SHE. SHE. SHE! so that the Muslims could not claim that this prophecy referred to Muhummed (pbuh) — a man! This Christian chicanery; deception I have seen in the Urdu Bible myself. This is a common trickery by the missionaries, more specially in the vernacular. The very latest ruse I have stumbled across is in the Afrikaans Bible, on the very verse under discussion; they have changed the word "Trooster" (Comforter), to "Voorspraak" (Mediator), and interpolated the phrase — "die Heilige Gees" — meaning THE HOLY GHOST, which phrase no Bible Scholar has ever dared to interpolate into any of the multifarious English Versions. No not even the Jehovah's Witnesses. 1 This is how the Christians manufacture God's word!2
1. Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Christian sect which has contrived its own Bible translation.
2. See "Is the Bible Gods Word?" and learn how the Chrisitan has been interpolating his own prejudices in a book he claims to be from God.
NINE MASCULINE PRONOUNS
ReplyDeleteThe only other place an author has unknowingly used so many masculine pronouns for this mighty Messenger Muhummed (pbuh) is given below:
"HIS GENTLE DISPOSITION, HIS AUSTERITY OF CONDUCT, THE SEVERE PURITY OF HIS LIFE, HIS SCRUPULOUS REFINEMENT, HIS EVER-READY HELPFULNESS TOWARDS THE POOR AND THE WEAK, HIS NOBLE SENSE OF HONOUR, HIS UNFLINCHING FIDELITY, HIS STERN SENSE OF DUTY HAD WON HIM, AMONG HIS COMPATRIOTS. THE HIGH AND ENVIABLE DESIGNATION OF AL-AM1N, THE TRUSTY."
"Spirit of Islam," by Sayed Amir Ali. page 14
"AL-AMIN," the Faithful, the Trustworthy, "even the Spirit of Truth" (John 14: 17). This expression is a figurative way of saying that SPEAKING TRUTH would be so characteristic of him that people would regard him as TRUTH PERSONIFIED: exactly as Jesus (pbuh) said about himself, "I am the way, the truth and the life . . ." (John 14: 6), that these noble qualities are personified in me. Follow me! But "when he the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16: 13). then you must follow him! But prejudices die hard, therefore we must work harder. But believe me, with the laser truth that Allah has given us, we can change the world with only a fraction of the energy that the Christian is expending.
SOURCE OF REVELATION
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth! For He Shall Not
Speak From Himself But Whatsoever He Shall Hear, That Shall He Speak.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16:13
I have consistently been using the King James Version in my Biblical quotations, but for greater clarity, I give below, alternate rendering from some different versions of the above emphasised sentence:
1. for he will not speak on his Own
Authority, But will tell only what he hears.
The New English Bible
2. He will not speak On His Own; He will
Speak Only What He Hears.
New International Version
3. for he will not be presenting His Own Ideas,
But He Will Be Passing On To You What He Has Heard.
The Living Bible
ReplyDeleteThis "Spirit of Truth," this Prophet of Truth. "Al-Amin.' will not be speaking spiritual truths on his own impulse, but he will speak on the same basis as his previous Comforter — Jesus (pbuh) had spoken:
For I speak not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me the commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
.,. even as the Father hath saith unto me, so I speak.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 12: 49-50
In an identical manner God Almighty testifies His revelation to His Messenger Muhummed (pbuh).
Nor does He say (aught) of (His own) desire.
It is no less than, inspiration sent down to Him.
He was taught by one mighty in power. 1
(SURA NAJM) Holy Qur'an 53; 3-5
This is how God communicated with all His chosen Messengers, whether Abraham, Moses or Jesus.2 It would be absurd to think that this "Spirit of Truth" is the Holy Ghost, because we are told that "he will not speak from himself, but what he hears," surely not from himself?
1. All Quranic Commentators understand this role to refer to the archangel Gabriel. Call him the "Holy Ghost" if you like.
2.
Luke 1:70: "And he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began."
Acts 1:16: .."This scripture must needs have been fulfilled , which the Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David concerning Judas."
Luke 12:12: " For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say."
GOD - A TRINITY?
