Christian/Muslim Threadsa must readYes, and I hope you realize that it was recited by the companions and memorized by them in the Prophet's lifetime. The entire Qur'an is recited during the month of Ramadan during prayers even. Welcome back bro. You asked this question on page four or five of this thread and I still think you're coming with a false understanding of what Abu Bakr vs. Uthman did. The collection of the Qur'an's chapters into a bound book, instead of leaves with no particular order (because each Chapter is stand-alone), was such a major event because it hadn't happened in the life of the Prophet. In fact, this is known in jurisprudence as "bid3aa hasanah" or "good innovation" since binding the book does not contradict any precept in islam, even though it is an innovation since it wasn't done during the Prophet's time. Muslims highlight this event, actually, to show the permissibility of other innovations that don't contradict religion. You approach as if it's a big deal because something wrong happened, whereas Muslims focus on it to show that it was a major jurisprudential decision that was taken. Take a look at this to understand the deception of calling the Abu Bakr event and the Uthman event "two different collections": http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/ ... ffery.html and the bottom half of this, after the big space: http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/ ... ajjaj.html Not really. I've always mentioned that I disagree with the Jews on theological points. However, Believer is saying that Jews are blind because they misinterpret their own texts whereas the Jews say that the Missionaries are mistranslating the texts and taking pronouns to mean what they want them to mean i.e. Jesus (pbuh). I'd never say that the Jews are entirely correct, but I am showing that their interpretation encompasses some Truths about the nature of God, but fails on the recognition of Jesus the Messiah, whereas the Christian account encompasses the Truth of Jesus' identity as the Messiah, but fails on its interpreting the nature of God. Yusuf Ali is a reliable English translation. I can read Arabic so it's not necessary to use a translation. Qur'an (6:75-83) http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moiz/qura ... &sh=1&ph=1 No not at all. Whether or not you believe that the Message itself is demon-inspired is where your choice comes in. However, the point is that assuredly the Qur'an you have today are the very words uttered by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It traces back to Muhammad (pbuh). Whether or not you accept this as revelation is up to you. It's like how Moses spoke of the Prophets before him. Yes, and drinking wine and eating the flesh of swine and missing your prayers each day and not fasting the month of Ramadan. Everyone is accountable for what they did or failed to do as religion in the sight of your Lord is Islam. Right and that's the choice one makes. However, the Qur'anic text we know today was written, though not ordered, in the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Not really. It would be circular logic to believe in a document that isn't linked back to a Prophet. Otherwise you have to say something like "I have faith that the document was not distorted even though it was never seen or written by the Prophet AND I have faith that this prophet was a prophet sent by God. So many people I know need to have faith just that their documents are authentic, which is circular logic. Be careful bro, non-muslims will tell you that Islam is a religion in which good works necessarily lead you to heaven. This isn't true. One's belief and intentions supercede one's actions, and God's Mercy in even purifying us and allowing us to enter heaven supercede's one's belief and intentions. Belief in God is a perpetual thing for which we are accountable. Nobody in the world can do enough good deeds and works, perpetually, to counter-act a lifetime of perpetual disbelief or associative worship of God except that God grants them leave. The same goes for intentions. There are some who, even if they were given an eternity, would never strive to know God, they would remain in their ignorance and stubbornness or arrogance all their lives. They may live their entire life having made no sincere effort to know God. They are rewarded for their intentions with an eternity. Read this to learn about Satan from the Islamic perspective, it's a great article: http://www.ymofmd.com/books/satanmisleadings.pdf I don't think we're on the same level, no. No father will love their child's hate for them. Imagine a son walking up to his father and declaring with full conviction that he hates him. When will the father ever say "you know what son, this feeling of hate you have for me, I love this" I'd try to be very certain that what I'd read was true, and where it is, what the