ArchivedPeople Of The Book problem...Peace to all, Now, we all agree with that.. ie that there is ONE GOD and acknowledge His right to judge the earth. Now, a couple of questions to help me discover the place of the "People of the Book" in Islam... 1. When you think of the Bible, you think only of those parts of it that "sound" like the Qur'an to be perhaps the Word of God as it was revealed/given to the Prophets. * Now.. when you think of the "al-lawh, al-muhfuz," (85:22, 3:7, 13:39, 43:4) what does that mean to you in terms of revelation ? 2. When the Qur'an uses the phrase "People of the Book" what does that mean to you personally? 3. When you read this , In my understanding you understand that to mean 1. All that Allah requires to worship Him properly 2. Points ahead to a time when Muhammad would come as the final prophet. Now.. in my understanding, the term "all previous messages" means, just that .. ALL previous messages. One God, can you tell me please, what other messages Muslims believe the other revelations consisited of.. since there must be more than these 4. We have discussed this a little before, but in Sura 10:94 Allah says to Muhammad Now as you said, this follows a discussion on the truth of the Exodus and all that happened to Moses. Now, if as you suggest, the reason that Muhammad was told to go and talk to those who read the previous scripture to receive confirmation of his message about the Exodus.. don't you think, that given the history of Jewish/muslim relations, this was a bit risky? why would Allah send Muhammad back to talk to the very ones who had supposedly corrupted the message to receive confirmation of the message he was having doubts over? 5. That the message that was sent down was from God is not under dispute by any of us i think, and here again is the affirmation that Muhammad should return to the People of the Book, who supposedly are looking at corrupted teachings, for confirmation of his own message. I'll close here, so you can answer these questions and comments, but I have a couple more I'll put in the next post. Once I have your replies, we can discuss fully from the perspective of understanding what each other believes. God bless Carol |
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