It is universally accepted in Christendom, all orthodox Christians who believe in what they call the Holy Trinity; that the Father is God, the son is God and the Holy Ghost is God, but they are not three Gods but one God. (?) Let an erudite Christian theologian, like the Rev. Dummelow tell us of this indivisibility, indisolubility of the Christian's "triune" God. Commenting on "We will come" of John 14: 23 he says —
WHERE THE SON IS, THERE OF NECESSITY IS THE FATHER ALSO, AS WELL AS THE SPIRIT, FOR THE THREE ARE ONE, BEING DIFFERENT FORMS OF THE SUBSISTENCE AND MANIFESTATION OF THE SAME DIVINE BEING. THIS PASSAGE ILLUSTRATES THAT THE PERSONS OF THE HOLY TRINITY ARE INSEPARABLE, AND CONTAIN ONE ANOTHER.
Please don't worry. You are not really expected to understand the above verbiage. In short the Christian believes that the "THREE" (I beg your pardon, the Christian says, "ONE!"), all the three are supposed to be Omnipresent and Omniscient and as such leads us to an amusing and ridiculous conclusion. Jesus (pbuh) according to the Christians agonized on the cross at Calvary. Being "inseparable," the Father and the Holy Ghost also must have agonized with the Son, and when he died, the other two died with him! Little wonder we hear the cry in the West — "God is Dead!" Don't laugh. All this imposes on us a more sombre responsibility of extricating our Christian brethren from the spiritual quagmire into which they are wallowing.
CHAPTER 5
ReplyDeleteFulfilled Prophecies
And he will show you things to come.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 13
REFUGEE: ONLY FOR A WHILE
The Christians put great weight on the fulfilment of prophecies. Muhummed (pbuh) fulfilled many prophecies of the Old1 and the New Testaments. To them, the prediction of events is considered to be the function of true prophecy — true prophethood.
The Prophet of Islam uttered many prophecies which are recorded for posterity in the Holy Qur'an. Here are a few taken at random.
1. Verily. He Who (God Almighty) ordained the Qur'an for thee, (He) will bring thee back to the Place of Return...
(SURA QASAS) Holy Qur'an 28: 85
"Place of Return," is a title of the Holy City of Makkah. During the Hijrat (Migration) when the Holy Prophet was fleeing from Makkah to Madinah. It was a hopeless situation. Most of his followers had already migrated to Madinah. Now it was his turn. Together with Abu Bakr (as-Siddiq) he had reached a place called Juhfa, when this assurance was given by God that once again he will return to his birth-place Makkah, and so he did.
He migrated as a refugee and God returns him as a conquerer, fulfilling yet another prophecy.2
And he (Moses) said, the Lord came from Sinai, and rose from Seir unto them; he shined Forth from mount Paran (that is in Arabia), and he (Muhummed) came with Ten Thousand Saints:3from his right hand went a fiery law For them.
(HOLY BIBLE) Deuteronomy 33: 2
1 You will finds some of these prophecies expounded in – "What the Bible says about Muhummed (pbuh)".
2. For a detailed exposition of this book read "Muhummed (pbuh) in the Bible" by Abdul-Ahad Dawud; former Bishop of Uramiah.
3. The Holy Prophet was accompanied by 10 000 SAHABAS (companions – veritable saints) at the conquest of Makkah.
SUPER-POWERS: IN CONFLICT
ReplyDelete2. The Roman Empire has been defeated
In a land close by;
But they, (even) after (this) Defeat of theirs, will soon be victorious —
Within a few years. With God is
the Decision,
In the Past and in the Future:
On that day shall the Believers rejoice —
(SURA RUM) Holy Qur'an 30: 2-4
The above prophecy was revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhummed (pbuh) in the year 615/16 of the Christian era. The Christian Empire of Rome had lost Jerusalem to the Persians, and Christianity had been humbled in the dust. In this holocaust between two of the Superpowers of the day, the Mushriks (polytheists) of Makkah derived vicarious pleasure in the discomfiture of the Romans by the pagan Persians.