details were before I rejected a Prophet of God. You can even go watch a PBS documentary about Islam to know that the Muslims were boycotted, starved, and tortured for their beliefs. The hadith texts aren't historical documents, they are documents that record the Prophet's sayings regarding religious rulings and theological points or rites of worship. But here's one: Volume 6, Book 60, Number 40: Narrated Nafi (through another group of sub-narrators): A man came to Ibn 'Umar and said, "O Abu Abdur Rahman! What made you perform Hajj in one year and Umra in another year and leave the Jihad for Allah' Cause though you know how much Allah recommends it?" Ibn 'Umar replied, "O son of my brother! Islam is founded on five principles, i.e. believe in Allah and His Apostle, the five compulsory prayers, the fasting of the month of Ramadan, the payment of Zakat, and the Hajj to the House (of Allah)." The man said, "O Abu Abdur Rahman! Won't you listen to why Allah has mentioned in His Book: 'If two groups of believers fight each other, then make peace between them, but if one of then transgresses beyond bounds against the other, then you all fight against the one that transgresses. (49.9) and:--"And fight them till there is no more affliction (i.e. no more worshiping of others along with Allah)." Ibn 'Umar said, "We did it, during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle when Islam had only a few followers. A man would be put to trial because of his religion; he would either be killed or tortured. But when the Muslims increased, there was no more afflictions or oppressions." The man said, "What is your opinion about 'Uthman and 'Ali?" Ibn 'Umar said, "As for 'Uthman, it seems that Allah has forgiven him, but you people dislike that he should be forgiven. And as for 'Ali, he is the cousin of Allah's Apostle and his son-in-law." Then he pointed with his hand and said, "That is his house which you see." Volume 4, Book 56, Number 809: Narrated Khabbab bin Al-Arat: We complained to Allah's Apostle (of the persecution inflicted on us by the infidels) while he was sitting in the shade of the Ka'ba, leaning over his Burd (i.e. covering sheet). We said to him, "Would you seek help for us? Would you pray to Allah for us?" He said, "Among the nations before you a (believing) man would be put in a ditch that was dug for him, and a saw would be put over his head and he would be cut into two pieces; yet that (torture) would not make him give up his religion. His body would be combed with iron combs that would remove his flesh from the bones and nerves, yet that would not make him abandon his religion. By Allah, this religion (i.e. Islam) will prevail till a traveler from Sana (in Yemen) to Hadrarmaut will fear none but Allah, or a wolf as regards his sheep, but you (people) are hasty. If we take a look at Jesus' (pbuh) Prophethood, before he ascended to heaven to Christian community was no larger than the Muslim community in Meccah. Muhammad, like Jesus, preached openly and in secret during these parallel times. Had either Jesus fought the romans or Muhammad fought the pagans in Meccah, they both would have been annihilated because this wasn't God's plan. However, any fighting began after the Muslims had migrated to Medina, and this was while there were Muslims in Meccah either living in secret or being boycotted and oppressed. That's why Jihad takes place, until no man is oppressed for his belief. Jesus, of course, ascended before the Christian community could parallel the Muslim one in Medina, with respect to the Romans. Had the command come from God, and the Christians been able, then the Christians would have defended their brethren openly against the Romans. Yeah I missed that, I should have though. Those phrases mean "upon him be the peace [of God]" and "upon whom be the peace and blessings of God". Are you jealous of the Prophet because you disbelieve in his prophet-hood or do you disbelieve in his prophet-hood because you are jealous that you have to obey the Prophet? The Prophet also was obligated to pray throughout the night as well as fast continuous days for his being a Prophet, not too many are jealous of these obligations. Here's the exegesis of Surah 66, the incident I think you're referring to: http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=66&tid=54321 Well God only make revelations to Prophets and the Prophet Muhammad is the last and final Messenger. No, the Jews clearly mixed truth with falsehood, it's not Boolean as you make it out to be. Jesus (pbuh) was clearly the prophesied Messiah, but the Torah had been so distorted with altered criteria for the Messiah that Jesus (pbuh) no longer fit the description as far as they were concerned. While he was performing miracles, they were complaining about how he was breaking their man-made laws in doing so, utter myopia. However, instead of writing that they rejected