"THE PAGAN ARABS NATURALLY SIDED WITH THE PERSIANS IN THEIR DESTRUCTIVE ZEAL, AND THOUGHT THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CHRISTIAN POWER OF ROME WOULD ALSO MEAN A SETBACK TO THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHET, THE TRUE SUCCESSOR TO CHRIST. ... WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD BELIEVED THAT THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS BEING KILLED BY PERSIA, IT WAS REVEALED TO HIM THAT THE PERSIAN VICTORY WAS SHORT-LIVED AND THAT WITHIN A PERIOD OF A FEW YEARS THE ROMANS WOULD CONQUER AGAIN AND DEAL A DEADLY BLOW AT THE PERSIANS."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Commentator on the english translation of the Holy Quran)
Within ten years of the revelation of this Divine prediction, the prophecy was fulfilled!
CHALLENGE OF THE QUR’AN
3. The Holy Prophet claimed that the Holy Qur'an was from God Almighty, and that it was revealed to him by inspiration. The proof of its Divine authorship is its own beauty and nature, and the circumstances in which it was promulgated. To prove the veracity of his claim, he has placed before you many Suras. Can the unbeliever produce one like it? This is a standing challenge! An eternal prophecy of mankind's inability to equal or excel, or to rival successfully any of its chapters.
Your plea, "I don't know Arabic," is useless. There are millions of Christian Arabs living today. The Christians boast that there are at least 10-15 million Coptic Christians in Egypt alone and these are not all fellaheens.1 Here is the challenge of God in His Own words —
(a) This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than Allah.2
Holy Qur'an 10:37
(b) Say: "If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support."
(SURA BANI ISRAIL) Holy Qur'an 17: 88
(c) Or do they say. "He forged it"? Say: "Bring then a Sura like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can, besides Allah, if it be that ye speak the truth!"
(SURA Y-UNUS) Holy Qur'an 10:38
(d) And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Sura like thereunto;
And call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides Allah. If your (doubts) are true.
But if ye cannot — And of a surety ye cannot —
Then fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones,— which is prepared for those who reject Faith.
(SURA BAQARA) Holy Qur'an 2:23 24
ReplyDeleteIt is now fourteen hundred years since the above challenges, but mankind has singularly failed to produce anything similar or something better. This is an Eternal Testimony of the Divine Origin of the Holy Qur'an.
1. Fellaheen: A peasant or agricultural labourer in Arab countries
2. Allah: A proper noun for God Almighty in the Semitic languages. See "What is his name?" which explains the word in detail
CHRISTIAN ARABS HAD A TRY!
The Arab Christians in the Middle East, not to be outwitted, launched a sixteen-year project lately and produced selected portions of the New Testament in Arabic, with a wholesale borrowing1 of words and phrases verbatim from the Arabic Qur'an. It is an ignoble attempt! In this un-ashamed plagiarism, every chapter of this new Arabic New Testament of theirs begin with the First verse of the Holy Qur'an —
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
(SURA FATIHA) Holy Qur'an 1:1
Can you beat that?
There are many more challenges and prophecies in the Holy Qur'an and in the Ahadith (traditions of the Prophet) which can be expounded. It is a neglected field. Perhaps books can be written on the subject. I trust that Muslim scholars will take up the challenge. But let me end this theme of prophecy with one last reference from Allah's Kalaam (the book of God).
1. "He who goes borrowing, goes a sorrowing!"
ISLAM TO PREVAIL
(e) It is He who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth.
That he may proclaim it over all religion.
Even though the associators may detest (it).
(SURA SAFE) Holy Qur'an 61:9
Within decades the above promise became true. Islam prevailed. The two superpowers of the day, the Persian and the Roman Empires crumbled at the hands of the Muslims. And for centuries the power of Islam predominated — from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Alas, the Muslims are in the doldrums today. But fear not, the world of Islam is arising. There is hope. Even non-Muslim Visionaries in the West have predicted its destiny to be in the skies.
"AFRICA IS A FAIR FIELD FOR ALL RELIGIONS, BUT THE RELIGION WHICH THE AFRICAN WILL ACCEPT, IS A RELIGION WHICH BEST SUITS HIS NEEDS: AND THAT RELIGION, EVERYONE WHO HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT SAYS IS ISLAM."
ReplyDelete"The Shape of Things to Come" KG. Wells
"IF ANY RELIGION HAS A CHANCE OF CONQUERING ENGLAND, NAY EUROPE WITHIN THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS, THAT RELIGION IS ISLAM."
George Bernard Shaw
Without any real effort on the part of the Muslims, we are told by the Westerners themselves that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world today. I hope, this pleasant news does not lull us to sleep. The promise of God is true, the destiny is there, only a little exertion is required on our part. Allah can transform nations and peoples by His Own Will, but He has given us the privilege of serving His Deen by personal self-sacrifice. To be an effective soldier in this battle, arm yourself with John 16: 7 in one or more languages, and watch how Allah fills you with more knowledge. It is our destiny to master, supercede and bulldoze every ism, never mind how much the unbeliever may be averse to the Message of Islam.
GLORIFYING JESUS (PBUH)
He (the Spirit of truth)1 shall Glorify Me (Jesus): for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16:13
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall Testify of Me.
(HOLY BIBLE) John 15:26
This promised Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth in whom Truth is personified, when he comes, will bear witness to the truthfulness of the Messiah and absolve him from the calumnies of his enemies.
This Muhummed (pbuh), Al-Amin, the Prophet of Truth, eminently succeeded in doing. He made it possible that today, a thousand million Muslims believe in Jesus Christ (pbuh) as one of the mightiest Messengers of God. They believe in his miraculous birth, which many modem day Christians, even Bishops do not believe. And they also believe in his many miracles, including those of giving life to the dead by God's leave; and healing those born blind and the lepers by God's leave. What a mighty testimony! Listen to the moving terms of the story of his Annunciation:
1. The same John who supposedly wrote this Gospel, says in 1 John 4:6 "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth from the spirit of error."
It is clearly shown here that, spirit of truth is articulated only in reference to a human being (and in the context of this study, a human prophet), not the Holy Spirit or Ghost. A spirit of truth would be a true Prophet, and a spirit of error would be a false prophet.
MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION
ReplyDeleteAnd mention in the Book, the story of Mary, when she withdrew from her people to a place In the East.
And she placed a screen to screen herself from them;
Then we sent unto her Our Spirit, that appeared to her as a man in all respects.
She said. "I take refuge in the All-Merciful from you, If you fear Allah ..,"
He said, "I am but a messenger come from your Lord, to announce to you the gift of a holy son."
She said, "How can I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"
He said, "Even so your Lord has said:
'Easy is that for Me, and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us; it is a thing decreed'."
So she conceived him, and withdrew with him to a distant place ...
(SURA MARYAM) Holy Qur'an 19: 16-22
At the present moment a billion Muslims throughout the world accept the Immaculate Conception of Jesus (pbuh) on the authority of Muhummed (pbuh) alone. Jesus (pbuh), his mother Mary and the whole Christian world can never thank Al-AMIN — the Spirit of Truth, enough.
JEWISH RESPONSE TO JESUS
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I (Jesus) have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gatheretb her chickens under her wings, but ye would not let me!
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 23:37
That mighty Messenger of God went after the Jews like a hen after her chickens, but they turned on him like vultures to tear him into pieces. Not satisfied with their relentless assaults and harassment and the eventual attempt on his life1; they charged his mother for having ill-begotten him in sin.
That they (the Jews) rejected Faith;
and they uttered against Mary a grave false charge.
(SURA NISAA) Holy Qur'an 4: 156
What was that "grave false charge"? — The nearest to uttering the actual calumny, Muhummed (pbuh) the true "Glorifier" of Jesus (John 16: 13) is made to record.
"O sister of Aaron! thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"
(SURA MARYAM) Holy Qur'an 19: 28
1. For a detailed record of how God foiled the Jewish plot on the life of the Messiah, see "Crucifixion or Cruci-fiction?"