Jesus (pbuh) and helped others try to crucify him because some recognized that he was returning them to the true laws and creed of Moses (pbuh), they wrote in the Talmud that they rejected him because he was committing heresy, and lying, and performing magic, and making insults about Mary's chastity. They wanted to give the Jews a believable explanation as to why they rejected the Messiah, they weren't about to write "because he exposed how far our faith had deviated". This is a prophecy, not a command. He was a Jew in that he followed the Mosaic laws, not the laws that existed and were practiced by most Jews in his time. Except this wasn't a matter of mere disbelief. The poetry wasn't a few verses of "well to you be your way and to me mine, I disbelieve". When people mix truth with falsehood, and slander God's religion in order to distort the message of God and purposefully misguide people, then these people don't fall under the umbrella of "free speech," they have openly declared themselves as enemies of God. Imagine Jesus (pbuh) during one of his sermons to the apostles and a deviant who would yell at the top of his voice to ridicule Jesus's words and drown him out, then bely what he had said to would-be believers outside. No not at all, but an excellent question I have to say. Yes Jesus was sinless and he never uttered a lie. But at the same time he never was a part of any "deception". You base what Jesus said and did on the Biblical account, but you don't know that this is what Jesus actually said and did. Jesus' true followers all knew the creed they had been taught by Jesus and it didn't revolve around Jesus' future crucifixion. That's why the only thing that's moot are the later interpretations of the crucifixion into tenets of Trinitarian Christian faith. The body removed from the crucifix was not Jesus', as the whole crucifixion of Jesus himself did not occur, but was only made to appear to them so, and for anyone who actually followed Jesus' message, it had no bearing on the tenets of faith even if some BELIEVED it was him that had been crucified, because Jesus (pbuh) had never placed this event in the context of the body of religious teachings. It was only later that people ascribed meaning to it from assuming that Jesus (pbuh) had died on the cross. Well I don't really know any songs like that, but I think it's sad that you want to fuel your hate of Islam with the things that Arabs or Muslims shouldn't do anyway. "Muslims do this therefore Islam is bad" ideology is foolish, because anyone can tell you that if and when people preach hate, then it's not Islamic. Plus it's not like hate is monopolized: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=0§ion ... m=6&y=2003 True, but in order to make that comparison someone first has to be sure he knows what Jesus taught. Otherwise their benchmark is warped and they reject what Jesus actually taught. Oh don't get me wrong, I completely advocate Shariah laws, I just don't think that Saudi Arabia is implementing them properly. If it was, it would need to punish the Royal Family first and foremost for the billions of dollars it embezzles from the country. Not a law in Shariah Can't be illegal to believe what you believe unless you openly declare it, which I don't think anyone would need to if they are truly worshipping God and not doing it to please people. True, it is not lawful to build a place of worship besides a Mosque on Muslim land unless it is purchased by a non-Muslim and then they can do what they want with it. Not sure how someone can be caught in the act of conversion, but if someone openly declares their disbelief and begins to prosthelitize falsehood against Islam, that's where I think there are problems. I saw that actually, not that I think the Taliban know what a true Islamic state is, but we never actually found out what that execution was for. There's a big difference between being executed for allegedly converting from Islam to being executed for having murdered your husband. Right, nobody can be forced to accept Islam. You should, it owns the theory of evolution in every way. Once Believer reads it, he'll be convinced as well. Except we aren't working from non-divine texts. And even if we were, earlier doesn't always mean more authentic. But I don't believe that Jesus (pbuh) died, my understanding of those lines would be limited to divine revelation. Don't worry bro, I'm the one who notes that because the Jews lied about the true identity of Jesus (pbuh) that they're writings can't be trusted. I don’t base any of my beliefs on modern Jewish Scripture. All I was telling you was the texts on which you disagree have two interpretations, because they're human texts after all. Don't get me wrong, the apostles of Jesus are mentioned in the Qur'an, I don't claim that prophets wrote lies about Jesus, but the key is to know who was and wasn't an apostle, hypocrites are always rife in the age of Prophets. Read the above link I posted at the beginning. None of God's prophets ever committed polytheism or worshipped anyone but God. They are ranks above normal people and are protected spiritually from misguidance. 