WHAT SAY THE TALMUDISTS
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish charge of the illegitimacy of Jesus (pbuh) and the adultery of Mary is referred to here as an insinuation of the Jews, questioning Mary's chastity. The Holy Qur'an does not stoop down to even reproducing the actual monstrous slander. Now compare this Quranic terminology with what the erudite and famous Rev. Dummelow, backed by no less than a team of sixteen Christian divines, all Reverends and D.D.s; as to their choice of words in recording the calumny of the enemies of Christ:
THE JEWISH TALMUD1STS SAID, ‘THE SON OF THE ADULTERESS' (I.E. OF THE VIRGIN MARY) BROUGHT MAGIC OUT OF EGYPT. BY CUTTINGS WHICH HE HAD MADE IN HIS FLESH.’ ‘JESUS PRACTICED MAGIC AND DECEIVED. AND DROVE ISRAEL TO IDOLATORY.’ IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTICE THAT MAHOMET INDIGNANTLY REPUDIATED THESE JEWISH CALUMNIES." (Emphasis added)
Dummefow's Bible Commentary page 668
EVANGELIST DITTOS JEWS
Josh Me Dowell. described as a graduate of Wheaton College and magna cum laude graduate of Talbot Theological Seminary, and who is reputed to have spoken to more than Five million students and faculty at over 550 universities in 53 countries, seems to have done more research than the whole galaxy of Biblical scholars mentioned above, on the subject of the Jewish Talmud regarding the birth of his "Lord."
In his book — "Evidence that Demands a Verdict," just to prove that Jesus (pbuh) was not a myth but a historical person, he quotes extensively from the Jewish Talmud without any inhibitions. I give you below a few brief excerpts from pages 85/86 of his book.
"Tol’doth Yeshu. JESUS IS REFERRED TO AS ‘BEN PANDERA.’ "1
Yeb.IV3;49a:
"R. SHIMEON BEN AZZAI SAID (CONCERNING JESUS): ‘I FOUND A GENEALOGICAL ROLL IN JERUSALEM WHEREIN WAS RECORDED, SUCH-AN-ONE IS A BASTARD OF AN ADULTERESS.’ "
Joseph Klausner adds to the above:
"CURRENT EDITIONS OF THE Mishnah, ADD: TO SUPPORT THE WORDS OF R. YEHOSHUA' (WHO IN THE SAME Mishnah, SAYS: WHAT IS A BASTARD? EVERYONE WHOSE PARENTS ARE LIABLE TO DEATH BY THE BETH DIN). THAT JESUS IS HERE REFERRED TO SEEMS TO BE BEYOND DOUBT..."
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1. "BEN PANDERA:" Means – son of Pandera. A Roman soldier alleged by the Jews to have raped Mary to produce her illegitimate offspring. (God forbid!) May he forgive us for even reproducing such blasphemies.
MISSIONARY LOLLS HIS TONGUE
Josh McDowelL the great evangelist, "born-again" Christian; worshipper of Christ, filled with the Holy Ghost (?) lolls his tongue when quoting calumnies of the enemies against his Lord and God — Jesus! And the Christian world laps it up. His books are bestsellers in Christendom. A taste for Filth and insults has been created in the votaries of Christ. I refuse to quote further from that filthy narration. If Jesus (pbuh) has such devoted friends (?). what need is there for him to have enemies.
Muhummed (pbuh) really was the true Friend, the Comforter, the Helper, the Advocate, the Glorifier, the Testifier of these prophecies in John chapters 14, 15 and 16. Let me repeat the ungrudging tribute of his enemies to this Benefactor of Jesus (pbuh) his mother Mary and humanity at large: "It is interesting to notice that Mahomet1 indignantly repudiated these Jewish calumnies." (Rev. Dummelow and his associates).
1. "Mahomet": It is a pity that scholars of Christianity of the highest eminence still misspell the name of the Holy Prophet, even at the end of the twentieth century.
CHAPTER SIX
ReplyDeleteExtremism Condemned
We will now allow the Spirit of Truth to lay the Ghost of Jewish and Christian extremism, and put the records straight regarding their controversies about the Messiah. The Jews said that Jesus (pbuh) was the illegitimate son of Mary because he could not point a finger to a father. The Christians for the same reason made him into a God and the "begotten" son of God. Just one verse to debunk this lie!
O People of the Book!
Do not go to extremes in your religion: nor say of Allah anything but the truth.
Verily, Christ1 Jesus the son of Mary was no more than a messenger of Allah, and His Word which he bestowed upon 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 your Allah is One God:
Glory be to Him:
(Far Exalted is He) above having
a son. To Him belongs all
things in the heavens and the earth.
And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
(SURA NISAA) Holy Qur’an 4:171
1. Christ: In the Arabic text of the Holy Qur’an the word is Masih, which is the same as the Hebrew word Messiah.
Note 657/6 on the above verse
Just as a foolish servant may go wrong by excess of zeal for his master, so in religion people's excesses may lead them to blasphemy or a spirit the very opposite of religion.
The Jewish excesses in the direction of formalism, racialism, exclusiveness, and rejection of Christ Jesus have been denounced in many places in the Holy Qur'an.
Here the Christian attitude is condemned, which raises Jesus to an equality with God; in some cases venerates Mary almost to idolatry; attributes a physical son to God; and invents the doctrine of the Trinity, opposed to all reason, which according to the Athanasian Creed, unless a man believes, he is doomed to hell for ever."
The attributes of Christ are mentioned here:
ReplyDelete1. That he was the son of a woman, Mary, and therefore a man.
2. But an apostle, a man with a mission from God, and therefore entitled to honour.
3. A Word bestowed on Mary, for he was created by God's word "Be" (kun) and he was. H.Q. 3:59.
4. A spirit proceeding from God, but not God: his life and his mission were more limited than in the case of some other apostles, though we must pay equal honour to him as a man of God.
The doctrines of Trinity, equality with God and sonship, are repudiated as blasphemies. God is independent of all needs and has no need of a son to manage His affairs."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
NOTHING FROM SELF
You give this Spirit of Truth (Muhummed pbuh) too much credit, when you allege that he wrote the preceding verses and further authored more than six thousand other verses of the Noble Qur’an.
He cries to us again and again in the Book of God, that this is not my handiwork — "IT IS NO LESS THAN AN INSPIRATION SENT DOWN TO HIM (Muhummed)" (Holy Qur’an 53:4). Exactly as it was prophesied by Jesus (pbuh)
... for be shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak...
(HOLY BIBLE) John 16: 13
CHRISTIAN "TRILEMMA"
ReplyDeleteAll the testification and glorification by this "another Comforter," does not placate the Christians. Because Muhummed (pbuh) did not pander to their prejudices. To them glorification meant to deify Jesus (pbuh) — to make him into a God. Instead of solving their dilemma whether Jesus (pbuh) "died" on the cross as a man, or as a God? They have now invented a trilemma. A word not to be found in any dictionary in the world. Josh McDowell the Travelling Representative for Campus Crusade for Christ International, in his book — "Evidence that Demands a Verdict," actually uses his new inspired (by the "Holy Ghost"?) conundrum1 for his chapter 7 — "TRILEMMA -Lord, Liar or Lunatic?" You have now guessed it! The three L's! He wants his readers to answer whether Jesus Christ is your LORD (God), or was he a LIAR, or a LUNATIC? Very ingenious, you will agree! No Muslim could utter that Jesus Christ was a liar, or a lunatic: then what? Its more than any dilemma! It’s actually blasphemy of the highest degree. But he is blinded by his preconceived notions. Roger Bacon, the philosopher who was bom too soon, rightly said: "IT IS EASIER FOR A MAN TO BURN DOWN HIS OWN HOUSE THAN TO GET RID OF HIS PREJUDICES."
1. Conundrum: A puzzling problem or question admitting of no satisfactory solution.
WISDOM OF THE CHILD
To say of any man that he is God, the "begotten" son of God, or that his father is God; is not an honour but an insult. A French peasant understood this distinction better than the millions of erudite Christian scholars walking the earth today.
It is reputed that Louis XV, King of France was a very lecherous person. No woman was safe from his debaucheries. After his death, when his son was well settled on the throne, a rumour spread around Paris that an exact duplicate of the young king was seen roaming about the capital. The King was naturally intrigued to see his double. It did not take the King’s men long to have the rustic from the countryside presented before the King. The King was amused by the stark resemblance to himself and his late father. He was tickled to have a dig at the poor farmer. He politely asked. "Did your mother ever visit Paris during my father's reign?" "No!" the rustic replied, "But my father did!" This was a death-knell for the King, but he had asked for it!