1) but they don't exactly match the contradicting accounts of the infancy gospels 2) the stories were, yes, but that doesn't negate the fact that parts of the accounts could be true 3) the earlier gospels describe other miracles of Jesus which nobody denies, but to say that one account of Jesus' birth place is silly is being subjective, but I'll give you that one, except the Qur'an confirms the second account, which is why I believe it, not because it's partly mentioned in an infancy gospel, or because the earlier gospels are "less silly" As a man of reason, you should accept the more authentic account, not necessarily the earlier one. For example, those infancy gospels could have been written by secluded believers of Jesus, much as the essenes were secluded and are often said to have written the dead sea scrolls. They may have passed the stories and miracles of Jesus by oral tradition before committing them to writing. What indication do we have that the Torah of today was the same one that Moses held in his hand? Correct, but one should first be able to pinpoint exactly WHERE a text came from, THEN decide whether to believe it or not. They shouldn't have to first have faith that it came from a man and hasn't been changed, THEN have faith that he was a Prophet. That's resting faith on faith, which is doubt. God is unchanging and is independent of his creations. http://www.islam101.com/tauheed/AllahNames.htm It's not obvious bro, you only think that because you read it in the Bible. But if you knew that the Bible was never seen by Jesus, and that Jesus never said all of the things that the Bible claims he did, you wouldn't think that Jesus was the Lord either. You think that by not believing Jesus is the Lord, that you are calling Jesus a liar. On the contrary, it's because Jesus never said this about himself that one shouldn't believe it. Right, except from a technical standpoint, to love something is to love everything that it is, and "to love him" means to "love his hate for me" as well. It's a technical point, we basically differ in that I would say "you love everything about it and everything good for him, EXCEPT his sinfulness and his hate" Yeah that's it, you just can't love their hate of God, or their sinfulness itself, you SHOULD feel very sorry for them as you would a sick person That's good, but nobody "hates the Christians". It's that nobody can love a Christian's ascribing partners in worship to God. That's not true, bro. But it's so different than that. We know Baha'uallah is a false prophet because of what we know he said. But you think Muhammad is a false prophet because he contradicts what you THINK Jesus said, but if you knew what Jesus said, you would realize that they are brothers in faith. Actually, Jesus (pbuh) himself lived by the strict laws of Moses. The Essenes followed John the Baptist and he was among them. They weren't an unrighteous group as you think. We're saying the same thing then, so long as you separate the sin and hate from the person that you love. You love them except for those things in them. Muslims believe they have the absolute Truth. So it's different when someone converts TO Islam than when someone converts away. For clear reasons. It was to differentiate between people according to taxes and prevent espionage. You think it's ok for someone to dress up like a Hassidic Jew and walk among Hassidic Jews to deceive them? It's not on top of every mosque. But when it is, it's supposed to symbolize the lunar calendar. Besides, it's not like the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) prayed in a mosque like that, or that he ever ordered that mosques be built with that thing. Yeah that's ok, but you can't weep and cry and wail during a funeral because you're bawling. It's a sign in distrust of God's mercy to the deceased. Whoa whoa whoa, hold on. First of all the Kaabaa is not a pagan shrine, it was built by Abraham as commanded by God, and the pagan later hijacked it. Second of all, Muslims don't believe that God's presence exists inside the Kaabaa. The Kaabaa is the "qiblah" the direction towards which one prays to God, it doesn't mean that's where God is. Noone would ever compare minority rights and pogroms and persectuion in Christendom to minorities rights in Islam. Yes, and he IS the Messiah. Ok but you shouldn't compare God to His own creations. No way bro. Check this out www.darwinismrefuted.com Those hominids that evolutions claim are predecessors to humans, didn't even evolve from each other, and are said to have CO-EXISTED in different parts of the world. Peace bros |
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