DONT GO TO EXTREMES
ReplyDeleteThe rank hatred of the Jews which lead them to slander Jesus and his mother is bad, and the over infatuation of the Christians for Christ is also bad. Muhummed (pbuh) the Messenger of God condemned both these extremes, and elevated Jesus (pbuh) to his true status, as the Messiah, a great prophet and reformer. Love him, respect him, revere him, follow him; but do not worship him! For worship is due to God alone, the Father in heaven: ALLAH!'
This is true glorification — for,
"He shall glorify me!"
John 16:14
Historically, morally and prophetically, Muhummed (pbuh) the last and Final Messenger of God, "The Spirit of Truth," is the only one to guide mankind into all truth. He is pre-eminently the Natural Successor to Christ.
Your further inquiries, comments and criticisms are welcome. Don’t just sit there, for the sake of God, act now!
AHMED DEEDAT
(Servant of Islam)
EPILOGUE
ReplyDeleteDear reader, it has been suggested that some Christian propagandists might lure you from your exposition of the preceding pages, by dangling before you the "Pentecostal" experience.
Pentecost was a Jewish festival day celebrated on the Fiftieth day after the beginning of corn harvesting. The Jews gathered in Jerusalem from far and wide for the feast Peter with "the Eleven"1 together with others were in one place, when suddenly they heard the roaring of a mighty windstorm in the skies above them where they were sitting. This electrified the people and they began to "speak in tongues," in dialects and languages foreign to themselves. Some marvelled while others mocked, saying, "They're drunk, that's all!" It reminded them of the "babbling" at Babel (Genesis 11:9).
The Christian missionaries contend that that was the fulfilment of what Jesus (pbuh) had prophecised in John chapters 14, 15 and 16. Astounding as the whole drama may sound, Peter, the one, the Master had appointed to "feed my lambs .. . feed my sheep" (John 21: 15-16), rose to defend the disciples, saying. "These men are not drunk! It's much too early for that! People don’t get drunk so early in the morning!"
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel .. 2
(HOLY BIBLE) Acts 2: 16
Pentecost was the fulfilment of the prophecy of the prophet Joel and not of any predictions of Jesus (pbuh). Christendom believes that Peter was inspired to record the same. Both obviously tickled by the Holy Ghost! Not a single word3 is recorded anywhere as to what these apostles of Christ had babbled or murmured on Pentecost day, yet as to the Comforter, he was to guide mankind "into all Truth!" Proving once again that the Comforter is not the Holy Ghost!
1. "The Eleven" (Acts 2: 14). No Bible commentator dare discuss as to who these eleven were, because Judas the traitor was long since dead. The Holy Ghost failed to inform Luke. That at best there could only be ten beside Peter and not eleven!
2. "Prophet Joel:" In "The New English Bible." published by The Bible Societies in association with the Oxford University Press in their fourteenth impression of 1984, expunged the name JOEL, without an apology. He was too insignificant (?) a prophet, having written only two pages in a thousand of the Bible. If Christendom can edit out names of their own prophets, what will they not do to names like Ishmael and Ahmed?
3. On the contrary, hear what Muhummed (pbuh) the Comforter uttered in his trances in fulfilment of the prophecies. See The Holy Qur’an online.
THE END
*Dr Maurice Bucaille, the French author of the book "Bible, the Quran and Science"; wrote a sub-chapter entitled "Jesus's Last Dialogues. The Paraclete of John's Gospel". He questions the notion of the comforter being the Holy Ghost. He does not set out to prove that the Comforter was any specific historical person.But he rules out the possibility of it being a Ghost; or anything else than a man. The chapter is very small, and it is worth reading as a post-conclusion to this great book by Ahmed Deedat. Click here to read the chapter.
CENON BIBE:
ReplyDeleteKung KONTEKSTO noong 600 AD ang PAG-UUSAPAN ay OPO, HARD COPY po IYAN.
Muslim;
Ano daw po? Hard Copy daw po? sinabi po ba dyan na hard copy ang nabanggit o binanggit na libro? i mean kong detalyado po bang sinabi na ang nasabing libro ay Hard Copy? ang libro po mapa hard copy man yan o soft copy pa man yan eh libro pa rin yan! at sa kapanahonan po nila noon ang naturang libro ay nasa kanilang memorya at kaya nilang itong irecite, i mean kayang irecite ang kabuohan ng nasabing libro! parang computer natin ngayon! so wala na po tayong question dyan dahil nakakaunawa tayo! pero sa isang tao na nagtangatangahan eh di talaga alam yan! ang alam lang marahil sa mga nagtatangatangahan na iyon ay ANG TATLO naging IISA! o di kaya ang IISA ay naging TATLO! yon po bang parang sarili nila mismo ay GinaGago nila? ganoon po sila kong lokohin nila ang mga sarili nila! pasintabi po!
Cenon Bibe;
Noon po KASI ay WALA PANG KONSEPTO ng LIBRO na "DIGITAL."
Muslim;
DIGITAL? Sa mga tao po noon marahil wala pa nga po! eh sa kapanahonan po ba natin kailan lang po ba tayo naging DIGITAL or Computer age? kamakailan din lang naman po di po ba? pero po nasa MEMORYA na ng Tao noon ang nasabing LIBRO at inirirecite na nila ito, marami na ang nakapag-recite noon ng nasabing LIBRO kahit noon nabubuhay pa ang propeta! pero ang nasabing libro po ay ipinagkaloob ng Dios sa Tao, galing po sa Dios ang nasabing Libro! at sya ang higit na nakakaalam kong papaano nya ito ipagkakaloob sa tao upang maging gabay at maging panuntunan ng kanilang buhay noon (actually po, mula noon magpahanggang ngayon! at ang nasabing libro po ay walang pagbabago ang mensahe na nilalaman)
Cenon Bibe;
Siguro naman po ay COMMON SENSE na lang IYAN at HINDI NA NINYO ITINANONG.
Muslim;
Ah yan ang wala ka brod yang sinasabi mong COMMON SENSE! kasi kong may COMMON SENSE ka eh di sana tingin mo sa ISA eh dapat IISA lang talaga! pero ang IISA ay TITINGNAN mong TATLO eh HILO ka nga! at ang TATLO ay TITINGNAN mong IISA ay baga DULING ka siguro! kaya patingin ka na sa pinakamalapit na Doctor!
Hanggang sa susunod po! at mabuhay tayong buo ang paningin at hindi mga duling! hahahahaha!
As Mr. Deedat Quoted from the Bible;
ReplyDeleteMatthew 10:5-6
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying,
Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, 1 and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go ye rather unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.
(HOLY BIBLE) Matthew 10:5-6
5. "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not":
6. "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel".
CENON BIBE:
That CLAIM is IGNORANCE.
Muslim;
You see!? dear readers of this blog!? was it the words of Mr. Deedat dear readres of this blog? was the above verses an invention of Mr. Deedat? No! it was from your Bible and nonetheless its Jesus words! as according to Cenon Bibe that this Claimed of Jesus Christ is Ignorant! bakit parang nagulat po yata itong si Cenon Bibe sa nasabing talata mga giliw na tag subaybay? hindi ba nya napag-aralan ang nasabing talata bago sya maging isang Bible expert? You see now dear readers of this blog? Cenon Bibe cannot swallow the TRUTH of what Jesus is saying here, that you can read from the Bible! At madiin pa nyang sinasabi na THAT claim WAS AND IGNORANCE CLAIMED of Jeus pa daw! Tama po ba sa isang Kristyano na Katulad nya ang sabihin ang ganon kay Kristo na kinikilala pa nyang dios? At tama po bang sabihin sa o marinig natin mula sa isang nagpakilalang Kristyan ang ganon na NAKASULAT sa kanyang BIBLIYA?
Nagtatanong lamang po! Nakakagulat po kasi na ang ganoon SALITA ay manggagaling pa sa isang katulad nitong si Cenon Bibe na nagpakilala pa man ding isang Kristyan!